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#93784 Sat Jan 06 2007 01:43 PM
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spent some time at the library this morn.ive been wanting to research where and what kind of stations were here in antioch.this is just one of the pics i found,thought you guys might like a peek! "the village board of antioch il,gave standard oil the authority to construct and maintain a property for 50 years"sept 24 1914.


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Cool pic Mick. Those look like G&B 66s. I have one of those pumps in great shape. I just cant decide what to do it in "till now". Thanks for the peek


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#93786 Sat Jan 06 2007 07:45 PM
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Nice Photo, thanks for sharing.

Ok, now anyone out there have the Crown globe which is on the third pump? I'm your buyer if you do.

Look closely, it is a Crown with 7" flanged glass base mount with 2" spaced jewels around the lower band. Most likely a Blue crown, but my guess maybe Green too.

Oldnfuelish, was this an actual photo or just a picture in a book/newspaper? Can it be more closely dated? My guess this photo is probably late 20's early 30's.

Still looking for Gray, Green, or Gasoline Lettered Crowns for my collection.

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Kim

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Mick, Great picture. Thanks for posting it.
Kim, Thats probably a blue crown with the close spacing on the jewels. I've seen globes like that in old pictures but I've never seen one in person or a recent picture of one.


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Sweet picture Mick! Got alot of oldgassers drooling.
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Kim that came from a history book,no way to actually date it.


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Lastgas:
Bob, I agree. I know for sure they made that globe as a Blue crown. I have a family photo with this globe on a known Solite pump I can date to 1936. I have also seen this globe in person recently...Its only my speculation that they may have also used this mold in a different color than Blue, time will answer that question I guess.

Oldnfuelish:
Thanks for the reply on the date, still a great photo, thanks for posting.

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Kim

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Kim,
Ya would think with the other rasied letter crowns that they would have had the SOLITE rasied letter displayed also.
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Dick,
I agree, you would think all raised letter crowns would be the norm, but I suppose it depends on the year and so on. It doesn't make sense to me why the Solite Brand would have that I can think of six different configurations of globes but only one sign variation I can think of.

(Solite metal body and lens in 15" & 16.5", Solite raised letter, Blue crown flanged base with regular spaced jewels, Blue crown flanged base with 2" spaced jewels, Blue crown with metal adapter fitting...or at least six that I know of.)

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#93793 Sun Jan 07 2007 06:02 PM
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hey kim,you got me to wonderin if i could find out a date for that photo.seems the lady who got credit for the photo still has an antioch phone # if you want i can try and call her and try and get you a date.mick ps maybe she still has that crown in her garage!


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Kim,
There's one more version.
Raised letter, flanged base SOLITE crown that was painted RED. There are at least two known to exist.
Bob


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