Game of Travel

[yobuck]

Yes Sir !! had a flex flier in the family, but the big fun was the tobogon's
made by the Pa Dutch.

Yobuck.....Remember the Minute Man gas stations ?? My Dad was a Carpenter
and also had a mini "Case" dozer . Truck gas at Minute Man was about 20 cents
a gallon. We would stop, fill the truck, and dozer, and get a 5 gallon can of
Wolf's Head oil. I think the dozer used more oil then gas.....LOL

No Minute man was probably a regional company, i dont recall any in the SE corner where i lived.
But i do remember the 20 cent gas and having it pumped, the oil checked and windsheild cleaned also.
I do remember Wolfs Head oil and the signs advertising it. Probably many dont realize the nations first oil well was in Pa.
Still a fair amount produced there yet today.

[Fuj']

No Minute man was probably a regional company

Yeah, come to think about it, Minute Man was a sibling of the big Warren
refinery about 60 miles west of me, and I'm right on the corner of North
West Pa, on the Lake. We still are a big oil region. Just west of Warren is
Bradford Pa. Another refinery with famous names like Wolf's Head, and
Quaker State. 40 miles south of me is Titusville and Oil City. Titusville being
the first oil well. Nice museum to visit.....Back then when the original
refinery's were running, they were only producing lubricants and kerosene.
All the other flammable's were simply flushed into the rivers and streams
or burned off in huge pits.

And speaking of Bradford.....Case knives and Zippo lighters. Still have my
dad's Zippo, with the Bucyrus Erie steam shovel engraved on it.

[yobuck]

Unfortunately much of the northern parts of Pa have become Appalachia.
Sad to see what were once thriving towns turn into what they have become.
Time has simply passed them by, especially the ones farthest from the major highways.