If you ever visit Branson,MO. there's a five and dime downtown that specializes in the more obscure older type of merchandise such as candies and housewares.
They changed to Enco, then discovered that "enco" in Japanese meant "stalled car", so it was rapidly changed to Exxon after research revealed that the word was not in any vocabulary in existence.
I think that ESSO was a step in that change too. Did a little more research and am now more confused than ever. Esso was Standard oil although both signs looked alike except for the letters. Somewhere along the line they both became Exxon, and were maybe part of the same company before that, either Humble or Standard. miles
Yeah, I forgot ESSO. And... if you weren't confused enough, seems like Gulf Oil got into the mix as well.
Dont know who owned what, but in the south it was Esso and as you went north, it became Enco. I remember well when they took down the Esso sign and put up the new Exxon sign, at the local station.
Dad traveled all over the US in the '60's working on missle sites and dams. I remember the Esso credit card was accepted at the Enco stations. You could also buy tires, get a motel room, get meals, and get money with the Esso Card.
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I don't know if its still around or not,but I used to see a lot of Dominion brand ammo when I was starting out deer hunting,in the mid 70's. I believe it was made in Canada,but I haven't seen it in a long time.
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The International Harvester line of passenger vehicles/trucks, the Scout, Pickup, and Travelall 200. Loved those trucks.
Just helped a buddy put the hood back on the twin to that Scout II! How about Newberry's five & dime? Typewriters as a whole (I used to clean Underwoods, Remingtons, Smith Coronas, Royals, etc) Garrett Brothers snuff Brown's Mule Wasn't Sinclair Oil Co the one with the dinosaur logo?
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"My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we'll put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide whether you have a right to carry it." - Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn
"My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we'll put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide whether you have a right to carry it." - Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn
They changed to Enco, then discovered that "enco" in Japanese meant "stalled car", so it was rapidly changed to Exxon after research revealed that the word was not in any vocabulary in existence.
I think that ESSO was a step in that change too. Did a little more research and am now more confused than ever. Esso was Standard oil although both signs looked alike except for the letters. Somewhere along the line they both became Exxon, and were maybe part of the same company before that, either Humble or Standard. miles
Yeah, I forgot ESSO. And... if you weren't confused enough, seems like Gulf Oil got into the mix as well.
Dont know who owned what, but in the south it was Esso and as you went north, it became Enco. I remember well when they took down the Esso sign and put up the new Exxon sign, at the local station.
Dad traveled all over the US in the '60's working on missle sites and dams. I remember the Esso credit card was accepted at the Enco stations. You could also buy tires, get a motel room, get meals, and get money with the Esso Card.
I remember writing car license plate numbers down when using gas cards.
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“In Trump We Trust.” Right????
SOMEBODY please tell TRH that Netanyahu NEVER said "Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away."
The complaints about the light bulbs are interesting.
Do many of you stick to Krypton bulbed flash lights to drain a set of batteries faster than those new fangled LED lights can do?
"My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we'll put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide whether you have a right to carry it." - Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn
Not even close to being the same quality product. Junk. You can thank the meth druggies for this one.
Why is that?
"My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we'll put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide whether you have a right to carry it." - Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn
I think that ESSO was a step in that change too. Did a little more research and am now more confused than ever. Esso was Standard oil although both signs looked alike except for the letters. Somewhere along the line they both became Exxon, and were maybe part of the same company before that, either Humble or Standard. miles
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Yeah, I forgot ESSO. And... if you weren't confused enough, seems like Gulf Oil got into the mix as well.
I always confused the secretary at work when going to the Exxon refinery I would say "Going to Esso" or "Going to standard oil". I think it took her several months to realise I was going to Exxon each time and not another refinery.
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