Originally Posted By: LC 336
I have been blowing the pictures up at home but they are not real clear. In the first pic just under the roof canopy it says "Toot an " I cant make out the rest.


TOOT-AN-KUM-IN

A play on King Tut's name.

Here's a quote from the SHORPY website...

"This Amoco station at 14th and Belmont streets N.W. in Washington's Mount Pleasant neighborhood opened in July 1925. After the discovery of King Tut's tomb, the vogue for all things Egyptian extended even to gas stations."

Sell me your Gilmore Oil Co. stuff...