Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

while going to college, I worked at a Union 76 station - remember those?

I never got the cool hat.

 

when I was a kid, we had one of these across the street - the neon horse actually flapped it's wings - at night. Cool stuff.

 

uuuuummmmmmm...Spudnuts

Believe it or not, there are still 35 active stores in the US.

 

Anyone remember these in AZ?

I have a full set of the frosted in storage

 

I'm not seeing any pics...?

 

I see them! Dang @AD1 has me ready to drive all the way to Depoe Bay for a friggin spudnut!

 

I grew up in SoAz - remember the Lucky WIshbone? One of the first 'fast food' joints in Tucson. BTW - we have a Lucky Wishbone in Anchorage.

SoAz, famous for Poncho's restaurants. Tucson's Chi Chi's joint in downtown, the place where the chimichanga was born.

Debate over the origins of the chimichanga is ongoing:
The words chimi and changa come from two Mexican Spanish terms: chamuscado, (past participle of the verb chamuscar ) which means seared or singed, and changa, related to chinga, (3rd person present tense form of the vulgar verb chingar ), a rude expression for the unexpected or a small insult. In Mexican cuisine, there is a food called chamuco, which consists of a banana burned in oil.

According to one source, the founder of the Tucson, Arizona, restaurant "El Charro", Monica Flin, accidentally dropped a pastry into the deep fat fryer in 1922. She immediately began to utter a Spanish curse-word beginning "chi..." (chingada), but quickly stopped herself and instead exclaimed chimichanga, a Spanish equivalent of "thingamajig".



A chimichanga with refried beans and rice served at an Illinois restaurant.
Woody Johnson, founder of Macayo's Mexican Kitchen, claims he invented the chimichanga in 1946 when he put some burritos into a deep fryer as an experiment at his original restaurant Woody's El Nido. These "fried burritos" became so popular that by 1952, when Woody's El Nido became Macayo's, the chimichanga was one of the restaurant's main menu items. Johnson opened Macayo's in 1952.

Although no official records indicate when the dish first appeared, retired University of Arizona folklorist Jim Griffith recalls seeing chimichangas at the Yaqui Old Pascua Village in Tucson in the mid-1950s. BTW - Tucson had it's own foreign policy at that time as the city allowed the Yaqui to stay in town after the 'troubles' in old Mexico. Good food, no doubt.

 

Marketing - Quite the soap opera.

Enco was a secondary retail brand name for products of Humble Oil (now part of ExxonMobil) in certain parts of the United States from 1960 to 1977. It was used on filling stations operated by Humble in states where they were not permitted to use the Esso brand under conditions set by the court-ordered breakup of Standard Oil in 1911.

The Enco brand first appeared on gasoline and motor oil products of Jersey Standard affiliates, including Carter Oil in the Northwestern U.S., as well as Pate Oil and Oklahoma Oil in the Midwest during the summer and fall of 1960, shortly after the parent company reorganized all its domestic marketing and refining operations to former Texas-based subsidiary Humble Oil and Refining Company. In 1961, the Enco brand was introduced at Humble stations in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona - both for the stations and gasoline/oil products, as was the case in California and some other western states where Humble opened stations for the first time. The Enco brand was also rolled out for gasoline/oil products at Humble's Texas stations, which retained Humble as the station brand until that was converted to Enco in 1962. However, one state, Ohio, used "Humble" because Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio) refused to allow use of the Enco name, due to its similarity to "Esso"

Humble's advertisements promoted the Enco brand as short for "ENergy COmpany." From 1961 to 1972, Enco advertising and promotional efforts were the same as Esso's in the eastern U.S. including the use of the Humble name in advertisements along with the "Happy Motoring!" tagline used by Esso for decades, and the "Put A Tiger In Your Tank" ad campaign introduced nationwide in 1964. Logotypes for Enco and Esso were identical ovals with blue outer edge and red lettering with white background.

Despite Humble's attempts to tie Enco and Esso brands together as a nationwide gasoline marketer during the 1960s, the company was not wholly successful at competing with truly national brands such as Texaco (then the only oil company selling its gasoline under the same brand name in all 50 states) and Shell, as Humble's strongest markets remained the Esso territory in the eastern U.S. and the former Humble home territory in Texas. Despite these challenges, Humble was the most successful of several U.S. oil companies to expand marketing and refining operations to California and West Coast states as most other "newcomers" entering that region during the 1950s and 1960s such as Gulf Oil, Phillips 66, Amoco, Conoco and others enjoyed less than stellar results, and each would pull out of California and surrounding states during the 1970s.

In 1967, Humble further expanded its California presence when it purchased a large number of service stations from Signal Oil (a Chevron subsidiary) and converted them to the Enco brand, which joined a large number of stations Humble had already built from scratch or bought from other oil companies. That was followed by the construction and opening of an oil refinery in 1969. Humble also expanded the Enco brand to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, and Mississippi after the Supreme Court ruled that Humble's use of the Esso trademark in those states violated Standard Oil of Kentucky's use of the name "Standard Oil". Kentucky Standard was almost completely dependent upon Esso for its products from 1911 until 1961, when it became a part of Standard Oil of California, now Chevron.

As early as 1966, Humble realized that it needed a single brand name it could use nationwide but faced a dilemma as Esso could not be used in other Standard Oil territories and Enco had a Japanese translation as "stalled car." In late 1971, Humble rolled out the Exxon brand name at rebranded Enco and Esso in several test markets throughout the U.S. Following successful results of the Exxon brand in those areas, Humble/Jersey Standard officials in May 1972 announced that Exxon would become the company's sole gasoline brand in the U.S. later that year - replacing both Esso and Enco at service stations and on gasoline, motor oil and lubricant products nationwide (Esso was retained outside the U.S. where Standard Oil stipulations by the U.S. Justice Department did not apply). Also, the corporate name Standard Oil of New Jersey was changed to Exxon Corporation, the U.S. refining/marketing division, Humble Oil and Refining Co., was renamed Exxon USA, and the Enjay Chemicals division would be renamed Exxon Chemicals.

While the Enco brand largely disappeared after 1973, the name survived in the Midwest (an area controlled by Amoco, which unlike Sohio didn't object to Enco) for a few more years, since the Midwest was one of Humble's weaker markets. Exxon sold the last remaining Enco stations to Cheker Oil Co. in 1977 as part of its withdrawal from the Midwest outside Southern Ohio, retiring the Enco brand for good. Cheker was later acquired by Marathon Petroleum subsidiary Speedway LLC.

To be fair, all of the nation of Germany is slightly smaller than the single US State of Montana. (Germany (357,114 km²) is 0.94 times as big as Montana (381,156 km²). Germany may not have bison, but the beer makes up for it!

 

BTW - about the Yaqui Old Pascua Village in Tucson...

n 552 AD, Yaquis were living in family groups along the Yaqui River (Yoem Vatwe) north to the Gila River, where they gathered wild desert foods, hunted game and cultivated corn, beans, and squash. Yaquis traded native foods, furs, shells, salt, and other goods with many indigenous groups of central North America. Among these groups are the Shoshone, the Comanche, the Pueblos, the Pimas, the Aztecs, and the Toltec. Yaquis roamed extensively in pre-Columbian times and sometimes settled among other native groups like the Zunis. After contact with non-Natives, the Yaquis came into an almost constant 400 year conflict with Spanish colonists and the later Mexican republic, a period known as the Yaqui Wars, which ended in 1929. The wars drove many Yaquis north from Mexico and into Arizona.

Tucson 'hosted' the first village. Lots of fun history in SoAz.

 

I post this stuff as i believe most folks might be "mildly interested" and read it - but not interested enough not look it up on their own.

If it's annoying too many, I'll be happy to stop. /.

 

History

Who was the Native American Marine from AZ who help raise American flag over Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima?

 

Don't remember, and I won't cheat by looking it up, though I did see a movie about him once.

 

Ira Hamilton Hayes, USMC. He was born just south of Fenix Az. Pima Indian tribe.

They made a movie (not so good, but hey) for John Wayne - Sands of Iwo Jima - Ira played himself. I'm not sure how to take that bit. sadly, his death is nothing like protraied in either the movies or books.

I went to school is SoAz and was taught that Ira had a dream..
"...he had a little dream in his heart that someday the Indian would be like the white man — be able to walk all over the United States."

He was made famous by accident and used cruelly by many. Raised on the Rez, treated like....by the US FedGov, he still enlisted in the Corps and did his best for what he saw as 'his Nation'.

Sorry - this story is a sore point for me at many levels.

 

This is the sad part

He died of exposure to cold and alcohol poisoning after a night of drinking on January 23–24, 1955. He was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery on February 2, 1955.

 

I am unable to find the movie I referenced above, but was not either the Sands of Iwo Jima or the Tony Curtis vehicle. Possibly the Clint Eastwood Flags of our Fathers, but I seem to recall the movie was about him - perhaps a biopic on the History Channel? What I saw was exactly as DKR described, except for how he died. I have nothing but respect for Mr. Hayes and wish life and people had been kinder to him.

 

I don't mind occasional nostalgic trips down memory lane.




Big Tobacco propaganda logic....I think the text meant something quite different back in the day.

 

Well after splitting & milling wood for last few weeks , Im all fagged out !
Normal brit term for bushed tired .
Sloth