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SAGINAW — Eric Schantz’s plan to revamp a historic and neglected gas station with a new paint job has been temporarily thwarted by rain. “I won’t be able to work on that mural today for ...
I know because I worked for Standard stations from 1951 to 1959, and owned a Chevron station from 1959 to 1960. Standard stations were phased out in the 1960s and possibly ’70s.
As an oil billionaire from Texas, he's a fitting owner of a gas station painting. The collection of his late ex-wife, Anne Bass, was the subject of a dedicated single-owner sale at Christie’s in ...
There's a curious reason why one gas station in California is not like the others. ... In the landmark 1911 U.S. Supreme Court case Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v.
Ed Ruscha painted an Amarillo gas station 60 years ago. That painting, "Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half," is hitting the auction block this month at Christie's in New York.
A Standard Oil station at Oppdal in Norway's Trøndelag county. Photo: Hans Joramo, with thanks to Morgan Frelsøy and Lars Gisnås ...