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Thanks Jim it took me a long time to find it but it was worth the wait

my buys from last week. the Cities pump plate cleaned up really well & I'm very happy to add it to my wall.

Sterling pump plate with Quaker lettering skirt


Cities Service thermometer


Cities pump plate - Before cleaning


Cities pump plate - After cleaning

Had a pretty good week. Need to clean the cities service sign still, someone decided to start painting it.

That door is awesome!!

Thanks. I thought it was pretty awesome and couldn't pass it up, even thought I'm not sure how old it is. Where the glass should be is plexiglass now. The guy I got it from was selling the remainder of his grandpas stuff, who died 12 years ago and had no repros that I saw (his name wasn't Pete either). Story he told me was Pete was a friend of the grandfathers and he went there every morning for coffee, and when passed and they sold the station he got the door off the family.

Tyler--That Cities Service sign is a product of the past! When Cities Service was changing out their signs from the black and white, to the green and white, it was either because some dealers couldn't afford the new signage, or they just resented the fact they were being made to change signage, or they just plain didn't have enough to go around???
Whatever the reason, some dealers got out the old paint brush and changed their black and white signs to green and white. I bought a couple of 48 inch clovers that were that way, and a little paint stripper, some elbow grease, and I had 2 really nice black & whites.
You don't see that particular sign in B/W as much as G/W. Better get after it and see what you have got!

Hand colored picture...

Dated on the bottom in pencil 1940...