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Mon Feb 06 2017 12:40 PM
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I wouldn't swear by it but what I heard from an old feller was that The Crypto Electrical Co gasoline / Kerosene pump was quite a deal for it's time. The 4 head independent clock dial metering system was able to serve 4 customers at a time. The fame was short lived as electricity was still a new thing on the frontier and lighting at the pump was not yet thought of. candles were generally lit in the evening to provide adequate lighting. Unfortunately the candles had a tendency to ignite the gasoline fumes, ultimately destroying the pump as well as the service station. Lawsuits would follow and THE CRYPTO ELECTRICAL Co was no more. I don't know for sure on this as the Crypto factory had one of the pumps sitting outside their own factory which actually exploded leveling the entire facility. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/922/1iwYnD.jpghttp://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/923/ccYbhF.jpghttp://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/923/nDYsh8.jpg
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Yikes! That is crazy cool! Never seen one of these, thanks for posting.
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That's great Rick.
Missed your Christmas card this year.
Looking for photos, etc from 60s era Shell-A-Rama gas station and Pal's Diner, Rt. 17 Mahwah, NJ & US or state highway signs, shields, route markers
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Very nice. Would look a lot better without all that screening around it's glass.
Collecting Vintage Sunoco
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That's to keep the chiguns in. Nice job Rick.
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I guess after the glass was broke out they welded that stuff in to keep the hoods out. It was in kind of a rough part of town just off of 12th street and Delmar.
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-Steve B. (WTB: 48" Flying A button, 48" black/org Phillips 66, White Star, and Chevrolet Signs. Also looking for a Wayne 866. Send a PM. Thanks.)
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Collecting Vintage Sunoco
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Thats a super cool and unique pump!
Braden Splichal
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