Today, full-service gas stations have largely gone the way of drive-in movie theatres and travel agents: While they're not entirely gone, pumping your own gas is certainly a more common practice. The slow death of full-service gas stations began in 1947 when Los Angeles gas station operator...
Thousands flocked to the church of the "Latter Day Saints," who emigrated to Missouri, where their offenses against society created a civil war that was suppressed by military force. The people charged the Mormons with all sorts of crimes. Dissentions arose among the "Saints" themselves, and ...