Posted 10 years ago
Rattletrap
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We are told that this UTOCO sign we bought at a local Utah swap meet at Thanksgiving Point this year, came from Marysville Ut. It is supposedly the nicest one in the State. In any event it is a nice addition to our collection and goes with the series of Utah Oil Company signs. The oldest Company in Utah was the predecessor to UTOCO and was called Utah Oil Refining Company. That story is for another day, but this sign is a great one to fit with its later name of Standard and then on to American and then to Pan Am and finally to AMOCO before it was eaten by a really BIG fish! Chevron! These cool old Porcelain signs are getting very rare and hard to find as well as expensive when you finally locate one. Looking for porcelain signs and gas pumps is a lot like fishing: there is a lot of fishing and little of catching! Some days the catching is good and that has given us a pretty nice collection for all to enjoy at aaaLakeside Storage in Provo Ut. Its FREE and you can take all the pix you want. Enjoy the past, but we're temporarily out of the Full Service and .19 cent gas!
Great sign.
Do you know why most oil companies used red white and blue? Just related to nationalism?
In this case it was because Standard Oil owned a big chunk of the stock and these are the colors and the logo that Standard used. You can see from the adjacent signs that Standard sign faces are exactly the same size as is American, which was also owned by Standard and as was Pan Am which was also owned by Standard and was AMOCO which, no surprise, was also owned by Standard. The sign faces a all exactly the same sizes and are interchangeable which none of the rest are exct for the round signs which are 6' diameter and interchange. Lots of other signs are different color combinations like the Malco we recentely posted, the Phillips. Dixie, Texaco, Sinclair, etc, etc.
Thanks Rattletrap!
Small world.... I bought the American sign that replaced the UTOCO sign you bought in Marysville, although I was lucky to get the banjo pole, cauldron and porcelain lights with it!
I would like to visit with you can u email me at kauairooster@gmail.com or just call me at 801-380-800two