DX Gas Stations - Life in America
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Thank You for taking back to a time I cherised growing up in. I wish I could go back to those days & stay there, not to return to current day life.
Sad, but true
Same here, I would trade it without a thought.
I miss the Sinclair / ARCO service station I worked at in late 60’s
Gas stations used to offer road maps for free. Those were the days.
Road map, checked tires, oil and battery, washed ALL the windows and if requested checked radiator, antifreeze, air cleaner, transmission fluid, power steering fluid and brake fluid. You could spend ten minutes on a single $2 purchase. Usually when it was raining, cold than a tax collectors heart or had five other customer in line. Now places the sale gas not only make you pump the gas yourself, but charge a buck or more for four minutes of compressed air.
Free maps was soon followed by Texaco and Phillips 66.
They also had free air, a rarity nowadays. Now its 25 cents a puff, lucky if that inflates one tire.
@@dadillen5902 At some grocery stores, they make you check out your own stuff but they don’t pay you for doing that, nor do they give you a discount for your labor.
I have one of those old D-X signs in my attic in good condition.
I'm sure it'll be worth a lot
I got 50 cents.
I remember working in a Hess filling station in 1968 after school and on weekends for $1.00 per hour. It was full service and self service. During the summer I worked full time. Full service was 23.9 cents per gallon for regular, and self service was 21.9 cents. When things got slow you could go into the garage and "bust" tires for $2 each. I worked there for almost 2 years and saved up $500, and my Dad deposited another $500 in my bank account as a reward. Through out life I kept saving in that same bank first with my pay while in the Navy during the war, then afterwards with jobs until the 1980's after I got married. We bought our first house with those savings and C.D.s. and money market investments throughout the early 1980's, paid for it outright. I wouldn't trade anything in my life, but I sometimes wish the way things were then would be the way things are now. But at 69 years old now that's just a pipe dream.
Thank you for sharing this 2 years ago. Your honesty and your thoughts are commendable. Also beyond that you paint such a fantastic picture and you're teaching lessons for those who are willing to read.
You and me both pal. God bless
I remember DX stations. We'd take my mom's station wagon on trips to Iowa. It was a gas guzzler and had a penchant for breaking down so we got familiar with gas stations along I-80.
Another hit out of the park for Recollection Road! When I was growing up my dad had a friend who owned a DX station several blocks from our house and his station did all the work on our cars and we always got gas there. They had a cool promotion where based on how much gas you bought or other products you would get this cool toy car race game which I really liked.
I also remember in the early 1970s getting a pull string talking Santa Claus toy and NFL football player sticker books there. Great memories as a kid of DX.
Was it a motorific set ? I have the one that was exclusive sold at DX !
Let’s go down to the DX station and get a Coke and a bag of peanuts, and put the peanuts into the bottle for a special treat while drinking the Coke.
I’ll have my peanuts with a RC Cola, please.
Why the heck did we do that anyway?
@@josephinethomas7236 No idea. I seem to remember that it was hard to get all of the peanuts out of the bottle.
@@josephinethomas7236 don't know why ,but i'm gonna do it again ,today!!
The reason they put peanuts in the pop is because the salt on the peanuts would cause the pop to fizz and you would get a different flavor and you would get a peanut or 2 with each drink of pop.
I have a motorific set that was sold exclusively at DX stations it came from one in southern Indiana I now have the neon sign from the pole out front ! A friend of my father owned it when the owner died I asked for that sign and was told if I would remove it I could have it ! I hired a boom truck to take it down . The building was soon demolished.
I remember Sunoco service stations on every States, east of Mississippi River back in the early 1970s when the maps are free. There are DX service station in some Great Plains States. States includes: Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Protecting the trademark
According to all their TV commercials, it's pronounced "Sun-O-co", not "SUN-uhco". 🤓
There were DX gas stations in Canada until the 1990s. The one in my home town caught fire.
Where in Canada did DX have gas stations?
😂👍🏼🖖🏼
My mother always uses that little glasses-wearing emoji. It always makes me happy to see it and think of her.
@@darrylh1971 There was one DX station on Dundas st in Whitby Ontario in the 1960s and 1970s just as you entered Whitby from Oshawa, they were not that common for gas stations but they had DX gas stations all the way east to Belleville Ontario. The Kaneb family from Cornwall Ontario bought the rights to the DX name for use in Canada in 1988 and they were around till the 1990s, they also sold home heating oil by tanker truck too.
Did the police ever catch you??
"DX Super Boron- Drive a car that's alive!"...Radio jingle from my childhood.
“D-X Gasoline, it’s the very best gas around!” I remember that TV jingle.
As a kid I remember the TV and Radio ads for DX SUPER BORON Gas
I sure remember DX stations but don’t recall any advertising for them, but I didn’t watch a lot of TV back then. Not much to watch back then as we only had 3 channels and that was when the weather was good.
I remember at least two DX stations my father used during the 50's and early 60's located on Admiral when I was a kid. I seem to remember one near the Traffic Circle and the other up around Sheridan (I think). My dad got me a train set there one time after a few fill up's. I remember at some of those stations they used to give out glass drinking glasses with a fill up, some of which my family still has today (in our china cabinets). We have some cool frosted glasses with Indians on them as well. I remember the gas was like less than 30 or 35 cents per gallon. We lived between Memorial Drive and Mingo Road. We spent a lot of time at Hank's Hamburgers and Cotton's for food. We moved away when many of the homes around us were condemned for the new Crosstown Expressway and they started grading the earth for the freeway. By then that was 1967 and we moved to California.
The Indian glasses were promotions of Kerr-McGee stations. Last time near the area Cottons is gone but Hanks is still there.
We had an entire set of green drinking glasses from our local Ashland station. My wife still has a flat strainer from an Esso station. It has their tiger on it.
I remember this as a kid. My mom and dad knew the station owner and attendant by name. This was the one gas station they stopped at, and this was a time when service, loyalty, trust and friendship existed in business. If we all would slow down and relax and just take a moment to thankful.......
Lovely, as I love vintage gas stations. I've missed lots now on these days.
The train set was a MUST HAVE when we were kids. Loved me some DX!
When I left the SW Ohio area in 2015, there was still a gas station flying the DX sign along a state route east of Cincinnati.
I love USA life and classic cars and trucks.God bless USA.
When you did not need 89 computers in you car and the only black box held cash.
I remember more gas stations we had in Texas that bit the dust:Skelly,Ritters,Hornet (of Tulsa),Sinclair.I also remember what fun it was to take a road trip and see all the highway signs and billboards (till Lady Bird went a little crazy!)
Sinclair with the dinosaur on the sign.
The are still tons of Sinclair (complete with green dinosaur) gas stations in Nevada.
Early on (1968-1973) Roger Penske Racing was sponsored by Sunoco but in about 1973 it changed to Sunoco-DX sponsorship.
PUT A TIGER IN YOUR TANK!😉
@@joesmith4222 That wasn't DX. I think it was ENCO, now Exxon.
Most of the sponsorship money came from the Canadian Sunoco company, until Sunoco got into NASCAR sponsorship out of Philadelphia.
Another great video. I am so glad I found this channel. I have not been disappointed yet.
LOVE the mid-century designs on those stations...architecture is so boring today.
Agree 100%
Great point. There is just something about Mid Century commercial and residential architecture that screams warmth and Americana. It beckons a cross country road trip with stops at every mid century diner I can find.
Miss those cool parking lot area and service station outdoor light fixtures at the angles
Not unlike the people. Oh for the days when people could disagree without everybody getting all butt hurt and violent. Wait forgot about the 60s. Never mind.
I agree, state to state, city to city, all the franchise business are the same. lol
Beautiful music, great video. Enjoyed it very much, thank you.
My dad and I ran a DX Station in 1958 to 1962 years we give out green stamps for customers and our gas prices was 31cents per gallon back then ❤
I grew up in Tulsa with the DX brand all over the state and city of Tulsa, they were every where.
That was where of of the senes in the outsiders movie was!
as always great content i never imagined all the pictures you find and post of the past existed
We had one in Roseland Indiana
Corner juniper and 933 hiway
Lol.... "Michiana"
When we were kids, Texaco gave out plastic fire chief hats. Sinclair gave out a series of plastic dinosaurs and most had a giant one outside. Purple Martin gave steak knives with a fill up. Somebody gave out Wiki Wiki Dollars for a trip to Hawaii
I had a hat,toy gas pump and toy tanker truck from Texaco!
Remember the orange styrofoam balls Union 76 would stick on your antenna?
I remember Texaco also had a gimmick where they'd hook a plush tiger 'tail' to your gas filler door to coincide with the 'Put a Tiger in your Tank!' promotion.
I remember the parents had gotten a set of drinking glasses from the Tresler-Comet gas station in Cincinnati. And there were dinner plates that we'd managed to collect from the SOHIO station down the street (Sohio was the local variant of Standard Oil). I think I still have one or two of them in the attic.
I seem to recall that a gas station gave my mom some sort of bobblehead dog for her dashboard.
@@bubbastill2040 I forgot about the fire truck you could get. But now I can remember seeing the fire truck in the window at the gas station.
@@xaenon THE TEXACO FIRE CHIEF would burn that tiger out of the tank.
The tiger & tail were an ENCO {EXXON/MOBIL} promotion in the 1960's
@@glennellis1584 EXXON! THat's right, I misremembered. Thank you! I remembered the tiger tail in my big brother's Cougar.
Wonderful information thank you
I worked for a little over 2 years at a DX station. The owner was so mad when he had to get the pumps "fixed" to go to 52 cents per gallon (51.9 actually). We had sold regular for 38 cents per gallon but the new "premium" had a higher price.
I remember in the 1970s when many gas station operators refused to get the new pumps to handle the $1+ price of gas. So, they set the price to half. If you wanted $5 worth of gas, you'd run the pump until it displayed $2.50.
I also remember all the heartburn that caused - people would see you pump $2.50 worth of gas when they told you $5 and get mad, thinking we were
cheating them.
It used to piss off the inspectors, too. See, the authorities have to verify and certify that gas pumps and similar equipment dispensed the amount it was supposed to, and obviously with the pumps set to read at one-half.... yeah. Eventually, the city made the gas station operators install the newer pumps.
@@xaenon We had some exciting stuff at our DX as well. A state trooper shot a hole in the desk (where the cash register was) as I was standing there ringing something up (the bullet/slug went between my legs). The troopers would always stop and clean there cars up, he was vacuuming his car out and the vacuum cleaner handle hit the trigger and bang (boy it was loud). The trooper flipped out (seriously), my boss came from around the corner and settled him (the trooper) down. He.... discussed (that's a good term) why the trooper using the car "before" him, would leave the gun, cocked, no safety on, anyway. A different desk was delivered "that night", yes, that evening and the next morning, it was like nothing ever happened. I was "debriefed" that morning and handed 200 dollars, we rarely ever spoke of it again.
@@bertholini2810 That's just a bit terrifying. Glad you weren't hurt.
Working overnight at a Sohio station (Standard Oil of Ohio, later BP) in the mid 1980s, I had a rather different experience involving a gun. Thankfully, that one didn't go off.
@@xaenon At my age now, I realize that he (the trooper) could have shot me, or my boss, or himself, or a gas pump (which with the fire involved, would have killed us all). That was in the 60's, and I am an old man now. Be good, be safe !
@@xaenon @ 28.9 for regular, 32.9 for ethyl, you could not get $7.50 in a Cadillac.
I put 30 gals in a Fleetwood Cadillac one morning for a woman @ .49.9 a gallon.
She almost passed out when I charged her card $15.00
We had a DX truck stop in Hays, Ks. in the 70’s.
Remember pulling into the gas station and running over the little black hose that made the bell ring? 2 or 3 attendants would run out, one would clean the
windshield, one would check the tires and the other would gas you up. Days gone by. Not to mention free road maps and no charge for air in the tires.
My grandfather ran one of the DX stations in Tulsa for several years in the 70’s.
Great video here. DX was just a bit before my time, but I do remember seeing the logo. Not many, if any full service true service stations left. Great memories. 👍
I really appreciate this about the DX gas station ⛽. It is about a history that is older than me. I'm not let my life and the life of this company did not overlap. All I know of it is from pictures and from hearing people talk. I vaguely remember the Sunoco brand. That was mainly from TV watching an occasional movie about auto racing. But somehow watching this made me feel a little more peaceful about our history. 👍
in 1965 I went to work in a gas station with 16 pumps, had to lie and tell them I was 16, lol. After a short while, I worked that station alone until 10pm and would close it myself at 15 years old.
Good lad, I bet your parents were proud.
Hey yes we gunna see great service and oil checks. Also Green Shield stamps!
All us gear heads put Sunoco 260 in are cars. I remember paying 50 cents a gallon. That was a lot of money back in the 60s.😆 Now they want 3 dollars for a bucket of low octane camel piss.
Remember also they had the blending pumps .
On a recent trip to Nevada I came across a gas station that had 85 octane gas. Never seen that before anywhere.
“DX” was the name of my platoon in PLDC! Lmao
My dad at age 23 bought and ran his own DX station in New Castle, Indiana. I wish I had pictures of him there.
Grandparents at one time owned a DX station.
At one point they owned a Sinclair station.
I can find lots of Sinclair reproductions but there is hardly any DX stuff to be had.
Thanks for the video, lots of great pics.
I worked at a DX station in the late 1970's.I was 16 years old and I learned alot about service and customer service.I will never forget the sound of the bell when a customer pulled in and ran over the hose to prompt you.And yes we did check under the hood,checked tire pressure and even the spare if they asked and washed the windshields,front and back.The cash register was an old ornate gold relic with a handle you pulled down to process the sale.It was an old antique then.I feel very fortunate to have had that opportunity to work there.
DX pumps had a sight glass with marbles that rolled around so you knew the gas was clean.....
considering the huge popularity of radio listening then,, DX means long distance.
Growing up in west Texas, there were no DX gas stations. When traveling to Oklahoma twice each year to visit relatives, I knew we were in Oklahoma when I saw a DX gas station or sign. DX and Sinclair signs meant we had entered into Oklahoma.
Sinclair became ARCO in Texas in 1970, while the Sinclair name remained in Oklahoma. DX never had a Presence in Texas.
You pronounce Sunoco with long “O’s”. It stands for Sun Oil Company.
Yes, Sun-OH-co!
~ SunRay DX, Skelly & Continental Oil Company {CONOCO} ( THE HOTTEST BRAND GOING) with their triangle brand emblem were mainstays in the midwest.
My grandfather & father owned PARADISE FORD, GARAGE & CONOCO, in Tulsa Oklahoma on Paradise Street in the 1930s. i remember pics of the place well. Don't forget the S&H GREENSTAMPS !!!>>>>>>>
AS a boy in the 1950's in Omaha Nebraska I well remember the SunRay DX stations, oil pyramids in the windows, tires & batteries on display and the ANCO winshield wiper cabinet on th fuel aisle.......
DING DING, FRONT BOY !!!!!!!!!
I always press the like button even before the video starts. I never do that with other channels
We lived in NJ and CT and there were Sunoco stations all over the place. My father always got gas there; he'd always get 2 dollars' worth back in the 50s. That bought you a tankful in those days.
"DX" is also an old radio term for "distant" or "distance"...
Fun to see! I had forgotten all about DX.
Can you please do a video documentary on Standard Oil of Indiana? I'd like to see the evolution of the Standard Oil Division of the American Oil Company service stations in the Midwest and eastern Rocky Mountain states.
As a Hoosier myself, I wholeheartedly second this.
Sun-A-Co? say it with me. SUN-OH-CO... lol
I suppose a hallmark of a popular channel, is when the video receives several 👍before the video is even aired
My grandfather opened a Standard Oil station and by the time my dad took over operations it had changed to Chevron. I would spend much of my summers going to the shop with my dad, sweeping up and sorting soda bottle returns from the little grocery attached to the station. When I got older I worked the pump line to let the mechanics concentrate on the service in the bays.
The self-serve gas at the convenience stores took a bite out of dad's business. Especially because they were selling the gas for basically the same price he was paying for his gas. He held until the mid 80's before pulling the pumps out and becoming just a garage.
My uncle Bob ran the dx station at 21st Ave east and London Rd in Duluth MN until about 1976.
This is one I never heard of! I knew Gulf, Esso!
Those stations seem like they were in about every Iowa town back when when I was an kid. Nowadays it’s Casey’s being all over here
I love this America...
During college, I worked in a Phillips Gas Station. Good job, but I had to spend a long time Sunday eve scrubbing my hands and nails to get rid of the grease, so kids didn’t know that I was a pump jockey. Had these little old ladies, come in everyday, wanting the air in their tires checked?
Living in the East, all of our local Sunoco stations used to have a little D-X sign under the main sign. Never knew what it meant, since all of the products at our stations had the Sunoco label on them. We never had D-X stations here.
Ironically before the video there was an ad for Mylanta anti-gas medicine. 😁
Cool place to hang out too 👍 kinda like folks do in Barber shops.
Nice video, well put together.
never heard of DX Gas Stations this is very Intresting
Yeah now it/s just expensive convenience stores selling a bunch of overpriced junk food and very little of anything else but gas!
That junk food is a god-send on a long journey with no towns or stores.
We did a lot of road trips back in the 70s and would usually Stop at D-X for fuel & refreshments we pulled in late one night with some lighting problems on a horse trailer and lucky for us the garage attendant was willing to help though he just clocked out at another D- X we got a flat repaired With a Oil change good quality caring D - X Service professionals
I love your videos so much!
"Soda-Pop"
I never heard of DX gas stations. Where I come from we had Texaco, Union 76, Richfield, Standard, Chevron, Mobil, Phillips 66, Shell, Esso, Gulf, Flying A, Sunoco, etc. Nowadays I buy gas at Costco. When I was in the Army, DX meant direct exchange, discard, or dispose of.
Another great video !
I have only a vague memory of ever having seen a DX station. I remember seeing Sunoco stations more than DX.
The DX station was the turn around point for cruising the town strip. Clarence Missour there is " Lyle Vanhouten's Gas Station Museum" it is an MFA station, but quite cool.
D-Generation X just Pumped in to my Mind lol
D-X and Skelly were all over Iowa. We had a D-X on one end of main street and a 66 on the other. The Standard and Sinclair were down on the highway. All gone now.
My Father was a geologist for Mobil Oil Co. But he would only buy his gas from DX.
Awesome video thank you
I always want to own a station like this but by the time I was old enough selling gasoline and running a station was not profitable due to the fact that everything was turning over to self service no longer was gas stations needed just go to your local market. What a shame such a great American Legacy gone who would have ever thought that you have to stand in line at a grocery store just to buy a quart of oil. Just does not make sense not to me anyway.
I forgot to add that EPA was up all the small station owners asses so bad that it put them out of business you cannot compete with government agencies.
I don’t remember seeing this brand in our neighborhood before but boy Sunoco was big, along with Mobile and the dinosaur.
Thanks.
My first car was a Toyota Corolla DX!
My dad had a small union 76 station in. Hedgesville wv in the 70s i sure miss those days
Don’t forget to mention the free map!
We had one of those green soap dinosaurs about three inches long that was in Mom’s bathroom cabinet as late as 2006. It came from the 1950’s as advertisement for Sinclair “Dino” Gasoline. 1945 till 1963 were probably the best years in the USA.
The Sunray refinery in Sunray , TX is still there. Brand name is now Valero.
Awesome.. Do it for Johnny!
I don’t even see Sunoco gas stations anymore.
Wow I really enjoyed this video because I don't remember DX. Im 48 and from California so maybe thats why.
During the 60s when we lived in NJ, I remember gas stations giving bubble gum and sometimes toys to the kids when parents gassed their cars.
I use to have a Noah's ark boat, free from a gas station and then each time they would give an animal. I can't remember the name of the gas station that did that.
I think it was Hess, with fill up they gave a toy gas tanker truck.
I can remember as a kid when my mom would go to the drive-thru at the bank, the teller would sometimes send back a lollipop for me in the tube along with my mom's receipt.
@@mikeywestside8509 Yes, nearly every bank I can remember giving lollipops. I don't know if any still do it. I know much has changed.
I remember Sunoco gas stations.
I remember seeing that DX sign a lot when we moved from Minnesota to California, and then for much of I-80 on a later Eastern move(I don't recall them anywhere past Iowa or Illinois) to New York.
I the 60s my uncle had a DX station in Minneapolis.
I lived in New York for 20 years and never saw one. None in New Jersey of Connecticut either.
DX stations were only found as far east as Indiana
Circa 1968, Tulsa: 41 & Yale near Southroads mall & Southland mall a Texaco station on the NW corner, Gulf NE, Standard station SW corner. Three stations at one intersection, might have been four had the landscape on the SE corner been conducive, but the Conoco station wasn't but 1000' south.
I remember the jingle, "There are hundreds of gasolines, but only one DX".
in the 60s my mom just signed for a $1 of gas and would pay at the end of the month.
I would like to see a video of the Sinclair and Purple Martin Brands
4:28 It's pronounced Suh-NO-co!
Does anyone remember if DX had heating oil I'm just about sure in the 50s and 60s that we bought our heating oil there and I know that in the early seventies we change to Standard Oil
In the mid-1950's, my dad owned a Bulk DX tank-station & delivery truck. I used to ride with him as often as I could, delivering gas & diesel to farmers all year long; & fuel/heating oil to town & country folks, in the winters.
Many times he delivered fuel/heating oil without being paid, to "poor" folks.
My uncle still had an oil tank behind the house, sporting a badly faded DX logo. It was still there in 2007 when he finally passed. This was in rural central Illinois.
The house had originally belonged to my grandparents, and I'm reasonably sure that tank had been installed in the early 1960s. The telephone number under the logo was the old-style alpha-numeric type. I can't recall the exact number, but it was like CH7-9834 or something similar.
And yeah, Uncle Steve was still rockin' an oil furnace, so someone was still coming around every so often to fill that tank.
@@raallen1468 Yup!...back in the days when many businesses offered in house credit! We had a little country store in the little town that I grew up in that did that with groceries & gas. They had a book & they'd just mark down your amounts & people paid on their balance week to week or month to month. The limits for each family were determined by how good they were on payin' on their balance of course.
Hope in the future you do more Recollection Road videos of gas station chains such as:
Esso/Enco/Exxon
Texaco
Sinclair
Atlantic/Richfield/Arco
Union 76
Skelly
Hess
Sohio
American/Amoco
BP
Gulf
Phillips 66
You think you're a big gas station? (Ha ha ha ha...)
Treat you like you're a little gas station
Yeah! Break it down!
1:38-Man had to suck getting your face driven into the ground every time you came to get gas.