Jim Potts on Vintage Petroliana
By Maribeth Keane
— I became interested in Petroliana in a kind of roundabout way. I’ve been in the automotive repair business all my life, and have always liked cars and been interested in auto repair stuff. Petroliana is all about gas stations, and gas stations back in the glory days were usually involved with auto repair also. So I felt a kinship with that.
I became a serious collector in the mid 1980’s, when my wife got me hooked into a volunteer thing with the kids' school, making apple butter. They...