Primarily Petroliana Shop Talk Forums Shop Talk Petroliana Forums Showcase and Stories, Petroliana A Lost Service Town by Curt Cragg

Curt looks like they lost a pump in 1965 and if I remember correctly the red pump was regular @96+ octane blue ethyl @ 100 octane and white pump super @102 octane. My first gas station job was in a Standard station Chevron dealer. I was 17 and it looked just like the color post card. Ted

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Ted Pam & Ethyl Roach
Lodi CA.
Looking for Signal, Hancock, Mohawk, Douglas, Gilmore and Richfield
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As Robby mentioned there are sulphur springs above where the stations sat at Las Cruces. the trailhead to the sulphur springs is still there today and if you know how to find it you can still hike up there and go swimming.

And here is a bit of irony, on the other side of the highway where the town of Las Cruces once sat is a school called Vista de Las Cruces which was bought and paid for by Chevron Oil Company because they built an onshore processing plant next door to the old school building and were required to relocate it for safety reasons.

So the Chevron station is gone, but they bought a school for the ghost town years later.

Hope you enjoyed hearing about Las Cruces.

Great job Curt and yes I enjoyed it.
See you in Escalon? March?
Ted

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Ted Pam & Ethyl Roach
Lodi CA.
Looking for Signal, Hancock, Mohawk, Douglas, Gilmore and Richfield
pca-west.org
vintage-logos

Great stuff Curt. I'm glad to see that your back with us again.... But how about that book we keep telling you to write???

I've blown off my book deadline twice, but was actually just looking at the stuff again. I have a contract to do a book for Arcadia Publishing www.arcadiapublishing.com . Should be complete to the publisher by the end of February and out around the end of summer if all goes well.

This book is about Buellton and will contain many service station photos since it was a service town.

Thanks again everyone!

2 COOL CURT... Congratulations!!!!!

I want an autographed copy...

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