oil cans. A scale-model Mobil gas station sits in a corner. Rows of original Mobil, Gilmore, Socony, Vacuum and Standard signs cover the walls. Cabinets and shelves are filled with Mobil ...

It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a time when gas cost less than a dollar per gallon. Those were the glory days of ...

Standard stations were owned and operated by Standard Oil Company and sold Chevron gasoline and other Standard Oil products. Chevron stations were owned (or leased) by individuals. I know because ...

This Standard Oil red crown gas pump globe came from a gas station in Minnesota. My dad worked for Standard Oil in the 1950s and 1960s and when that gas station was remodeled, the old globes were ...

The dilapidated 1930s Standard Oil gas station was in the perfect spot – a corner not far from the Missouri Botanical Garden, a medical school and a beautiful park. That was enough to catch Ben ...

Ruscha, who was born in Oklahoma, first saw Standard Oil gas stations during a 1962 road trip to Los Angeles along Route 66, according to Christie’s. He was enthralled by the contrast of the ...

A 100-year-old gas station is Los Angeles’ newest ... Rock Valley Historical Society to declare the former Standard Oil Company Service Station a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

He made a road trip between his old and adopted homes in 1962 along Route 66, and it was on this drive he saw the Standard Oil gas station that he would make famous. Ruscha painted multiple ...