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#420925 Fri Jun 07 2013 07:17 AM
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with the reversed colors?
I have one with the yellow background and blue letters but not like the on pictured on the right in the pic...

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Cool photo. Love the station. Do you know where this is?
I was so focused on the station did not see the writing.
Just a dumb s***

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pic says tampa FL.


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says on the photo tampa florida


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...old b/w film depicted dark yellows and oranges as dark grey or black, and blue as a lighter shade of grey...look closely: you'll notice the globes are reversed too...

...you see it all of the time on old Gulf station photos - in the photo, the orange is darker than the blue in the letters...

...for the same reasons, 'non-photo blue' pencils and Amberlith and Rubylith were once used to create mechanical art for photographic reproduction...the pencils because they wouldn't reproduce in the final artwork; and the Amber and Rubylith, because they would...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubylith

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-photo_blue_pencil

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I concur on this. It is a normal Sunoco sign in bright sunshine. In B&W photo yellow shows darker than blue, as well as the Gulf sign phenomena mentioned above. With thousands of old station photos, I see it all the time.

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