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Mon Jun 18 2012 10:28 AM
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Is there a resource out there that we can utilize to determine where certain oil company gas stations use to be located? I've run across a lot of DX stuff here lately, and I'm curious to know where DX use to have gas stations here in Texas.
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A lot of DX maps show their station locations: unfortunately, I have little from Texas.
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Good idea, I will have to see what DX maps I have. Thanks!
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State archives or even city archives should have copies of the old local phone books which are a great resource for documenting the oil company brands and where their stations were located in a particular town or city. I myself have collected over two dozen local phone books from the mid 60s back to the 1930s just to be able to identify some of the local gas station photos which I purchased from the archives. Here in Alberta, oil companies in the 50s and 60s used the yellow pages quite a bit to advertise their stations and products, sometime with photos too. Cheers!
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Now I'm kicking myself! The place where I just got a bunch of DX stuff from had a box of old phone books too! If I had only thought about that, I would have grabbed them. Now at least I will know in the future. Thanks for the great suggestion!
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In my research of Hy-Flash (Miller Oil) which was in Ohio, Michigan, IN, I used road maps, phone books advertising and talking to old employees to locate and document their locations. I was fortunate that Bill Berry who worked for Ross Miller from day one, helped in that. Plus, I had Old Gas member’s Dave Rowlison and Darin Sheffer helping me on the Michigan locations. I was asked one day about documenting Hi-Speed Gas (Hickok Oil) locations in Ohio and Michigan. They had over 2000 stations, some were company stations and others were Mom and Pop stations. Some of them were not listed as Hi-Speeds ether. I know where some of them were located at. It would take years to do all of them!!
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Always looking for Hy-Flash Gas/Miller Oil, Hi-Speed Gas/ Hickok Oil and Paragon Refining items from Toledo,Ohio.
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Last edited by eshaver; Mon Jun 18 2012 01:23 PM.
see ya on the road folks !
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see ya on the road folks !
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see ya on the road folks !
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see ya on the road folks !
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Looks like a book I need to buy! Thanks Ed!
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This book is really geared towards the Political Science aspects here . I got it as I did write a Polital science text years ago for college students , Contains lead . Ed Shaver
see ya on the road folks !
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