City Classics - 401 - Structure, Building, Commercial, Gas Station - Commercial Structures

Specific Item Information: Beginning in the late 1930's, these gleaming white porcelain paneled gas stations could be seen on every corner from coast-to-coast. Many can still be found today serving a variety of uses. Size: 3 1/4 L x 2 1/8 W x 1 1/4 H

Road Name History: Commercial structures are any buildings or other man-made structures whose principal purpose is trade. These can be high-rise officer towers, gas stations or fruit stands. Any structure where end-user customers come to buy things from sellers of that product or service are consider commercial structures.

This group will therefore include quite large as well as quite small buildings. Models of these buildings might be kits or pre-assembled. They might be painted or undecorated. They might come with a host of accessories and figures or they might be fairly Spartan.