For many years Texas had anti-trust laws that forbade the original Standard Oil from operating in Texas. After the 1911 breakup of Standard oil,...
The hideous Chrysler cars of 1961, in which was the last year of the Exener 1957 design. Remember in 1961 Ford came out with a new Galaxie,...
Eventually some one decided to put a large canopy over those pumps, like the Blakely chain in Arizona which also placed a cashier kiosk on the...
SOCONY owned General Petroleum Co, who sold under the Mobil brand on the West Coast. The same with Magnolia Petroleum in Texas along with White...
Inspiration for the new Walthers gas station.
Those "desert" water bags you hung in front of the radiator...
Why didn't they use Kadee cars?
And staying a part of the burning dumpster fire called the EU was better? Bizarre regulations on things like toasters and sausages? It seems like...
Hatton's bought the owners of woo woo woo last year. They closed the retail store down and were planning to move the warehouse for online...
And items like tractors and construction equipment come in several sizes...so that Matchbox bulldozer that is 1/64 can be used for HO with a few...
"Half&Half" was a middle grade gasoline originally sold by Wilshire Oil Co on the West Coast. When Gulf bought and converted the Wilshire...
They introduced "American" (and later Amoco) to enter markets outside of Standard Oil of Indiana's marketing area (Midwest and Rocky Mountain...
Upon reading a number of British model ry magazines, they use a substance called T-Cut Color Restorer, which is some type of a fine car polish....
Gas was rather pricey at that station for the 60s...especially for Gulftane, which was Gulf's cheapest gas.
The fuel tank for the diesel engine is missing.
Showcase miniatures has those style pumps as part of a "convenience store detail set"...
It is a German locomotive..built in Berlin by O&K
I remember the Union 76 truck stops (Truck/Auto stops) that seemed to be across the country - even in areas that Union 76 had no regular gas...
You could use light gray N scale ballast to copy the aggregate coating. In more current times there are aluminum-based coatings, white elastomeric...
