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YOU ASKED FOR IT...YOU GOT IT!



HEY, JEFF STOP READING MY MIND AND LEAVE ME ALONE I WANNA GO TO BED! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!

DAT"S WHAT I'M TALKIN" ABOUT DOC!!!!!
YOU DA MAN!!!!

Here are some QUAKER STATE related websites :
QUAKER STATE website http://www.quakerstate.com/pages/home/index.asp
QUAKER STATE MEXICAN website in Spanish http://www.quakerstate.com.mx/
QUAKER STATE SWEDISH website in Swedish http://www.quakerstate.se/
SOPUS PRODUCTS website http://www.pennzoil-quakerstate.com/
Q POWER website
http://www.qpower.com/
Robert


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HERE ARE SOME MORE COLLECTIBLE PAPER ITEMS....









(THANKS TO BOB STEPHENS FROM ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA FOR HIS ASSISTANCE).

....AND SOME MISC SMALLS I FOUND ON EBAY AND CONTRIBUTED BY BOB STEPHENS AS WELL....

NOT EXACTLY READY TO DO THE SIGN CATEGORY JUST YET, BUT ROD (Danceswithpumps) HAS THE COOL QUAKER STATE SIGN STORY....
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Doc,
Here is a tin sign dated 3-49 that I dug out of a ditch along a once paved state highway now a county gravel road a few years back.  I remembered it being in the area but hadn't seen it for probably 20 years. I thought it was long gone but I found it rolled up like a cigar mostly covered by blow dirt and grass.  I flatened it out and put it on a 2X4 frame.  It's just a barn fuel/tank hanger but brings back memories of seeing it as a young boy on our way to town. I know there are lots better ones out there but thought this one should be represented on your thread.
Hope the Nor'easterner doesn't cover you up.
Thanks for posting this for me.
Rod van Pelt
danceswithpumps 

HERE ARE A COUPLE "BOTTLE" EXAMPLES BOTH OLD AND NEW:

1940'S GLASS:



1970'S PLASTIC:



THANKS!

For those who want to read more oil company history , the Digital Bookshelf Of Penn State has scanned the book 'History of Northwestern Pennsylvania' by Joseph Riesenman,Jr. 1943
This book has may items about the oil industry up to the early 1940's.Company histories include:
part 20 PENNZOIL COMPANY
part 21 QUAKER STATE OIL REFINING CORPORATION and
part 49 KENDALL REFINING COMPANY
the link is - http://apps.libraries.psu.edu/digitalbookshelf/bookindex.cfm?oclc=30630209
Robert

MORE QUAKER STATE PAPER:

TWO 1956 MAGAZINE ADS:





AND A GROUP OF EARLY 1970'S ROAD MAPS:



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AND A COUPLE MORE EXAMPLES OF STERLING ROAD MAPS. STERLING WAS QUAKER STATES RETAIL GASOLINE BRAND:


1933 DELAWARE FRONT


1933 DELAWARE BACK


1934 OHIO

THANKS BOB STEPHENS FROM ADELAIDE, S. AUSTRALIA!

A Quaker State mini oil can bank.

A version of the tombstone sign in a mounting frame for wall attachment.

A very hard to find Sterling pole style thermometer. This is the only one I know of. Always looking for unusual brands in this style thermometer.

A different Sterling map. This one is circa 1940.

RARE Quaker State anti-freeze qt recenlt sold on ebay.
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Scott Shipers
Kansas City, MO