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Re: Esso Garage
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lugnet.town
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Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:54:51 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, William R. Ward wrote:
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I am pleased to announce the latest MOC to be added to my Web site, an
Esso Garage. It was included in the recent
Pleasanton GATS BayLTC show and is currently on display at the Museum of
American Heritage show in Palo Alto.
Click this image to see the rest of the pictures:
Or view it (after moderation) as a
Brickshelf folder.
Please let me know what you think. You can post your opinions here and/or as
comments on my site (my site is a blog, so you can subscribe to it using RSS,
post comments, and make trackbacks).
--Bill.
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Very nice Bill. I especially love the way you used 1960’s parts with modern
Lego. The original Esso Service Station #310/#1310 was produced from 1957 to
1966 as part of the Town Plan system built in the classic scale (door = 3 bricks
tall). The Esso Service 1x8 name beam was produced from 1956 to 1966, and comes
in several variations. There are two additional Esso items that were produced.
They were (found in spare parts packs #231/#1247) the freestanding Esso sign (3
variations) and the Esso gas pumps (4 variations). Both of these command
premium prices when found in mint condition. But I bet that there are a lot of
Esso signs that are broken (the oval Esso Sign breaks off easily) and I have
often thought of taking one of these (broken but still in good condition) oval
Esso signs and glued it to a regular brick to use in a gas station building.
One other item of note about the Esso Service Station, the 4x8 white plates with
a curved corner (they come in left curve and right curve) were so much a part of
the Esso Service Station that when the stations were discontinued in 1966, those
4x8 curved plates were discontinued as well (they exist in waffle bottom and
circle bottom varieties).
Gary Istok
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| (...) ... (...) Thanks! I'm not a collector; to me, all LEGO of any age is just fuel for MOC building. But I do get a perverse thrill out of combining things from wildly different eras. (...) I just have the 1x8 bricks from that product family. (...) (20 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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