This certainly qualifies as "Irrational Exuberance" especially for a gas station during the Great Depression while the Dust Bowl was raging through here.

Fading sunlight still dominates the Art Deco scalloping, creating a pastel scene. But neon has just kicked on and within minutes will remake this 1936 building in its own dramatic image.

The west-facing scalloped canopy, at right, gets the full setting sun while shadows appear in the south-facing side, at left.