Filling Station

[davetranter]

U.K. again

'Full Service' or 'Attended Service' where an attendant pumps fuel for you is getting very rare here, except in rural areas. There is an 'Attended Service' station surviving in a rural village near to my home, it is also a repair garage. The fuel is (as expected) dearer than elsewhere, but during any fuel shortages (of which we have had a couple in the last decade or so), his regular customers are always sure of a supply, because he won't serve any 'panic buyers' who turn up.... Good for him!!

Hope this is of interest....

Dave T

 

[petek]

Gas station give-aways

Early childhood memory of when Texaco stations gave away kites every spring. That was always exciting. Esso eventually came out with their tiger tails but that wasn't a yearly event like the Texaco kites. I really remember bugging my dad for one of those tiger tails and one day he came home with one dangling out the gas cap.
I also remember the Sinclair over the river giving away inflatable Dino's which led to more pestering my dad lol.

 

[westingman123]

Give-aways

Oh, I had forgotten about those! The Shell station gave out glassware with each fill-up. Frugal Mama collected quite a set of those. Seems like Sinclair gave out paper hats, but that's a vague memory.

 

[rp2813]

Free Glasses

Oh yes, "Shell" glasses were common in our household and some of our friends'.  They were smoked glass, perhaps 12 oz size.

 

This was before we owned a dishwasher, and I remember our friends' glasses were badly etched from trips through their KDS-16.

 

[washlogic]

Hess Stations

My favorite memory as a child of the 60's was the HESS gas stations and how they used to display those white and green toy tanker truck replicas for sale on top of the pumps. I remember how they had working headlights. I wanted one in the worst way. I believe that they may be collector items today.

Anybody remember that?

 

[wayupnorth]

Promo items

I have one of the Texaco fire engines from the 60's and a Presidential coin set from Sunoco that ends with Lyndon Johnson. Besides the tiger tail and blow up Sinclair dinosaur I also had as a kid, remember the plastic horse shoes from Gulf.