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In 1931, Cities Service completed the nation's first long-distance high-pressure natural gas transportation system, a 24-inch pipeline 1,000 miles long from Amarillo, Texas to Chicago. A logical step in the company's program for finding and developing supplies of natural gas was its entry into the oil business.
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Pioneer oilman Henry L. Doherty created the Cities Service Company. It would, eventually, lead to today's CITGO. The company was one of the first to supply gas and electricity to public utilities in the U.S.
May 19, 2017 · According to A Field Guide to Gas Stations in Texas these are some identifying features of Cities Service Stations: • Steeply pitched cross-gabled roof, with centrally placed gable on front facade • Brick exterior finish • Company logo embedded in front and side gable ends • Single-door entrance centrally placed under front gable
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Jul 30, 2023 · It was founded in 1910, not as a petroleum-dealing concern, but to supply electricity and natural gas to municipalities—hence the name Cities Service. Within a decade, however, its position in the natural-gas market made it a natural entrant into the gas-and-oil industry and it began exiting the municipal-supply business in the 1940s when ...
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Nov 21, 2014 · From around 1952, what looks to be somewhere in the Northeast, comes this faded 120 Ektachrome of a Cities Service gas station. Fillerup with Premium, and we'll be in the coffee shop while the Cadillac is on the lube rack. View full size.
As one of the first corporations to supply gas and electric utility services to the rapidly developing Midwest, the Cities Service company quickly became a significant powerhouse, and wellspring of the oil and gas exploration, production, refining and marketing industries.
Lee Hoover Cities Service / Gordon / Pre-fabricated / Shell / Wisconsin. Great old Butler pre-fab gas station. Built in 1939 as a Cities Service station, ended it’s career as a Shell Station. Like many stations it went on to be used as a Snowmobile repair shop in the late 70’s and was then L&R Motors car dealership in the 80’s and ….
