I want to point out to all the Goodyear purists that the current version of the logo (with italicized text for the words "GOOD" and "YEAR" on either side of the winged shoe) dates to 1968. Presumably, it must also have been then that the storefront adopted the neon blue "GOOD(winged shoe)YEAR" lettering on a grey storefront. The Goodyear badging on the tower sign consisted of white text amid blue background (the white text changed to yellow in more recent years).
Super S wrote:Goodyear and Firestone service centers look very much alike, and can be hard to tell from one another. I had absolutely no idea though that they sold appliances.
Yes, one must have a trained eye to distinguish a Goodyear building from a Firestone building, since in the early '70s to '80s storefronts entered a non-distinct/non-descript, or "brown," period, since their architectures tended to blend in with those of other stores, shopping centers and malls of the era.
Here is a now-defunct Goodyear store in Nashville, TN (operated by its then owners as American Tire Company, not to be confused with American Tire or America's Tire Company) from the AgilityNut site (Debra J. Seltzer's page):
More from the AgilityNut page:
(Florida Tire Incorporated, Leesburg, FL)
(Jenkins Automotive, Staunton, VA)
And here's Sutton's Tire & Chain (at 7510 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR):
Goodyear_Sutton Tire_ storefront by
TruckPR, on Flickr
~Ben
