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Hopper wanted to paint a station with the lights lit above the pumps, but the stations in his area only turned the lights on when it was pitch dark outside, to save energy. [2] This painting depicts a Mobil gas station alongside a road, and a man alone working at a pump as evening falls. The lighting of the gas station contrasts with the ...
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Mobil station in Japan, 2008. Since the 1960s, Esso and Mobil stations in Japan had been run by Tōnen General Sekiyu, which had a controlling stake owned by ExxonMobil. In 2012, the company bought out much of ExxonMobil's stake, reducing it to a 22% minority. In 2016, ExxonMobil sold the remainder of its stake. [38]
In 1924, Magnolia Petroleum launched Beaumont's first radio station, KFDM ("Kall For Dependable Magnolene"), which would be leased to the Sabine Broadcasting Company in 1932 and sold to the Beaumont Broadcasting Corporation in 1937. KFDM broadcast at 315.6 metres (c. 950 kHz) on Tuesday and Friday evenings, with religious services heard Sunday ...
Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Allapattah Services, Inc. Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp. Exxon Neftegas; Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker; Exxon Valdez; Exxon Valdez oil spill; Fawley Refinery; Goose Creek Oil Field; Guyana–Venezuela crisis (2023–present) History of ExxonMobil; Humble Oil; Imperial Oil; Kearl Oil Sands Project; Kivalina ...
Allen Tire Company and Gas Station, Prescott; Texaco Station No. 1, Paragould; Wittsburg Store and Gas Station, Wittsburg; Ferguson Gas Station, Marshall; Jameson-Richards Gas Station, Bald Knob; Walter Patterson Filling Station, Clinton; Roundtop Filling Station, Sherwood; Langdon Filling Station, Hot Springs
The distinctive red-on-yellow Whiting Brothers signage and billboards date to 1926, the year U.S. Route 66 was designated across the southwestern United States.The father of the four Whiting brothers was a lumberyard owner, [6] leaving the family well placed to construct small, simple stations at little cost with one or two pumps and a six-foot-tall roadside billboard at various points on the ...
The Boston Citgo sign is a large, double-faced sign featuring the logo of the oil company Citgo that overlooks Kenmore Square in Boston. The sign was installed in 1940 and updated with Citgo's present logo in 1965. The sign has become a landmark of Boston through its appearance in the background of Boston Red Sox games at Fenway Park.