History Gas Station give aways & noveltys from the past

This thread brought up some good old memories. I was eat up with the space program and the Apollo missions when I was a kid. It occupied nearly every waking moment of thought. During those heady times, Shell gave away the coolest (to me) aluminum coins. they were one of my most prized possessions. I still recall some of the images on them. Around that time our house burned and I lost my coins and my live baby alligator. tough year but great old memories.

 

Here is a complete set of Blakely frosted glasses, pitcher and wood tray. from Blakely

 

These are Sunoco coins from 1969.

Stuff like Zippo lighters and keychains and screwdrivers were pointless to carry, because the help (or my boss, or my brothers) would "light-finger-louie" every damned one.

I mean, how many damned Zippo lighters does one bum need?

 

Tank tiger key chain .

 

This my Sinclair soap. I keep it in the bathroom on a high shelf. I can see some kid trying to use it if I didn't. I think they still sell it, but the new soap is white. The original soap is green.

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Now that's something I never heard of. HRP

 

So I started searching for logo soaps and darn if Sinclair didn't offer another soap at their fuel oil outlets. HRP

 

Something else I find unique is the service station salt & pepper shakers, HRP

 

At the Standard stations here, they had the full place settings.
Large and small plates, fruit and salad bowls, tea cups and plates, and then you could patch in the extras, like S & P shakers, gravy boat, butter caddy, serving dishes, ect.
I know this because my mother still has the complete 16 place setting!
She graduated in '66 and went nuts collecting the whole set. She even had friends and co-workers helping track down the missing pieces.
I don't know if they're super fancy, just simple white porcelain with thin gold rims, made by Royalton China Co. from Japan. They look nice, thou.
Stopped by her house today, and pulled them out of the upstairs closet, to snap a couple pics.


And of coarse she was a secretary there at the time, so they're packed in pretty neat, era correct boxes.

Also, note the era correct blue shag carpet still holding up.

 

My dad owned and ran a Richfield Service Station. I remember the stamps and the one thing that stands out was packets of wildflower seeds. I would grabbed some every few days and spread the seeds around my small town.

 

I had a Texaco kite. It didn't live long.

 

There ya go HRP......Esso stuff, I'm older now, these are from my childhood.

 

Here are a few I have. Not all gas but what the hell!

 

We had Mobil gas out here on the west coast. In the 60's they gave away checkered flags black and white with the Mobil red horse across the middle. I still have mine will try and get a photo tomorrow. They also had red flags with a black and white Mobil horse in the middle.

just sayin'

brasscarguy

 

Matchbooks apparently used to have the striking material on the front cover, at some point it was moved to the back. Been downhill ever since

 

COOL!! We didnt have Marathons here, so I never saw these before!

Just the other day, I was telling my 7 yr old daughter that when I was a kid, most cereals had a prize in the box. She was very impressed by that!

 

I had a bunch of those, totally forgot until you mentioned it! God only knows where they are now. Thanks for the memory!

 

This is what happens to Whistleblowers...

My '67 Falcon still has a 1972 calender on the visor. It was there when I got the car from my grandma, I figured if it had been there for 20 years already, I wasnt gonna mess with it!

 

I had Apollo coins too! All this stuff I've forgotten about! I wonder if theres a box of this crap stashed somewhere up at dads old house. I am starting to renovate it, maybe I will find some of this stuff!

 

They were not free but there was usually a machine such a this in the mens rest room. HRP

 

Phillips 66 gave out gas pump salt & pepper shakers.

 

Coffee cups. HRP

 

Forgot this one in my roadster!

 

Thanks Mark,you do have a serious collection of automotive memorabilia. HRP

 

Here is a few more from the past !!!

 

Is that one of those rubbery tasting chewing gum dispensers?

 

My wife's father owned a couple of stations and when we cleaned out his home I found this stuff which may or may not have come out of the stations. There were plenty of maps and other literature.

 

Here's another ESSO thingie for their Happy Motoring Key Club. It's the fob on my 49's key ring.

 

TEXACO EARLY 60s.