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In 1930 Signal bought a chain of stations plus others to give them a larger chain up and down California, they named the stations what??? give them time Dick,

UNITIED

BUT I WANTA PLAY !!!

HUBBA,
DB WON'T LET ME PLAY !!

I know Mr. Bennett knows the answer or he should, I just posted a big hint on my website in the items for sale, If no one gits the answer by tomarrow I will post a second part to the question, on the biggest gasoline station promotional campian ever, 1931 for Signal oil,

Dwainey - Why wontcha let Dick Play? Is it fair if I play since I think it was in youre email to me earlier ? LOL - Come you kittens .... tug o War.
Hubba

Heres the second part, I will post the answer around 17:00 hours p/s/t/ with pictures. if no one has answered it (both) then Dicky its all yours , 1931- Signal came up with the most genius advertisng known , KIDS, they promotted a movie matinee for kids, then it turned into one of the largest clubs in America, what was it????

MICKEY MOUSE

the Howdy-Dwainey show!!

not even close, Jim Potts has got his puter burning o-zone trying to find the answer, I'll give you a hint at noon, or maybe before, so git the thinking caps on, as a matter of fact there advertizing plore started a hole trend of Radio shows , Matinees, all sponsered by oil companys. so think , and Larry , you mostlikly went to Hobbs to see it. do you go back that far,ha ha ha .
Wheres Bobby Lewis????

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tom mix show

The Lone Ranger show

Come on guys... I'm only 31! When I was around gas pumps had no paint, just chrome. I only remember one place that had full service, my dad would not let my mom go there because it cost more than the other stations. lol. The guys that worked there were certainly not the enthusiastic young bucks that I have heard described... more like whacked-out hippies. They did not check the oil, just leered at the ladies! lol!
Oh well, such is life... a day late and a dollar short.
BTW- I think the first matinee I saw was Friday the 13 with my older brother.
All this history is good for me though, love to hear about it. They should teach this stuff to kids in school. They should have an American history class that covers the recent history. It is funny how many of my buddies have no clue what a visible pump is. They have no idea what they were used for, most of them don't know what my wayne 100 is! Sad, a whole era will be lost. Most people my age think of Grease as a documentary on the 50's!
Enough of my rant...
What chain of stations is it!?

The Red Lion Show
The Gimore Circus hour

sky king

Tarzan

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,