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Anyone have one of these, a picture of one, or know much about them? I'm trying to get some idea of what kind of stand this thing had originally. the bracket on the bottom of the sign is made of plastic and is broken. I would assume it had a strait pole with a flat base so it could be set outside near the pumps. Any help would be great! 
North on Route 66,  East on Gas Alley.
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I have never seen one like that. It looks like the frame is made from a produce price sign. We had them when I started working & they looked just like the one you have pictured 
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If you are wondering what year it might have been from, when I had a Shell station in 1972 the prices hovered around $.44 per gallon. I would say your sign is from the mid to late 70s.
One other thing, around the 70s many communities were passing sign laws. My station was in one community that was very strict. We couldn't post sandwich boards with the prices, and we were not even allowed to put a sign like yours on the pumps. The first month I was in business we had a gas war and the prices dropped to $.29 per gallon. The next community to the south had no sign laws so the discounters posted large signs, but where I was you didn't know the price unless you drove up to the pump. No one did, and I almost went out of business the first month.
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Hard to tell the size of yours in picture [maybe 9"-12" sq ?], but I'd guess yours is a Pump Topper.
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12x12 and the price binders slide out of the top so you can change the price. Just trying to figure out how it was mounted so I can fabricate a mount similar to the original. Hard to tell the size of yours in picture [maybe 9"-12" sq ?], but I'd guess yours is a Pump Topper.
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I think Dick is right. If memory serves me right, wasn't it a short model Tokheim 39 or a 300 that had a metal rod that came out of one side of the top, to mount an advertisement or price sign??
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Figured it had to be '70s based on the prices ( goes from .51 - $1.55 ) Even at my "young" age I remember gas allot cheaper than that! I dealt with sign laws myself but was on the other side. My father and I purchased a old service station for our repair shop, 6 months later we were approached by a billboard company, made a deal with them but within a few months they did the same thing with just about every business on that section of highway so all you could see was those miserable billboards. Needless to say the community put the brakes on it!  If you are wondering what year it might have been from, when I had a Shell station in 1972 the prices hovered around $.44 per gallon. I would say your sign is from the mid to late 70s.
One other thing, around the 70s many communities were passing sign laws. My station was in one community that was very strict. We couldn't post sandwich boards with the prices, and we were not even allowed to put a sign like yours on the pumps. The first month I was in business we had a gas war and the prices dropped to $.29 per gallon. The next community to the south had no sign laws so the discounters posted large signs, but where I was you didn't know the price unless you drove up to the pump. No one did, and I almost went out of business the first month.
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Most pump top pricer/signs took the place of globes when they were phased out.
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In almost 25 years of owning many 39s & 300s I have never seen anything, ads, original factory literature or anything else showing what those studs that came out of the top of these pumps were used for. Over the years guys have speculated as to what they were used for, but no one has ever, including me, come up with proof of actually what they were for. Can anyone solve this mystery?
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