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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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The Horse with wings

Red horse. Standard.

No Mobil Gas

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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The Horse with wings

Red horse. Standard.

Standard was Red, White, and Blue with the hand torch

https://www.google.com/search?...mgrc=HvSEOrDPx4bshM:

Union 76 used to put a styrofoam Orange ball with the Union 76 logo on your antenna when you filled up. It seemed like every car in town was driving around with that orange ball on their antenna.

The Pegasus logo was Mobil. The American Picker guys pay big bucks for stuff with that logo.

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Originally posted by cparktd:
Yea, and they put it in for you, and checked the oil.

...and gave you Green Stamps.

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Originally posted by Sgt Neutron:
This is an old Vickers Station that Haysville Kansas restored and turned into an information center.

Love the design..it's stylistically similar to the old Phillips 66 station architecture.

God, you guys are bringing back old memories. My first paying job was at an ESSO Station back in middle 50s where the owners son and I made money fixing flat tires. We got 50 cents a tire if they brought it in and .75 if we took it off the car. In 1963 when I started college I worked in a series of stations but the one I worked in the longest was a Gulf. We did everything, oil changes, tire service, minor repairs such as engine tuning and carburetor repairs, we also washed and waxed cars along with pumping gas while we washed the windshield and checked the oil and even the air pressure in yours tires when asked. One station offered free car wash and vacuum with oil change service (brought the women in in droves even though they were paying $5-10 more than the competition charged) and oh yes, those ever popular Green Stamps (customers either did not realize it or didn't care that the gasoline they bought to get those stamps was $0.02-0.03 a gallon higher). Last was the numerous gas wars that went on in early 60s. Gasoline normally sold for around $0.28 to 0.35 a gallon but gas wars would drive it down to as low as $0.17 to 0.19 per gallon. Old memories.

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Originally posted by cparktd:
Yea, and they put it in for you, and checked the oil.

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I worked at a big full serve Shell station in the 1970s in high school. We also offered to check air pressure in the tires and we cleaned the windshield. We sold and installed batteries, tires and fan belts, too.

And had swell uniform shirts with the Shell Pecten emblem on them.

If we gave away any goodies I don't remember what they were.

I remember one of the gas stations giving away a green dinosaur made of soap. In other countries, they still have Esso stations.

I worked at Union 76 Cloverleaf Servicenter from 1977 to 1980. Pumped the first gallon of gas over a dollar a gallon there. Full service only! Still had personal accounts at the station, where a customer could sign a ticket for what they received and pay monthly. The cash register was mechanical and we used a well-worn key to open it. "Cadillac" converters were new and misunderstood. There were four oil filters that fit every car. PH8A, PH19, PH30, and PH43. Tires were still bias-ply. E78-14 fit the 1966 Mustang, for example. The Rochester Quadrajet was a performer, and the Sun machine to check ignition performance was high tech. I miss those days.

Back in the 60’s I worked at a Sinclair gas station. Regular $0.299 high test $0.349. Most customer’s got $2 worth of gas.

When gas company had give away contests some customers would beg for more tickets.

Studding snow tires what a boring job.

I remember it too.

"Those were the days..."

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Originally posted by cparktd:
Yea, and they put it in for you, and checked the oil.

I recall that the oil stick always seemed to get a knuckle or two shorter when they did so!

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by cparktd:
Yea, and they put it in for you, and checked the oil.

I recall that the oil stick always seemed to get a knuckle or two shorter when they did so!

And if we're bragging on cheapest seen, can anybody beat the $0.129/gal. I saw in Metairie LA circa Mardi Gras 1980? "Gimme $2 worth of regular, please. Sorry sir, I don't think she'll take that much!"

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BTW, the Mobiloil symbol was Pegasus, the flying horse of mythology.

In the mid-fifties I worked at two Texaco stations in New Mexico. We sold various accessories such as window evaporative coolers and water bags that were hung on bumpers. The biggest tip I got was from a honeymooner. From the service station driveway I could get a good look at a large motel across the street. One day I saw a car with a flat parked at the motel across the street. "Just Married" was printed on the car. I crossed the street, knocked on a door
and offered to repair the tire and they could come to the station later and pay. The husband told me to make the repair and he would come and pay later. After I repaired and remounted the tire he came by later to pay and gave me a $10 tip.

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Originally posted by ontmark:

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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The Horse with wings

Red horse. Standard.

Standard was Red, White, and Blue with the hand torch

https://www.google.com/search?...mgrc=HvSEOrDPx4bshM:

Yep. I think I forgot I don't remember as good as I thought.

My Grand-père (paw-paw for you none Cajuns ) used to let me fill the top part of the tank when we were out at his camp on the Amite River. He started work at the ESSO refinery in Baton Rouge (now ExxonMobil) right after returning from WWI and retired as the Chief Pipe-fitter. Not sure of the brand of the pump in the photo, but he always used ESSO.

For you digital generations, "filling the tank" meant using the large handle to pump the amount of gas you wanted to buy into the top glass portion, then gravity would take over with the hose and handle.

The gas was at the local country store and very similar to the one in the photo.





Bonne Christmeusse.

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we had DX and Skelly and Holiday , back in the 60's

I remember that and it seems gas was $.30 gallon ~ too?