Do you know where the first automobile pulled up to get the first tankful of gas?
It was at a pharmacy in Wiesloch, Germany in 1888, where Bertha Benz (yes, that Benz) stopped on her way from Mannheim to Pforzheim in the first automobile. (She didn’t ask the pharmacist to clean the windshield because there wasn’t one.)
Other places where people stopped in the early days included general and hardware stores and blacksmith shops.
But then the oil industry quickly took over from the pharmacies,....