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Another period one...
Rob
Rob
Another period one...
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Rob -- that looks like the one in McLean, Texas. Home of the Devil's Rope Museum and Barbed Wire Hall of Fame (my wife's Granddad was a member).
Although Pure started that "quaint little cottage" trend in the '20s, other companies also used it. Cities Service built a lot of them as well, usually in stucco or brick. The definitive characteristic was the gable front with a glass inset of the company's delta-in-a-trefoil logo.
Often the logo glass will have been long since broken or replaced with something else, but you can usually tell where it was.
"Hottest Brand Going", used by Conoco in the 1950s, has got to be the dopiest slogan any company ever used. It's the sort of thing a bunch of brand consultants who never talked to anyone else but other brand consultants would come up with. It tells the consumer nothing, it raises no expectation of quality products or service, and offers nothing but a limp attempt at bandwagoning.
The advertising campaigns were pretty lame too - the iconic image used in the ads was of a cowboy thrusting a red-hot branding iron with the Conoco logo directly into the face of the reader. Yeah, that'll get me buying.