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Hey , Jack got it , or close enough , you must have just got up Jack ha , the first part of the qestion, the Signal stations in 1931 on the grand opening day was named the purr-pull service stations, there gas was what color? purple , there first globe for gasoline was the purple, there Matinee fan club was Tarzan the ape man fan club, starring Buster Crab, later did a show for Signal when T.V's came in called Flash Gordon, heres some photos , not real good but you can make them out ,





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I knew the answer to that too....couldnt here quick enough though

I new you'd know Bobby, Jack does a lot of reading and surfing ebay , I'm sure he has seen the Tarzan pins from Signal. this matinee went on from 1931 to 1933 the depression put a stop to it but the radio program kept going, then Richfeild had there radio show , anyone want to take a guess at that one ????? or the one from Wilshire ???it was bassed on the color of there gasoline which was green,

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Green Hornet?

you got it T-way , I sent you a picture of Wilshires Economy globe green , see if you can copy that logo globe and clear it up , would love to see that one repo'ed .

I have an article about the promotion around here someplace. I couldn't find it, but I did remember it was Tarzan.

So what was the most popular West coast radio show sponsored by Signal? Everyone ought to know this one.

Al Kozeliski

Dwaine:

Please re-send the Wilshire photo. I didn't get the earlier e-mail.

Thanks!

Later . . .

Jim

Al , what was it?

"The Signal Oil Program - The Whistler" "The Most Popular West coast radio program."

Can't believe Dwaine doesn't know. Amazing! Ha - Ha

Al Kozeliski

There was a lot of them that the oil companys sponsered, Seaside sponsered a spelling competion , Signal did another one in the 1935- call The Carnival , heres a picture,

Richfield did a show about a young pilot Jimmy Allen it ran for years , you can still git club memorabilia on ebay, but I'll post a picture of some stuff I have of a desk set from Richfield that had to do with that program and a race car program that they had on radio ,


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Dwaine,

You mentioned in an earlier post that the first Signal globe was a purr-pul globe. Do any exist? If not is there a picure of one.

Thanks.

There was a image here for a while that showed what one looked like , as far as I know theres only one lens an it belongs to a California guy by the name of Steve Castelli. I would email you some stuff , but you have no address,