Old gas stations

[LizzieMaine]

Yep. Essolene was Jersey Standard's answer to Mobilgas in the snappy-one-word-trademark derby. They also offered Essolube Hydro-Refined Motor Oil. These products had the distinction of being promoted by Groucho and Chico Marx on the Esso-sponsored "Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel" radio program, but neither approached Ed Wynn's skill as a comedian-shilling-for-an-oil-company, and Groucho, especially, sounded profoundly bored about the whole enterprise.

By the end of the thirties, Essolene had been replaced by Esso Extra, a branding that continued into the 1970s.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Fading Fast]

Yep. Essolene was Jersey Standard's answer to Mobilgas in the snappy-one-word-trademark derby. They also offered Essolube Hydro-Refined Motor Oil. These products had the distinction of being promoted by Groucho and Chico Marx on the Esso-sponsored "Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel" radio program, but neither approached Ed Wynn's skill as a comedian-shilling-for-an-oil-company, and Groucho, especially, sounded profoundly bored about the whole enterprise.

By the end of the thirties, Essolene had been replaced by Esso Extra, a branding that continued into the 1970s.

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[Fading Fast]

Serious looking fella

Love the two-tone paint on the truck

Note the size of the road sign that we see the back of in the deep-to-the-right background

Great pictures Rob - like all of yours, you dig out incredible shots. Thank you for doing that.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

You're welcome, Fast...it's nice to have a place on the internet where like-minded folks can share stuff like this.

Besides, I work for my local County, so I'm putting the citizen's tax dollars to good use, by doing all of this 'historical research', lol.

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Speaking of stations, here's one that's not 'old' (it's a reproduction), but it IS where we were yesterday...Disney's Hollywood Studios.

Rob

 

[2jakes]

Up close.

 

[2jakes]

Major overhaul.

 

[Stearmen]

Monument Valley, Painted Desert, Sacred Mountain Enco Station. I'll let you guess what movie these photos are from?

 

[2jakes]

Monument Valley, Painted Desert, Sacred Mountain Enco Station. I'll let you guess what movie these photos are from?

That’s easy if you ever been a rider!

 

[2jakes]

Service with a Smile!

 

[Trenchfriend]

Service with a Smile!

But, she's looking like from the pharmacy...

 

[2jakes]

But, she's looking like from the pharmacy.

Perhaps she worked in a pharmacy.
But most likely if you read the caption below on this Gulf ad,
notice the emphasis on “clean” which is repeated three times.
As in “hospital” clean.

Check this ad from the past.

Trenchfriend, you have to take into account the time period when
these ads were made.

 

[Trenchfriend]

@2jakes
As an succesfull dentist, with or without Porsche 911 Carrera , I would recommend daily Vitamin D3-supplementation for all your "bones".

 

[2jakes]

Thanks!

 

[Fading Fast]

Service with a Smile!

Sadly, the first thing I noticed were the Art Deco lines of the gas station building and that wonderful wrap around window. Then I noticed the how-the-heck-do-you-wear-it-and-keep-it-clean outfit of miss money bags which, as 2Jakes subsequently points out, is more about branding the station than her particular sartorial washing challenges. I don't know what year of my life it changed (I'm 52 now), but there was a time when I'd have noticed her before the building .

 

[2jakes]

Sadly...I don't know what year of my life it changed (I'm 52 now), but there was a time when I'd have noticed her before the building .

It's called "middle-age-crisis"!

Not to worry my friend, it's only a
passing phase.
The best years are just ahead.
I speak from experience!

Enjoy!

 

[Fading Fast]

It's called "middle-age-crisis"!

Not to worry my friend, it's only a
passing phase.
The best years are just ahead.
I speak from experience!

Enjoy!

My girlfriend will be happy to know that my "crisis" has, so far, played out without a red sports car or new wardrobe or anything else silly middle-aged men do when they start to notice buildings in backgrounds before the blondes in the foreground .

 

[2jakes]

Linco gas.

"Make sure you put the “empties” in the right case jake!"

From my school days when I worked weekends helping
make deliveries . Coke, Seven-Up, Dr. Pepper and Canada
Dry bottling companies.
Best part was lunch time when my boss would treat me
to local diner and the “fish plate special”.
Grand times indeed!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Look what we found in the ads in the back!
It's old Doctor Seuss and his marketing clacque!
'Till Standard went Nazi and that made Seuss sick!
Selling the Ethyl that gave Hun planes kick!
So he jumped and he hollered and with a loud roar
He quit that old job and slammed shut the door!
He went to PM, that paper ad-free
Became their cartoonist, for a very low fee
And he made fun of Adolf and all of the rest
And he never again would sell Esso High-Test!