Billups petroleum company letter from W.L."Buddy" Billups on parade arrangements for Louisiana Govenor Jimmie Davis dated 1960 (Jimmie Davis wrote and sang the famous song "You are my sunshine") and the back cover of Gospel News with Billups advertisment,dated 1958 Paddy WTB Billups, Rose, Canal, and Gulf Coast Oil Company items.
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The first thing you're going to ask is "How is this sign Petro related?" Look closely at what it shows. It has the locations of the Andersen's Pea Soup Restaurants with their service stations located nearby. The grid is a mileage chart just like on the road maps showing distances. This was used mid to late 1970's so it's not all that old, but there aren't too many of these around either (I know of only three). At the time Andersen's Pea Soup operated three service stations in California and had four locations.
Not really a "Buy of the Week" since Mark Mendenhall was kind enough to give it to me this week for our collection at the Buellton Historical Society, but great to have!
Got this 100+ years old Vacuum Oil can this week.....
It has the rare "Standing Gargoyle" logo and pre-dates use of the "Mobiloil" brand name. Also has one of those "magic" words on it (you know.......aircraft or aero or marine), and it's a square half-gallon size can. A pretty rare one I'd think.
Richard
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Richard glad you got the can but boy I wanted that baby!I wached it from the moment she hit ebay.If my wife new how much I bid on that I'd be going to divorce court LOL!That can is cool.I think 5quart Has the only other I've seen.
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I was quite pleased to recently acquire this Idaho Chief knife. ------------------ WANTED Washington Chief, Oregon Chief, Idaho Chief, Montana Chief, Wasatch
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Here's my only buy.A texaco qckwork can.She's rough but also extremely rare!Glad to be able to put an example in any condition into my humble collection.
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And this unusual Diamond 760 Flange Sign was also an ebay purchase for my birthday. It was discovered buried in a junkyard in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. I really love this sign!
Also bought a small handy oiler collection and a few other items Sunday, had to buy them all to get what I wanted for myself. Others will be listed in the for sale section.
Picked these items up at an auction. Nothing too exciting.....especially after seeing what Russ and Richard got last week.
After recently seeing pictures of a fellow Shop Talk member's sign pole thermometer collection I felt compelled to add this one to my meager collection.
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