Highrise Tower Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 Interesting! There was actually Humble gas stations back in the day. Found this business advertisement in the newspaper The Bellaire Texan dated December 5, 1947. Complete Auto Service Wash and Lubrication Prompt Road Service Atlas Tires and Tubes Humble Service Station No. 1050 Lewis L. Cook, Agent 6719 South Main / L. 1687 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 14 hours ago, Highrise Tower said: Interesting! There was actually Humble gas stations back in the day. Found this business advertisement in the newspaper The Bellaire Texan dated December 5, 1947. Complete Auto Service Wash and Lubrication Prompt Road Service Atlas Tires and Tubes Humble Service Station No. 1050 Lewis L. Cook, Agent 6719 South Main / L. 1687 Prior to the creation of the name "Exxon" in the early 1970's, Standard Oil of New Jersey stations in Texas and other states used the "Humble" name. Jersey Standard was not able to use Esso in most of the US due to trademark issues with other former Standard Trust companies like Amoco, Chevron, etc. In addition to Humble, there were also stations branded as Enco, Carter, and a few other names, generally using the blue oval with red letters. Humble Oil was founded by Harry Wiess, Walter Fondren, Ross Sterling, and others who sold half of the stock to Jersey Standard to get funding. By 1958, Jersey Standard had bought all of the stock of Humble and it was a wholly owned subsidiary. It operated as Humble in Texas due to state law restricting what Jersey Standard could do. My grandfather worked for Humble Oil for 33 years. He had a company car with a large Humble logo on the side. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rexster314 Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 My Dad operated an Humble Oil service station in College Station, Texas from 1942 to 1978. It went from Humble, to Enco, to Exxon over those years. It was a full service station with vacuum cleaners on the poles by the gas pumps. Cars coming in got a full vac, windows wiped down, under hood checks and tires checked if you got 5 dollars worth of gas or a fill up. The station was at East Gate of Texas A&M 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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