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Re: Esso Garage
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lugnet.town
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Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:19:15 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
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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. • ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I just have the 1x8 bricks from that product family.
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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).
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I have the 4x8 white plates with curved corners, one of each side, in waffle
bottom variety. I think it came, along with the Esso Service signs and a bunch
of other old LEGO (including a whole lot of red and white CA bricks) in a bulk
Ebay auction I won a couple years ago. My Teddy Bear and Maneki Neko sculptures
were both built with a lot of CA bricks. Oddly enough, the white CA bricks are
in very good condition - not yellowed at all.
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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). (...) (20 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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