SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The gas pump is a brilliant orange in the October sun, but a closer look as Bill Shea's hand moves down its glossy sheen reveals the brush marks. It was hand-painted when it ...

Something about old gas pumps pleases me. I think of them as elder statesmen, as senior citizens left behind by the rush of time itself. When I see a proud old pump, its dispensing days behind it, I ...