Vintage Mobilgas Sign
by Catherine Sherman
Title
Vintage Mobilgas Sign
Artist
Catherine Sherman
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
"Vintage Mobilgas Sign" by Catherine Sherman.
A vintage Mobilgas gasoline sign featuring Pegasus hangs at an historic gas station in Kansas. Other signs hanging at the gas station are for Shelly and Derby products.
Many of its products feature the Mobil symbol of a winged red horse, Pegasus, which has been a company trademark since its affiliation with Magnolia Petroleum Company in the 1930s.
Mobil, previously known as the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, is a major United States oil company which merged with Exxon in 1999 to form a parent company called ExxonMobil. It was previously one of the Seven Sisters that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s. Today Mobil continues as a major brand name within the combined company.
"SOCONY" meant the Standard Oil Company of New York. The company's "vacuum" works, in Brooklyn, New York, was an alternative method of extracting useful refined products from crude oil, an alternative to heating the oil.
Featured in "Signs" group (02/03/2016); "Images That Excite You" group (02/04/2016); "Weekly FUN For ALL Mediums" group (02/05/2015); "Street Art" group (02/08/2016); "All Art Welcome" group (02/10/2016)
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February 3rd, 2016
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