Saturday, August 15, 2020

Wallet Card at a Getty Station

 Haven't had a chance to do a wallet card post in a while. There is a good chance that I will be full-time working from home even after the pandemic ends, so my 20 years of daily commuting into the city would be over. There's less wallet-card fodder here in the suburbs, but hopefully I'll be able to stumble upon something every one in a while.

Getty used to be one of the leading gas station chains in the northeast. In fact the company used to be so big that they owned several other unrelated assets, including ESPN, which they sold to ABC in 1984. Getty went bankrupt in 2011. There is still a Getty Oil website, but it hasn't been updated since 2015 and most of the links don't work.

This station on Atlantic Avenue in Baldwin, NY stopped being a Getty about 15 years ago, and was completely abandoned about 10 years ago. Getty signage used to be pretty common, but now it is very difficult to find a station of any kind with a visible sign.


2 comments:

  1. Is Getty the guy who wouldn't pay the ransom when his grandson got kidnapped?

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  2. When I saw this photo, it kind of reminded me of the convenience store in Clerks for some reason.

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