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Service Station 1957
BGlover67:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOVcBNSjURs
I don't think it's changed much, do you?
deathsled:
Great video and thank you for posting. The one comment beneath said video sure started a political firefight.
shelbydoug:
We used to get these "shorts" in between double features at the drive ins.
I didn't think of it until now but sometimes these days when I am explaining things to someone else I often take criticism and I suppose it's because I sound like the narrator in this short film.
See. There's another reason for it not being my fault! Told ya!
98SVT - was 06GT:
Filmed in SoCal. The yellow & black plates on the Chevy weren't too far off from my parents 55 Plymouth 2 door wagon (MJB 853). Richfield today is ARCO.
You'd never get this film past the censors today - making a poor innocent child pump up the tire.
Here is an expanded Standard Oil - Chevron one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCnPexDVwI
The station in the opening with the sand in the background (and elsewhere in the film) is most likely in El Segundo - the city that was on the south side of Imperial Highway across from Shelby American was basically a company town. Chevron still holds free concerts and events for the residents in their park even though aviation now employs more than the refinery
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El Segundo earned its name ("the second" in Spanish), as it was the site of the second Standard Oil refinery on the West Coast (the first was at Richmond in Northern California), when Standard Oil of California purchased the land in 1911.
El Segundo is also home of the Zimmerman Driving Museum - LASAAC held their last meeting there - worth a visit. https://www.automobiledrivingmuseum.org/virtual-tour/
deathsled:
--- Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on November 26, 2021, 11:23:55 AM ---Filmed in SoCal. The yellow & black plates on the Chevy weren't too far off from my parents 55 Plymouth 2 door wagon (MJB 853). Richfield today is ARCO.
You'd never get this film past the censors today - making a poor innocent child pump up the tire.
--- End quote ---
Lol! Quite true. A softening of culture.
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