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Please - NO offers to Buy or Sell in this forum category
Statements such as, "I'm thinking about selling this." are considered an offer to sell.
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Thanks Bryce, This is great !!
Last edited by Keystone Gas Man; Fri Nov 20 2015 05:47 PM.
Looking for Keystone,Pure,Sinclair,Texaco,Sterling and Gulf...Thanks, Brian
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Looking for early valvoline, freedom-valvoline, franklin pa items, Galena
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Nice job Bryce thank you very much !!!
Thanks
Mike
Always Looking for any Pure Oil and Sunoco Items.
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Nice job Bryce thank you very much !!! X2.. ... 
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Awesome post Bryce!!! It's nice to see something other than this is for sale or that is for sale or how much is this worth or how do I clean pigeon cr@p of my porcelain sign or my sister need a damn present for her husband or.... Except one little problem. No Sunoco!!  Just kidding of course!!! I love this post!!!
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Always interested in Sunoco items!
Really want a Sunoco National pump ad glass!!
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Probably the main reason Old Gas is so much better for collector information than Facebook. The searchable history is much better. Facebook is set up nice to post pictures and sell stuff but old Gas is a gold mine of archived information. Both are tools for the collector.
Shout our to Jim for all he has done for the sight over the years.
US Air Force Retired, 1981-2007
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What's with all the old pics?
I click on Pennzoil link and all the pics are gone!!
That aint cool!!!
BTW, newer webpage format WAY COOLER!!! Don't like that old blue page.
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Really want a Sunoco National pump ad glass!!
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Steve; a lot of images were hosted by Imageshack and other image hosting sites... As such, they disappear either when a Member leaves the hosting site or just the normal turnover of filling storage space on the particular hosting site... The older the thread, the more chance some images have disappeared...
As to no SUN Oil COTM threads;... You know that the Membership only did a COTM thread on "Important Oil Company's"... LOL
Looking for Tide Water/ Tide Water-Associated/ Tidewater items
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Nice job, Bryce. Thanks. Lots of great info on those links.
The images missing on those older topics are due mostly to ImageShack and PhotoBucket deleting images that they host after a while. Images uploaded to Oldgas.com using File Manager will stay available on our server as long as the Oldgas.com stays online. No images are deleted to save money or make free space. Over 120,000 File Manager images so far. Another 100,000 petro images still available on our other servers at GasPumps.info and Cruisin66.com
Jim "Oldgas" Potts
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I sure do regret not using the file manager for photos in the Mobil COTM I hosted. It sure makes for a lot of holes now.  Darin
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see me at Mason Dixon Gas, Spring Carlisle M114-115, and Hershey C4E-35.
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The images missing on those older topics are due mostly to ImageShack and PhotoBucket deleting images ...
Yah I figured that was the issue Jim. Just went to look at the Conoco thread. Same thing. No pics. I'm hoping guys will take note for future COTM threads and upload the images onto Oldgas instead of using a hosting site. Maybe in time some of these threads can be recreated.
Steve Coppens
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Really want a Sunoco National pump ad glass!!
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When I did the COTM on Sinclair in '04 I used AOL to host the pictures. AOL discontinued hosting pics so they were all lost. It was a ton of work to post pics back then. The direct upload we can use now eliminates about 75% of the work!
A lot of work went into all the features we did back then. Besides Company Of The Month we had Sign Of The Month, Globe Of The Month, Map Of The Month, Can Of The Month, Pump Of The Month, Restoration Of The Month, Story Of The Month, Collectible Of The Week, Collectibles Of The Month, Buys Of The Week, Found Along The Way and probably a few others that don't come to mind right now. Some were short lived, some ran for many years. They all took a lot of effort by someone for the benefit of all.
Wanted: Gas pump globes:Sinclair & affiliates, IL companies. Ripple bodies. Anything Sinclair, Stoll, Pierce, 4 Bros. http://www.lastgas15.com/
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i hope jim does not mind me sharing this.
Nearly every picture that was uploaded to our site since 1996 is still on one of our servers. All of those will display on the appropriate page. The missing pictures were uploaded to 3rd party hosts like ImageShack, PhotoBucket and others. Most of those hosts will delete images off of their servers after a period of time. Oldgas.com has only deleted images in a small handful of cases, usually involving copyright or privacy issues, never to save money or free up space. Our current File Manager upload process is set up to keep images online as long as the site is online. Over 120,000 images have been uploaded via File Manager to Oldgas.com in the last couple years.
When you see the "X" or empty box for a missing image, right click on it and choose "Properties" or "View Image Info" to see the .com address of where the image used to be. Sometimes there is no placemarker for a missing image, so the original host would be more technical to figure out.
The large numbers of images and other files are part of the cost of the site. But the largest cost factor is the number of simultaneous processes requested by many users. The oldgas.com server gets over well over 150,000 page view requests per day with a dozen or more processes involved in each page view. The server is equipped with its own dual core Xeon processor, solid state hard drives and fiber optic to the Internet. Look at the fine print near the bottom of forum pages to see the speed and processes involved for that page, such as:
"Generated in 0.026 seconds in which 0.010 seconds were spent on a total of 17 queries"
It is annoying that so many older valuable topics have images that are missing. If I would have known years ago that the free image hosts would delete images, I would have started archiving those images to keep copies on our servers. You may get lucky and find some of those old topics have been archived with images at The Internet Archive Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.oldgas.com
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