History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

A Mack Switcher

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Another Mack Switcher



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A Maudsley petrol shunting locmotive







A Blake petrol locomotive



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Schlumberger on location at Kern River, California in 1933



Mud Engineer test the mud properties of the drilling fluid



Crew laying pipe in 1930 in Texas



Texaco Roustabouts sitting on their crew truck



Oil Field Workers going to the field on and old chain driven truck.



Christmas Tree were installed to control well after Spindletop



Gulf Tank Truck in 1933



Hazen Willett, standing, in early 1900's at Pt Vernon. Loaded with products at Pt. Wells, WA to be taken to Concrete, WA, a four day round trip.

Thanks to Ray M. Airone a CRA member



Standard Oil of California





Standard Oil of California delivering oil to the California and Hawaii Sugar Co in the early 1900's.

These two pictures were salvaged from the trash by a niece of Tom Hanson, a CRA member



Texaco Tank Truck in 1910



Texaco Products Truck making a call on the Service Station



Texaco Doodlebug. In 1935 Texaco designed this tanker to provide greater economy, ease of operation, increased visibility, and greater capacity



Gypsy Oil company car. Gypsy Oil was formed by Gulf in 1907 to manage the Glenn Pool Field in Oklahoma. This picture was taken in 1917. The man is Art Morrison



Indian Oil Company was purchased by Texaco in 1931. With the purchase they obtained Havoline



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The first service station in the world 1907. John McLean of Standard Oil of California in Seattle Washington set up a pump, wood driveway, a canvas canopy and a display of oil products



The first service station in the world that was designed to be a drive in station open its pumps on 1 December 1913 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Gulf Oil



Dome Oil Company station ca 1920. Dome Oil merged with Pinal Oil Company ca 1911 to form the Pinal Dome Oil Company. The company was bought by Union Oil ca. July 1917. The truck is a Garford ca 1918



Union Oil Station in Irvine, California in the 1930's



Barney Oldfield getting his car filled with Union gasoline



Like this early Standard Oil of California station most gas was dispensed at the curb



Skelly Oil Station in 1925



Paragon Oil Company was mainly a distributer of fuel oil in the northeastern United States



Calpet Oil Company service station 1929-30. Texaco bought California Petroleum Company in 1928 making Texaco the first company to market in all 48 states



Amelia Earhart getting galoline from Union Oil


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An 1898 Winston semi-truck carrying a new car

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Crossett began its oil hauling business with one secondhand 780 gallon tank mounted on a White chassis in 1928 in Warren, Pennsylvania. The company grew into a major transporter of petroleum products in the eastern U.S.

Drake Well Museum

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Autocar advertised that "More even weight distribution on all four wheels is an added Autocar advantage for hauling shifting loads of gasoline and oil." The company headquarters was in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

Ad from National Petroleum News, January 7, 1925

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Red Crown Station in California



Associated merged with Tidewater Oil to become Tidewater Associated Oil Company Associated's trademark, flying wings attached to a letter "A" for Associated, became the new company's logo





Early Stations were people like this that installed a pump and became a service station or filling station. This Texaco Station is Circa 1920



This Union Oil Station in Mapel Valley California is another example of the little stations



Texaco Bulk Distrubtion in the 1920's



Gulf Oil Station in the 1920's



Texaco Station in Seattle Washington in 1920's. This was a Capet Station before Texaco bought it in 1928



Customers in the 1930's at a Gulf Station having a cold soda pop while the Gulf attendants service and fill their cars



A Gulf Station 15 December 1921 at 4225 N. Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennslyvania



Lady in a Stutz Bear Cat getting gasoline at a Standard Oil Station



Union Oil Station in 1915 at Olympic National Park in Washington State



Pure Oil Company sponsered race car driver Giles Hanson 29 August 1932



A Red Crown Station in Spokane Washington in the 1920's



Calpet Stations were a little different, but all stations had some gimmic to sell gas. Here in 1922 women were used to pump gas







A Chevron attendant servicing a roadster at Adams & Vermont, in Los Angeles, 1928



A Union of California Station in 1936



Union Oil Attendant assisting a customer with directions

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Police officers stand on a moving truck while movers prepare to load items from Chapman Bank for its move from 185 Middle St. in Portland to a new location in the Chapman Building in Monument Square.

 

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Two Lombard steam loghaulers on their way to the spool mill. They are carrying spool bars 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" x 4' of white birch. The South Lincoln spool mill was located on present day Mohawk Road.

 

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This fire engine belonged to the Lisbon Falls Fire Department at the turn of the century. Fire trucks, such as the one pictured here, were built in response to the Great Fire of 1901, an event that reduced the business section of Lisbon Falls to smoldering ashes.

The fire on April 6, 1901 destroyed 31 buildings and left only two stores standing. More than 50 families became homeless, and the total cost of the damage was estimated at $200,000.

 

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Fred W. Belcher (second from left) makes some adjustments to his Knox racer, No. 15, in front of the stables at Poland Spring. Belcher was entered in the Thurlow Hill Climb in nearby South Poland, scheduled for June 17, 1911.