Photo similarities

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Cities Service owned the Cumberland trolley operation, among others.
Sometime in the last year I've seen a booklet or brochure that described
more of the company, but can't even remember what, let alone where!  So much
detail flashes by that I can't begin to retain it.

In college, I dated a girl whose father was in middle management at Cities
Service Oil.  They changed the name in the mid-'60s to CITGO simply to be
modern (they had their own spelling of the fuel with which most of us power
our cars as long as I can remember, which is probably only to 1954 on that
subject).  Today the company is largely owned by the Venezuelan petroleum
interests as an outlet for their production, but I don't believe it was ever
broken up in the sense of Standard Oil or AT&T.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
[mailto:owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org]On Behalf Of Fred W.
Schneider III
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 8:43 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: Re: Photo similarities


1.  I'm not going to touch the history of CITGO, but I think it was later
broken up and what we see today is a reincarnation selling under the old
trademark.  Ed Lybarger is into these things and I'm sure he can remember.

2.  Who has a list of the trolley properties once owned by Cities Service?
If my memory serves for much of anything these days, I think most were in
southern states ... places like Durham NC for example.  And who knows when
Cities Service got totally out of the transit business?  And out of other
utilities?  When, if ever, was motor fuels and lubricants their only
business?

brathke at juno.com wrote:

> I forgot to comment on a curiosity shown in one of the photos that Jim
> was asking about  -
> <http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/htm/jfp135.htm>.   Note that the
> large CITGO billboard above the trolley spells its product, "Gasolene".
> This sign was there for years, and in the 50's it carried the company's
> previous name, Cities Service.
>
> The spelling on the billboard sometimes generated comments from the
> public who said it should be spelled, "gasoline".
>
> Next time I'm in a CITGO station, I'll  look at the signs and see if they
> still sell gasolene.
>
> Bob 8/5
>
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