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LOL!! Sorry I couldn't resist!!! 
Steve Coppens
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Statements such as, "I'm thinking about selling this." are considered an offer to sell.
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I wouldn't want to mess with her.
Have gas all the time
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Ethyl looks to be a force to be reckoned with !!
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Rough times in those years.
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from a time when people still expected to work for a living
Follow the Red Indian Trail
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Collecting Vintage Sunoco
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from a time when people still expected to work for a living Isn't that the truth!
FREEDOM oil items wanted.
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Don't mess with that woman!
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That generation had hard lives. They lived through the great depression then sent their son's off to World War 2. They didn't have the government social safety net, so when their jobs disappeared they often packed up their families and moved to wherever they could eek out a living.
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That generation had hard lives. They lived through the great depression then sent their son's off to World War 2. They didn't have the government social safety net, so when their jobs disappeared they often packed up their families and moved to wherever they could eek out a living. Very well said!
Dave GILL,
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I can remember many old photos where a woman of that stature would be married to a skinny guy. Stern faces with few smiles. Times could be tough, but they somehow pulled through them.
Jim "Oldgas" Potts
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I bet she was Miss Devils Lake, SD back in the 30's. Can you confirm this Kevin
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She resembles the Motherpenn oil can woman.
Last edited by 47reo-travis; Fri Apr 10 2015 06:35 PM.
I like SINCLAIR and old American made stuff ... No china items.
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Maybe she is the (widowed) owner of the station...it looks like a man's coat she is wearing. Or at least it's a coat too big for her. And just looking at her face, I bet she was a sweet looking round-faced young woman, like the face Betty Boop was modeled on. IMHO
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FWIW, and so that Nicole or anyone else doesn't think bad on me, my only point in this was that she was standing right next to the word Ethyl. At the moment, I just found it a little silly. That's all.
Steve Coppens
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she looks like she's ready too step into the ring - I'd hate too be the kid caught taking change out of her purse for the ice cream truck ... 
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I have a large newspaper ad dated Aug. 31st, 1928; touting the "New Partnership" between Tydol and Ethyl....
It could be, she was a "young" Model in '28???????
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I didn't think the joke was bad  We have all see the photo of Ethyl drinking from the pump...Lol I just was wondering what would make a woman of her age pose so proudly. My guess is wife, owner or mother. And looking at faces and wondering what they looked like younger is an occupational hazard! 
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Judging by the globes, that picture was taken in the early post war years.
Although my grandmother didn't look like that, she wore coats like that. That's how older women dressed and posed for pictures back then.
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