I got it! It's well worth the price (from several years ago). That kind of humor hasn't been seen in a long time.
If you gave Red Green a light West Virginia accent, you'd have my father-in-law. His humor was quite similar, too (and he liked Red Green). We miss him. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk
Not sure if this has been mentioned before but here's another tidbit or two: Huntington, WV also had a few Boron (TM) stations, but on the Ohio side they were SOHIO (Standard-Ohio, I suppose). Before Exxon, Huntington had Esso stations but in Kentucky--at least between Catlettsburg and Ashland to around Grayson, they were Enco. Same gas, just different labels. Dad, I think, got tired of me asking why these gas stations had a backwards 3 in their names!
Wasn't Red Green played by Don Herron? Now that would be something, trying to slide or glide a "light" WVa accent (Huntington area comes to mind!) to a Canadian actor! This would be just like Don Herron playing "Charley 'KORN' Farquaharson" on Hee Haw!!
Red Green was played by Steve Smith. Don Herron did have a few guest appearances on the Red Green Show as Charlie Farquharson, who lived in Parry Sound (and complained of the stench wafting all the way down from Possum Lake). Possum Lodge was a perfect match for the old curmudgeon!
Found this neat vintage Gulf station yesterday. Wanted to try the high test (as my Dad used to call it) at 39 Cents/Gallon, but the "dummy" in the rightmost window just stood there and never moved.
I just checked and unfortunately, there's no useful information or genuine old photos I can find anywhere on the 'net. It's in Heath Springs, SC.
Texaco was founded in Beaumont, Texas as the "Texas Fuel Company" in 1902 by Jim Hogg, Joseph S. Cullinan, John Warne Gates, and Arnold Schlaet. Its growth was so rapid and its reach so impactful that, 35 years later, Russell Lee took this photo of an abandoned Texaco station in North Dakota.
Nope, that was a different James Stephen Hogg who was Governor of Texas for a while. He only had one daughter and named her Ima.
A coupla' nice gas pumps ready for the pickin'! Sounds like something Bart Simpson says on one of his prank calls to Moe's Bar...
