Primarily Petroliana Shop Talk Forums Shop Talk Petroliana Forums General Petroliana Discussion Crazy Pump Plates with Mans Face.

Any idea's as to this brand? Anyone have such a sign??

Looks like one of the southwest operations?
Alcon oil?
The image is a bit to grainy to make out the guy though it's almost say he's wearing a mexican style jacket or is that just sund glinding off the sign?

Looks like Alcohol on the oil stand. And the globes kinda look like COSDEN and look like gill bodies.

On the enlargement, it almost looks like there's a frame and that it might be a poster.

...or it could just be a border on a pump plate and it just looks like a frame.

Looks like the same picture, only larger, on the side of the station? The name "Lou Blender" is above the door--Maybe its his picture and they put it on the building and the pumps?

where is it?

Picture was labeled "Paterson N.J." where I found it.

This is a Merit station. They had operations in suburban Philly, suburban Boston, throughout New Jersey and on Long Island. Photo dates from the early postwar era, clock pumps notwithstanding. Merit stations tended to be real low-budget in those days. Bottom line on the pump poster (framed printed cardboard sign or something along those lines) reads Merit Gas, Merit sign on right end of building (got to know what you are looking at) and Merit globes on the pumps. Great old photo. I have pics of about a half dozen locations, and several appear in One Hundred Years of Gas Stations. Merit eventually sold out to Hess, brand lasted until 1999.

Thanks Wayne!! Great info!!

I also thought the coiled hose was cool/interesting!!!