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]

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.

Lol! Quite true. A softening of culture.

[mark p]

at least "the attendant" knew where the filler was on that Chevy 
(One of my buddies had a '56 in the early 70's... it could be comical watching the guy try to find where to put the hose)

Seems like that poor lady wasn't much of a car-person, she was low on air, water, and oil 

cool historical video - thanks for posting.

[69mach351w]

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
.
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/

El Segundo, isn't that where Fred Sanford's Junk yard is

[Side-Oilers]

I think Fred's junkyard was supposed to be in Watts. 

[98SVT - was 06GT]

I think Fred's junkyard was supposed to be in Watts.

Yes but the PC Watts - South Central
El Segundo was a joke line - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV3vrp-wFQY

With the refinery on the southside of town and the City of LA sewage treatment plant on the north there is no wonder that they have a web page for: Odor/Air Quality/Environmental Concerns  https://www.elsegundo.org/our-city/odor-environmental-concerns
BTW houses are 1.5 to 2 million on average.

[FL SAAC]

the good old days!

[Side-Oilers]

I think Fred's junkyard was supposed to be in Watts.

Yes but the PC Watts - South Central
El Segundo was a joke line - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV3vrp-wFQY

With the refinery on the southside of town and the City of LA sewage treatment plant on the north there is no wonder that they have a web page for: Odor/Air Quality/Environmental Concerns  https://www.elsegundo.org/our-city/odor-environmental-concerns
BTW houses are 1.5 to 2 million on average.

Semi-dirty joke below. Please skip this if you might be offended.
 
My Dad worked at Hughes Aircraft, which had their main facility in Culver City, as well as other facilities in nearby El Segundo.

The joke he told me when I was about 14:

Bob, who works in the next office to me, told me he took home a great-looking woman last night. 

After an hour of heavy kissing, she said "kiss me where it smells."

So, he drove her to El Segundo.


 

[FL SAAC]

LMAO

I think Fred's junkyard was supposed to be in Watts.

Yes but the PC Watts - South Central
El Segundo was a joke line - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV3vrp-wFQY

With the refinery on the southside of town and the City of LA sewage treatment plant on the north there is no wonder that they have a web page for: Odor/Air Quality/Environmental Concerns  https://www.elsegundo.org/our-city/odor-environmental-concerns
BTW houses are 1.5 to 2 million on average.

Semi-dirty joke below. Please skip this if you might be offended.
 
My Dad worked at Hughes Aircraft, which had their main facility in Culver City, as well as other facilities in nearby El Segundo.

The joke he told me when I was about 14:

Bob, who works in the next office to me, told me he took home a great-looking woman last night. 

After an hour of heavy kissing, she said "kiss me where it smells."

So, he drove her to El Segundo.

[shelbydoug]

I think Fred's junkyard was supposed to be in Watts.

Yes but the PC Watts - South Central
El Segundo was a joke line - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV3vrp-wFQY

With the refinery on the southside of town and the City of LA sewage treatment plant on the north there is no wonder that they have a web page for: Odor/Air Quality/Environmental Concerns  https://www.elsegundo.org/our-city/odor-environmental-concerns
BTW houses are 1.5 to 2 million on average.

Semi-dirty joke below. Please skip this if you might be offended.
 
My Dad worked at Hughes Aircraft, which had their main facility in Culver City, as well as other facilities in nearby El Segundo.

The joke he told me when I was about 14:

Bob, who works in the next office to me, told me he took home a great-looking woman last night. 

After an hour of heavy kissing, she said "kiss me where it smells."

So, he drove her to El Segundo.

[69mach351w]

I think Fred's junkyard was supposed to be in Watts.

Yes but the PC Watts - South Central
El Segundo was a joke line - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV3vrp-wFQY

With the refinery on the southside of town and the City of LA sewage treatment plant on the north there is no wonder that they have a web page for: Odor/Air Quality/Environmental Concerns  https://www.elsegundo.org/our-city/odor-environmental-concerns
BTW houses are 1.5 to 2 million on average.

Thanks 98SVT  S&S never gets old, laughed all the way through 

[deathsled]

I think Fred's junkyard was supposed to be in Watts.

Yes but the PC Watts - South Central
El Segundo was a joke line - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV3vrp-wFQY

With the refinery on the southside of town and the City of LA sewage treatment plant on the north there is no wonder that they have a web page for: Odor/Air Quality/Environmental Concerns  https://www.elsegundo.org/our-city/odor-environmental-concerns
BTW houses are 1.5 to 2 million on average.

Semi-dirty joke below. Please skip this if you might be offended.
 
My Dad worked at Hughes Aircraft, which had their main facility in Culver City, as well as other facilities in nearby El Segundo.

The joke he told me when I was about 14:

Bob, who works in the next office to me, told me he took home a great-looking woman last night. 

After an hour of heavy kissing, she said "kiss me where it smells."

So, he drove her to El Segundo.

Great joke.  True that one never knows who might get offended these days.