Old gas stations

[2jakes]

The Vacuum Oil Company trademarked the disturbing Pegasus logo in 1911 and by the 1930s was marketing Pegasus Motor Spirits and Mobiloil.

 

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"Attack of the Crawling Gas Station"


The Sinclair Super Service Station was built exclusively for the 1964-65 New York World's Fair.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Before Vacuum Oil merged with Socony, Mobiloil was marketed under the brand name "Gargoyle Mobiloil."

The Gargoyle, which was even creepier if possible than the Flying Red Horse, remained part of the Mobiloil logo into the mid-1940s. Brrrrr.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

"Two Crooks" in Parker, Florida

Rob

 

[2jakes]

Creepy stuff Texas Style!

Starlite Sign installers wire the creepy original Pegasus, which sits atop a miniature oil derrick today in
front of the Omni building.

 

[Fading Fast]

Before Vacuum Oil merged with Socony, Mobiloil was marketed under the brand name "Gargoyle Mobiloil."

The Gargoyle, which was even creepier if possible than the Flying Red Horse, remained part of the Mobiloil logo into the mid-1940s. Brrrrr.

While I get that they were going for the classic gargoyle leaning over the side of a building, that one just looks like a thalidomide dinosaur who drank too much the night before.

 

[2jakes]

"When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth!"

 

[Fading Fast]

⇧ should have been painted green. Love the dinosaurs on top of the gas pumps.

 

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Now this is really "disturbing"!

A motorist enjoying a smoke at a rural Shell gas station. 1949

 

[Ghostsoldier]

 

[Fading Fast]

Now this is really "disturbing"!

A motorist enjoying a smoke at a rural Shell gas station. 1949

I'm sure Lizzie has plenty of these stories, but when I pumped gas one summer, it was amazing how many customers thought nothing of smoking just like this guy standing next to his car being fueled up.

And let's not forget that, usually, the ground around the pumps has plenty of gas puddles and a general saturation of gasoline and there are oil-soaked rags around, etc. Basically, it's one big tinderbox, but again, despite everything I said to them, some just kept on smoking.

That aside, that is one heck of a cute car.

 

[2jakes]

I'm sure Lizzie has plenty of these stories...

Most likely she went to get a shotgun for my posting disturbing horses!

Restored gas station in Ellensberg, Washington.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'm sure Lizzie has plenty of these stories, but when I pumped gas one summer, it was amazing how many customers thought nothing of smoking just like this guy standing next to his car being fueled up.

And let's not forget that, usually, the ground around the pumps has plenty of gas puddles and a general saturation of gasoline and there are oil-soaked rags around, etc. Basically, it's one big tinderbox, but again, despite everything I said to them, some just kept on smoking.

That aside, that is one heck of a cute car.

There was an Esso station up in Hampden, Maine, right across from the Route 1 turnoff that leads to I-95, where some fool lit up a cigar near the pump as his car was being fueled -- and it ended up blowing him thru the front wall of the building. Miraculously, he wasn't killed.

My grandfather and uncle always had a pipe or a cigarette going while they were working on cars. Never had an explosion, but it wasn't for lack of trying.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Stooge Service.

 

[2jakes]

Alamo gas station, Serape Belt, East Los Angeles, 1964.

"Viva Gas & Cigarettes!"

Operator in East L.A.: "Bueno?"
Jake: "Habla ingles?"
Operator: "Seguro que si senor!"
Jake: "Good...I would like to report a fire hazard at.."
Operator: "Bueno?"
Jake: "Oh...never mind!"



"Jake...it's Chinatown!"

 

[Touchofevil]

I'm sure Lizzie has plenty of these stories, but when I pumped gas one summer, it was amazing how many customers thought nothing of smoking just like this guy standing next to his car being fueled up.

And let's not forget that, usually, the ground around the pumps has plenty of gas puddles and a general saturation of gasoline and there are oil-soaked rags around, etc. Basically, it's one big tinderbox, but again, despite everything I said to them, some just kept on smoking.

That aside, that is one heck of a cute car.

It is often enough that I see people smoking while pumping gas. I guess they figure that since nothing bad has come of it so far, it will not happen to them.

 

[Touchofevil]

"If you look closely, I think you'll see that this is a Gulf Station."

Sylva, North Carolina

Nope, I don't see it.

 

[2jakes]

Nope, I don't see it.

I don't see "it" either.

But I do see the "Gulf " signs though!

 

[Touchofevil]

I don't see "it" either.

But I do see the "Gulf " signs though!

Hmmm...I think I see something, but not sure...

 

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Hmmm...I think I see something, but not sure...

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