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From my uncle who has lived in Spokane all his life -
The station in the picture is on Monroe Street by the bridge, that's Sears behind it and off of to left is Montgomery Wards which is now Spokane City Hall
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Looks like the Spokane public library was built on the site of that station--I just google visited it!
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Thank you Bobs!
That last pic shows me the next neon sign I want to find!!
LOOKING-4:WELDING SIGNS,Charter/Finance/PulOil/Trulite/TruTest-Oils,True's gas CORALINE/RAINBOW, Gardner 70 items of Yakima wa., Wa/Or/Id Chief items
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Dave according to Bob's story, rainbow became carter of which you have 2 signs which then went husky. So you Carter signs have more in common with Rainbow and not Esso? that should pique people's interest in the carter stuff!
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Thank you to you and your Uncle for passing on that info on the location in the picture.
I'm going to put together a couple of stops for me to do for a Rainbow field trip to Spokane and I will take good pics to post.
I sold the worse cond. Carter and then I saw it on ebay for $600 buy it now/offer. He still has it and I still have the better condition sign that I might be keeping with this.?? I think that the Carter sign would look great on the side of my Shoppe with the license plates and writing.
I need to do the research to tie all these together.
LOOKING-4:WELDING SIGNS,Charter/Finance/PulOil/Trulite/TruTest-Oils,True's gas CORALINE/RAINBOW, Gardner 70 items of Yakima wa., Wa/Or/Id Chief items
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This is not the same place. Just something I found. Thought is was neat with the same name. It says Jerry's Rainbow Texaco Kalispell Montana
Always looking for grizzly gasoline stuff, or any Montana gas and oil stuff.
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Dave according to Bob's story, rainbow became carter of which you have 2 signs which then went husky. So you Carter signs have more in common with Rainbow and not Esso? that should pique people's interest in the carter stuff! Just because a station gets rebranded to a different oil company doesn't necessarily mean that the previous oil company was bought out by the new one.
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My source (Jon Roma's road map website) states that True's Rainbow was sold to Standard of Indiana in 1959.
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My source (Jon Roma's road map website) states that True's Rainbow was sold to Standard of Indiana in 1959. Maps more or less has it correct . I sent Bob some info a while back stating the very same facts . As far as I can tell, the refinery in Washington is still owned by BP/Amoco ......... Ed Shaver
see ya on the road folks !
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