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 Posted - November 13 2021 : 7:29:52 PM
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Getting a jump start, tomorrow I may be too tired. Having a lot of fun with this vintage Esso
sign that I got in a small pile of bits for $10. It was NIB, and it was almost painful to take it
out of the package, but not doing any good collecting dust. Not like I run a museum. And
the light works!  
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Posted - November 13 2021 : 7:47:55 PM
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Enjoying these beautiful custom pieces from Anderson Paint Shops. My favorite band in the
universe, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band. Here's a link to one of their videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ra0DsbiNs0
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Posted - November 13 2021 : 7:55:22 PM
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| Need Esso sign chops! They were only catalogued one year in the 60s and they’re fairly uncommon today. I have two around my Esso station on the layout and one in the package that I got a bargain on eBay with. Awesome photos!
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Posted - November 13 2021 : 11:34:38 PM
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Thanks, Walt. I believe it was you that put me wise to the value
of the Esso sign. A very lucky score, completely by accident.
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 Posted - November 14 2021 : 10:47:06 AM
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Esso is a common gas station in EU
but did you know it came from S.O. aka Standard Oil? 
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Posted - November 14 2021 : 10:35:17 PM
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Nice accessories, Chops, and a mighty fine functioning ESSO sign.
2 more Anderson Shops products, made for the Ephrata Valley Railroad. A custom Tyco Camaro for the EVPD, and an EVRR Maintenance-of-Way dump truck.
 
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Posted - November 15 2021 : 1:17:55 PM
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Texaco gas island
may be from Canada as the pump is in liters
could of been a promo item
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Posted - November 16 2021 : 12:49:53 AM
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| Litres?? Oh, Canada!
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Posted - November 16 2021 : 08:59:04 AM
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quote:Texaco gas island may be from Canada as the pump is in liters
Originally posted by microbusss - November 15 2021 : 1:17:55 PM
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Canada changed from imperial gallons (about 1.2 US gallons) to liters in 1979. It would be interesting to know when that gas island was made.
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Posted - November 16 2021 : 10:56:06 AM
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quote: quote:Texaco gas island may be from Canada as the pump is in liters
Originally posted by microbusss - November 15 2021 : 1:17:55 PM
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Canada changed from imperial gallons (about 1.2 US gallons) to liters in 1979. It would be interesting to know when that gas island was made.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - November 16 2021 : 08:59:04 AM
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I'd say about after 1979
As Texaco used that sign from 1963/1966-1981 
early flat porcelain signs had a green T & was changed to white later on
Possibly when the signs went to lit up plastic ones
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Posted - November 18 2021 : 11:43:41 AM
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Cool stuff! Can't beat the old light-up signs, and I love that painted Tyco Camaro!
Back in the 1950s Disneyland had a large rocket ship in the park called the TWA 'Moonliner'. I stumbled across a set of 3D files that someone had made for it and figured it would look good in the parking lot of my gas station. Here it is printed and painted.
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Posted - November 18 2021 : 8:58:39 PM
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A rocket ship in the parking lot of a gas station - I love it!
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Posted - November 18 2021 : 9:32:35 PM
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| I've seen pictures of old gas stations with dinosaurs, airplanes.... why not a rocket ship!
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Posted - November 18 2021 : 10:13:51 PM
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To the moon, Alice! (Jackie Gleason)Great 3D work.
All the painted vehicles are by Anderson Paint Shops.
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Posted - November 19 2021 : 1:26:47 PM
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That rocket is a perfect match for the futuristic design of the roof over the gas pumps. There's a place I occasionally pass called the Launching Pad Drive In. It has a big statue out front of a guy in a short-sleeved space suit holding a rocket in his hands. I get a kick out of all that futuristic (now retro-futuristic) stuff from the space age.
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Posted - November 19 2021 : 3:56:39 PM
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| Eat Here & Get Gas
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Posted - November 19 2021 : 9:45:34 PM
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quote:That rocket is a perfect match for the futuristic design of the roof over the gas pumps. There's a place I occasionally pass called the Launching Pad Drive In. It has a big statue out front of a guy in a short-sleeved space suit holding a rocket in his hands. I get a kick out of all that futuristic (now retro-futuristic) stuff from the space age.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - November 19 2021 : 1:26:47 PM
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I looked it up....I love it! Space Age design is such a fun style.
On a similar note, there's a restaurant in Niagara Falls called the Flying Saucer Restaurant that is definitely one of the funkier places I've been.
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Posted - November 19 2021 : 11:37:38 PM
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| Lovin' it!
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Posted - November 20 2021 : 4:44:29 PM
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quote: quote:That rocket is a perfect match for the futuristic design of the roof over the gas pumps. There's a place I occasionally pass called the Launching Pad Drive In. It has a big statue out front of a guy in a short-sleeved space suit holding a rocket in his hands. I get a kick out of all that futuristic (now retro-futuristic) stuff from the space age.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - November 19 2021 : 1:26:47 PM
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I looked it up....I love it! Space Age design is such a fun style.
Originally posted by DaCheez - November 19 2021 : 9:45:34 PM
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that is one of a bunch of Muffler Men still in existence
closest one here in North Platte as a Indian 
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/37422
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