Hitting a snag on the Potomac’s annual shad run
to catch shad. It’s still being made today.
The hooks, weighted with lead, would be thrown into the river and reeled in. They were true to their name, snagging shad indiscriminately. Jim said he’d sell hundreds of snag hooks every season. The gas station also did a brisk business in soft drinks and homemade sandwiches wrapped in wax paper.When it became dark, Jim could look down from the ledge upon which the gas station sat and see fires glowing along both sides of the riverbank below.
“It was just a teeny old gas station with two or three pumps,” he said. “It was my job to pump gas. I had to wash the windshield, check the water in the battery, check the oil and, if asked, check the tire pressure. If I didn’t wash the windshield and they complained about it, the cost of their gas was free and it came out of my salary.”
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