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Front page article in todays Wall Street Journal. Quotes from Jerry Keyser and Dan Matthews. Pretty cool!
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Nice article, but he also sounds like a real "classy" guy. Gives us a good name....
For decades in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, as he drove past a square in the picturesque lakeside town of Como, near Milan, Mr. Fisogni would covet a 1930s oil company road sign attached to the first floor of a building, over a cafe.
Eventually, Mr. Fisogni just decided to take it. He procured himself a removal truck with an extendible arm; set no-trespassing cones on the sidewalk and—with the nonchalance of someone doing official repairwork—he dislodged the sign and took it home. A local cop even diverted traffic to help him out, Mr. Fisogni recalled with a grin.
Alex
Looking for Texaco and Power Gasoline items
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Sounds like grand larceny. Whats the statute of limitations for that.
see me at Mason Dixon Gas, Spring Carlisle M114-115, and Hershey C4E-35.
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Looking for better Gulf items: signs, globes, cans and paper - especially porcelain Gulf flanges, and Gulf A-38 & A-62 ad glass...
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I would say most sign collections contain a piece or two of illegally acquired
signs. Not by the collector but the one who originally acquired it. He is just the first one I heard admit it. I guess that's how it's done in the old country lol.
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I too picked up the WSJ in the driveway this morning and was surprised to see the gas pump article. To bad the author couldn't have talked more about American collecting. Got to admit the guys has bal-- to get a powered lift and just steal a sign off the building. I have had my share of free bees but wow - never went to that extent. I like being free to much or without dog bites!!
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Check out this website....it's been in existence for a number of years....I'd guess at least 10. http://www.museo-fisogni.org/Not sure if this will end up a hotlink....if not, maybe someone could do it for me. Richard
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very good business article for you guys who sell gas pumps. If its in the journal basically saying its a solid investment. very cool ......
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You might also be interested in this http://www.petrolplaza.com/news/industry/MiZlbiYxNDM1NSYmMSYzMCYxIt is an article about the Fisogni collection, there are some inedited contents since the writer is his son or brother. Anyway i think he saved the sign from the dustbin. In Italy there are UNESCO Etrurian catacombs full of garbage!!!
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