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Tue Aug 07 2012 10:52 AM
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Picked this up yesterday when I went to buy a trailer. You just never know what you will find. I know it is rough but it was right and there's just not any Cities Service stuff to be found in our area. It has a nice original band too! What's it date to? 
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in thy presence is fulness of joy;
at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
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Stuff is just falling in your lap mike! Must be nice.. i love cities stuff. I think they started green and white in the late 40s
Kyle DeKoning
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Wow! Thats gotta be a 6 footer and I didn't know they ever put those in a hanging ring! Get those rust stains off, and it will look pretty good!
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Specializing in old Gas Pumps
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Yep, it is a 6 footer and Heavy! Big old heavy hanging ring. This is the only Cities item I have, never found anything over the years around here. There were some stations here in town though. My Dad and some older co-workers remember them.
KJV Psalms 16:11
Thou wilt shew me the path of life:
in thy presence is fulness of joy;
at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
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Keep looking--If there were stations in towm, then someone has some stuff stashed! Advertise for it in the local paper--you might be suprised!
By the way, I get 1/2 for that little tip! LOL
Everything Cities Service
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Nice find Mike! I would have to agree with Cities Service in our area that it's hard to find. The only thing I have ever found is a band for a 48 inch sign like that one. It would look good on the side of my building. We did have a Cities Sevrice station on East Main St. across from Harmanco's.
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Sure looks better in your yard than in mine. Enjoy it
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Rust Stains are gone!! I've worked about as much magic as can be worked on this sign for now. It might make a good shop wall hanger yet! 
KJV Psalms 16:11
Thou wilt shew me the path of life:
in thy presence is fulness of joy;
at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
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Looking for any cans! PM me what ya got!
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I like it better now with the rust stains gone. Looks better.
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Muriatic Acid, BarKeepers Friend, 0000 steel wool, and elbow grease works wonders! Now do I touch it up or not???
Last edited by Mike Smith; Sat Aug 11 2012 07:13 PM.
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That cleaned up, very nice!
Dave GILL,
Dave's Garage & Memorabilia, Inc.
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I would touch up a few big chips like the one on the I. It will improve the look and still have character.
I likeShell ![[Linked Image from imagizer.imageshack.com]](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/921/7Yb02T.jpg)
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Never touch up a sign especially a cities sign that sign earned every one of those marks. They are part of its history you gotta love thinking about those ***** kids in there 57 chevy on a friday night when they put that first bullet hole in that thing. Its probly why they took it down and put up a new one. They new which kids it was but thats the mayors kid and he gets away with everything.
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