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The Unauthorized Guide to Collecting Sohio: Bring Your Car Up to Standard

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Excellent source of history and information. I just ordered the new book by the same author and have heard nothing but good reviews. (COLLECTING OIL CANS)

This is an excellent guide to all of the Sohio memoribilia. Anyone who enjoys perusing antique stores for petroliana will enjoy this book -- especially since it is the first of its kind for Sohio merchandise!

The book looks very promising at first glance. You get a 4 page history (nothing here). Chapter two is 50 pages of oil cans , moth spray and home drip oil cans dated through 1989. Mainly 20/30 buck stuff.(moth balls and parrifin,WOW).After pages of Maps, credit cards,calenders,salt & pepper shakers and ice scrapers, now the meat.Pumps and globes.I was ready.18 common globes pictured, I can accept that.Two whole gas pumps pictured.(50's Tokheim,wow).A small globe list.1/3 page(no pics).Then 70 pages of signs, patches, uniforms,toys. No mention of years of pumps built specifically for Sohio,the hundreds of offshute globes used. Islander lights,air machines, the stuff you drove up to are not to be found here. All the unique to Sohio station things in the 30's,40's,50's. Not pictured here.If your looking for that memory of pulling into an old "modern" Sohio,this book is a blackhole. Great icing, NO CAKE!