Old gas stations

[2jakes]

“Gone but not forgotten!”

 

[LizzieMaine]

Milan, Italy, 1945. It was from the canopy beams of this Esso station on the Piazzale Loreto that the bodies of Mussolini, his mistress, and three Fascist officers were hung from the ankles and abused by a crowd of partisans.

 

[2jakes]

Wow...folks back then were doing more than "Put a Tiger in your tank!".

 

[Stearmen]

How about a couple of motor officers filling up their Henderson's?

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Fading Fast]

Linco gas.

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

...

Just had to call everyone (and Lizzie's, as I think we recently chatted about these) attention to that awesome cigarette vending machine. Certainly more stylish, more Golden Era, more Henry-Drefuss-and-Raymond-Loewy "like" than the mid-century / Jetson ones Lizzie and I remember from when we were kids.

 

[Fading Fast]

Rob

Nice deco lines (our enjoyment is diminished a bit by too many random signs and too much disheveled stuff inside) and even money says the window to our left is a wrap around.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

A few more from my weekend travels...

Rob

 

[2jakes]

Just had to call everyone (and Lizzie's, as I think we recently chatted about these) attention to that awesome cigarette vending machine. Certainly more stylish, more Golden Era, more Henry-Drefuss-and-Raymond-Loewy "like" than the mid-century / Jetson ones Lizzie and I remember from when we were kids.

Hey pal...you’ve piqued my curiosity about that thingamajig on the right!

Can you think of someone that might enlighten us?

 

[Benzadmiral]

Thanks!

Pegasus after he dumped Bellerophon and went to work for Mobil. . . .

 

[Benzadmiral]

Linco gas.

Tobacco Road to the life . . . somebody page Erskine Caldwell. . . .

 

[2jakes]

Tobacco Road to the life . . . somebody page Erskine Caldwell. . . .

Only if he puts out that cigarette!

 

[Fading Fast]

Check this out from eBay

Vintage 1953 Marx Tin Service Center

Kinda Art Deco (at least influenced) and cool wrap-around window

 

[David Conwill]

The "Mobilxxx" branding was all over Socony-Vacuum stations in the Era. Mobilgas, Mobiloil, Mobilubrication done with Mobilgrease, Mobilwax for sale inside for your canning needs, Mobilthis and Mobilthat and Mobiltheotherthing ad infinitum. But "Mobil," the just plain word, wasn't actually used to brand the actual gas station until 1956.

I have a set of 1930-'31 Chevrolet wheels for my gow job project. Two of them had petrified tires still mounted. One was a Mobil Tire De Luxe with a Mobil Tube De Luxe inside. The tube still holds air! Though the bead on the tire suffered somewhat in the removal. They're decor items in my den now.

As the tire says "Socony-Vacuum" on it, I presume it's pre-1955.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Yep, Socony-Vacuum became Socony Mobil Corporation that year, and there were certain changes in signage. Up until then, most of their dealers in New England were branded "Socony" instead of "Mobilgas." Many went straight from the "Socony" shield sign with the big Flying Red Horse to the "new look" 1956 Mobil sign, without any transitional "Mobilgas" shield.

Since "Socony" was derived from the "Standard Oil" brand, the company was allowed to use it as a brand name only in the territory awarded to it as part of the 1911 Standard Oil consent decree. But they got around this by changing the name of the company in the early thirties to "Socony Vacuum Oil Company" and appending a small "Socony-Vacuum" to the bottom of the Mobilgas signs they used in most of the rest of the country.

This kind of slicking around characterized most of the Standard companies at one time or another. From the thirties to the early fifties, most Esso signs read "STANDARD" ESSO DEALER. But in New York and New England, the territory in which Socony had sole use of the Standard name, they read COLONIAL ESSO DEALER, for the Colonial-Beacon Oil Company, a subsidiary which Jersey Standard used to operate in Socony territory. It didn't seem to occur to anyone at Socony that "Esso" was derived from S. O. until the trademark was already established in the region -- either that or they chose not to fight it in exchange for the right to operate Mobilgas stations in Esso territory.

 

[Fading Fast]

Hey pal...you’ve piqued my curiosity about that thingamajig on the right!

Can you think of someone that might enlighten us?

Sorry, missed this earlier. Just a guess (Lizzie will know for sure), but is it a tool of some sort for helping put a tire on a rim?

 

[2jakes]

Sorry, missed this earlier. Just a guess (Lizzie will know for sure), but is it a tool of some sort for helping put a tire on a
rim?

Did you say rim ????

 

[Fading Fast]

Did you say rim ????

Kudos - crazy good connect of a mispronunciation creating a one-off homonym.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[2jakes]

Rob

The 40s truck that you posted looks like a war-era vehicle with the painted grill.
This one (’46) is getting ready for summer driving.

I found “as is”. I don’t believe whitewalls were typical for these work trucks.
Also the hood belongs to GM trucks, the hood on the Chevrolet trucks of this period are similar in design, the main difference was that the
Chevy trucks were equipped with side-vents.
This hood has “General Motors Truck” metal sign on the sides.
I added a larger mirror replacing the smaller original one.
The rear-view mirror inside is so tiny that only a munchkin would
appreciate. But it’s all paid for!