Texaco → ??? → Shell → Amoco
WEEK 1 – Amoco Returns!
(cont.) Per this post, this property began as a Texaco, but that station would have been demolished in favor of the structure that stands in its spot now. I know it was a Shell immediately prior to Amoco (images of this, too, may be found within that linked post), but that doesn’t necessarily mean it started out as such… any help would be appreciated!
Here we’re simply taking another look at the right side of the station, facing June Street, complete with canopy. Just like my very first pic in this album, this one sadly didn’t focus completely :( But it still gets the point across, I hope!
Note also, if you zoom in, how the individual pump numbers (1, 2, 3, 4) exactly match the current BP style, except in blue instead of green. Besides that little detail – and the use of the “Invigorate” fuel brand – I wonder if anyone who doesn’t know of the BP connection would be fooled; after all, as the BrandNew logo review I linked to last time wrote, “Many people will not know Amoco and BP once were the same company… it’s been almost 20 years since the merger and that’s a whole new generation of gas guzzlers.” And especially if BP cards don’t work at Amoco stations (unsure on that one)… that’s one heck of a way to distance the two brands from each other, yet ultimately double the business for the same company!
Amoco // 5521 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, TN 38119
(c) 2020 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Texaco → ??? → Shell → Amoco
WEEK 1 – Amoco Returns!
(cont.) Per this post, this property began as a Texaco, but that station would have been demolished in favor of the structure that stands in its spot now. I know it was a Shell immediately prior to Amoco (images of this, too, may be found within that linked post), but that doesn’t necessarily mean it started out as such… any help would be appreciated!
Here we’re simply taking another look at the right side of the station, facing June Street, complete with canopy. Just like my very first pic in this album, this one sadly didn’t focus completely :( But it still gets the point across, I hope!
Note also, if you zoom in, how the individual pump numbers (1, 2, 3, 4) exactly match the current BP style, except in blue instead of green. Besides that little detail – and the use of the “Invigorate” fuel brand – I wonder if anyone who doesn’t know of the BP connection would be fooled; after all, as the BrandNew logo review I linked to last time wrote, “Many people will not know Amoco and BP once were the same company… it’s been almost 20 years since the merger and that’s a whole new generation of gas guzzlers.” And especially if BP cards don’t work at Amoco stations (unsure on that one)… that’s one heck of a way to distance the two brands from each other, yet ultimately double the business for the same company!
Amoco // 5521 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, TN 38119
(c) 2020 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)