The famous Amoco sign at the corner of Skinker and Clayton Avenue is getting a paint job on Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. Photo by J.B. Forbes, jforbes@post-dispatch.com ST. LOUIS — After nearly two decades, ...
CLAYTON, MO – It`s a ubiquitous oversized part of St. Louis. Only the Arch along the riverfront or catsup bottle in Collinsville or Budweiser Eagle can lay claim to being a bigger iconic landmark ...
You may have seen gas stations with a torch logo popping up recently, but you might not know that the story behind that brand ...
ST. LOUIS — One of St. Louis’ most iconic signs recently got a facelift. You’ve probably driven by it hundreds of times… the Amoco sign at Clayton Avenue and Skinker Boulevard is hard to miss. Since ...
Amoco, the iconic red, white and blue gas stations that disappeared nearly 20 years ago after the company’s merger with BP, are beginning to pop up once again in Chicago and a handful of other markets ...
Yes, it’s verifiably the world’s largest. And it sat atop an actual Amoco till 1998, when British Petroleum bought the company. But there’s been a big sign—and a gas station—there since 1922, “which ...
ST. LOUIS — Most everyone has seen the enormous Amoco sign at Stevenson’s Hi-Pointe Amoco. It’s been a fixture at the corner of Skinker and Clayton Road for years. “We try our best to give good ...
The pumps at Williamsburg Super Service on Richmond Road have gone from Amoco colors – red, white and blue – to just plain white; from pouring Amoco gasoline into customers’ tanks to filling them with ...
A Lake Worth gas station operator who says he is being forced out by BP Amoco protested the oil company’s actions on Wednesday. Other gas station operators and their families joined him. “Amoco. Don’t ...