File:TootAnKumIn.jpg
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| Description | "Texaco Co. Sullivan & Helan Staler". Amoco gasoline station at 14th and Belmont streets N.W. in Washington's Mount Pleasant neighborhood. Opened in July 1925. "Toot - an - Kum - In" is a pun on the name of Pharoh Tutankamen or "King Tut", whose recently discovered tomb was in the news; slangy meaning "sound horn and enter". Period car visible, 1925 Buick (?) | |||
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| Source | National Photo Company photograph via Library of Congress website [1]. Border cropped and converted from TIFF to .jpg before upload. Additional info on date and location via Shorpy.com [2] | |||
| Author | Uncredited photographer in employ of National Photo Company. | |||
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