Circa : 1935 Typical flame and torch of All Standard Oil Illuminated Signs (now Amoco) All standard stations had a pole sign- Porcelain oval called a banjo sign due to its design. Amoco’s headquarters are located in Chicago, IL and Amoco is now owned by BP since 1998 Wikipedia
Circa : 1946 Since 1870, Standard Oil has been a name made famous from the likes of the world renowned industrialist and oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller. In 1911 the United States Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil was an illegal monopoly at which point it was dissolved into 34 smaller companies. Many of these [...]
