How Many Matawan Texaco Stations Left in Portland, OR?
Posted: 07 Dec 2011 06:52
How many of the Matawan-architecture Texaco stations are left in Portland, OR? The Matawan descriptive refers to the distinctive architecture that was first featured at a location in Matawan, NJ, that dates to 1964.
I can think of one in the Oak Grove-Gladstone portion of Milwaukie, OR. I can remember this location having the 1967-83 Texaco hexagon sign at first, and then it switched to the 1983-style logo (the red circle logo was at first introduced in 1981, but the 1967 logo (which itself, like the red circle logo previously described, descends from a few years earlier) co-existed for two more years) of just the red circle and white star with a "T" cutout, with the TEXACO name below it (until 2000). Many pre-1983 Texaco signs were taken down after '83.
~Ben
I can think of one in the Oak Grove-Gladstone portion of Milwaukie, OR. I can remember this location having the 1967-83 Texaco hexagon sign at first, and then it switched to the 1983-style logo (the red circle logo was at first introduced in 1981, but the 1967 logo (which itself, like the red circle logo previously described, descends from a few years earlier) co-existed for two more years) of just the red circle and white star with a "T" cutout, with the TEXACO name below it (until 2000). Many pre-1983 Texaco signs were taken down after '83.
~Ben