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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
I will show my age and state I remember my mother getting "Green Stamps" at the gas station and pasting them in a book to redeem them.

Must mean I'm really old, I use to give out green stamps at a Texco station that I was co-owner of back in the day.

I remember the S&H Green Stamps and going into the S&H Store to redeem them. Carried in about half dozen books, and IIRC, there were orange stamps too, but not as many as the pages of green ones.

Used to be all sorts of places that handed out stamps when you bought stuff, groceries, gas etc.

Standard Service

SKELLY

Cool Springs, Arizona

Tower Gas

Magnolia

Odell, Illinois ~ Sunset

Standard Service

Trulock's Texaco

I grew up in the 1960's when my two Uncles owned "Edison Motors", a SHELL station in Fords, NJ. So the SHELL memorabilia is near and dear to me and my Cousin.

Just found a "Bear Alignment" sign from the 1950's on Flea Bay. Yellow sign with a smiling, bear on it.

I recall S&H green stamps as well as ALWAYS washing windows and checking oil for gas customers.

Remember the glass ball on the side of the tank, that as gas flowed three little balls swished around the globe...showing the pump was running?

Remember how GOOD gas smelled back then?

We had a big HESS station nearby....HESS was always a few cents cheaper than everyone else. White and green motif, usually very clean and well maintained. No repairs at all, only gas and oil sales.

FN in MT

My Mom collected Green Stamps and I remember going to the Green Stamp “Redemption Center” with her. We got a set of metal porch chairs, a picnic table and side tables with those stamps. The chairs are long gone, but the side tables and picnic table are still in my possession. Now they’re black rather than the original white.

She also got a Windsor style rocking chair with those stamps. Sits in our spare room for family when they visit.

Remember one of the gas commercials where they promised to wash ALL your windows? I remember the comic part when someone drove in with a school bus - the attendant washed them all.

Remember gas wars between competing stations ?
Especially those on opposite corners.
Sometimes the price dropped several times a day!!

My Mom had a complete set of dinner dishes, and silverware she collected over a period of time.
We used to have a set of heavy yellow plastic glasses with a ribbed pattern the height of the glass. I believe there was a plate and bowl also. That stuff was so durable we use it for camping and picnics. A number of the plates and glasses survived multiple moves, being packed by just placing in a box with no wrapping. Believe it was from Shell stations.

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Originally posted by cparktd:
Yea, and they put it in for you,

Still don't pump my gas in NJ...

Several posts about S&H Green Stamps. I recall that my mom also collected Gold Bond Stamps. Seems like Safeway gave those out.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Chris42:
My Mom collected Green Stamps and I remember going to the Green Stamp \!!

And I still have the tennis racket bought with green stamps

How about the free maps?

Oh, and in the Chicago area there were Clark gas stations.

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Originally posted by mikeyspizza:
How about the free maps?

Oh, and in the Chicago area there were Clark gas stations.

100 octane! Gotta feed those big 426's, 427's, and 454's!

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Originally posted by Sgt Neutron:

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Originally posted by mikeyspizza:
How about the free maps?

Oh, and in the Chicago area there were Clark gas stations.

100 octane! Gotta feed those big 426's, 427's, and 454's!

Or Sunoco 260 for 102 octane!

My first job was at a Sunoco station in 1970 or so, and the bikers always got 260.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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The Horse with wings

Red horse. Standard.

You mean this guy?

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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.

Great example of Googie architecture.

How about the stands of motor oil sitting outside with the cans that you needed to shove the pour spout into.

Fina, in the early 60’s, ran an advertising campaign promising that “Pink Air was coming in 1977.”
I can’t recall if Fina was still around by then.

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Originally posted by Sportshooter:
Fina, in the early 60’s, ran an advertising campaign promising that “Pink Air was coming in 1977.”
I can’t recall if Fina was still around by then.

Have you always lived in Southern Texas? I ask because as a kid I recall Fina billboards in Spanish touting "Fina con Pflash". So much for the idea that bilingual advertising is relatively new.

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Originally posted by bald1:

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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.

Oh yea, completely forgot about that, and the once a year 50 mile pilgrimage to the big city to redeem them.

I have the whole stuffed tiger. Back in the 70s I converted 247 ENCO-ESSO-HUMBLE branded service stations to Exxon. That took a while.

The cardboard cans that the oil came in? When I was in High School (about 1976) my brother in law gave me a case for a Christmas present, for my first car. I was thrilled and, on hindsight, it was a cheap gift. Oil was easily less than a buck a quart at the time.