Picture Credits: (1) The Greenbelt cooperative Gasoline and Service Station.35 (2) Advertisement from the Greenbelt Cooperator.36 (3) Car Jack, in the front closet at the Greenbelt Museum. 37 (4) 'Device for adding water to a car battery', also in the front closet at the Greenbelt Museum. 38 (5) Funnel, in the front closet at the Greenbelt Museum. 39
Among the other cooperative ventures in Greenbelt was the Greenbelt Service
Station.40 As with all of the
cooperatives in the town, the Service Station boasted very affordable
prices, as it was not run for profit. Some of the services provided by
the Greenbelt Service Station included:
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In addition, Washington D.C. companies had good and services available to
Greenbelters at reasonable prices, and also posted ads in the Cooperator:
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The Greenbelt Museum has, as a part of their "closet" exhibit, a collection
of automobile service tools in their front closet. One is a car jack,
similar in design to those used today to change tires. A second is a funnel;
while funnels come in many sizes and are made of many different materials for
different purposes, the funnel in the exhibit is consistent in both size
(it is approximately 5 inches in diameter) and materials (metallic) to
suggest that its placement with automotive tools is appropriate. The third
is labeled as a "device for adding water to a car battery". Today's car
batteries also require a periodic check of their water levels.