Line of Cars Waiting to Get Tanks Filled

(Original Caption) 6/20/1979-New York, NY: Even though the sign clearly indicates cars with last "even numbers only" will be given gasoline, this Mobil station on the corner of 33rd Street and First Avenue is filling the tank of a car with an odd number for its final digit. a line of waiting cars behind was four blocks long. This is the first day of the imposition of the odd-even plan in the New York area. Asked why he was filling an odd number car, the owner of the station told photographer to get off the property. There ws no objection to the filling of the odd numbered car by drivers behind, all of whom had even numbers on their plate.