Primarily Petroliana Shop Talk Forums Shop Talk Petroliana Forums General Petroliana Discussion Rio Grande Serv. Sign information wanted

I just picked up Saturday a Rio Grande Serv. (service) porcelain neon sign... missing the neon. It's rectangle.. sort of... 19 inches tall and about 8 feet long. Tu-tone blue and white letters. I have both sides, but I think there is a center that holds the wiring, transformer and frame to hold it up. I looked in the Gas station company sign book and nothing mentioned like this. Does anyone have one or know when they used it?

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Thanks Lyle drolds@earthlink.net

Here's a Rio Grande map graphic. It's probably like what is shown at the top of the map? If you have a photo of the sign you can email it to me and I can post it for you. That would help a lot. thepoormansmuseum@verizon.net

Thanks... I'll e-mail shortly. Lyle

Here's the sign. Looks more like the canopy sign than what I was thinking. Missing the can that goes between as you stated. I'm guessing this one was used 40's-50's, but someone else here may know better than I.

Thanks for sharing it with us!

nice signs

...any chance this was a 'privilege panel' (personalized with the garage name) for a larger B. F. Goodrich neon sign? I'm not down with Rio Grande's marketing, but the 'light blue/white/dark blue' sure reminds me of B. F. Goodrich...

...just found this ashtray image on ebay - although it's only one blue (probably due to the added cost of another color) that bottom sign sure looks like yours...



[This message has been edited by gulfiend! (edited 03-19-2007).]

Yes the shape does look close, but who knows. I'd like to see a picture of a station with my sign. Does anyone else have a sign like this in their collection?