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1958 Tijuana Downtown @ The old Chevron Gas Station, Calle Revoluccion

Ken Cooke - 5-1-2013 at 05:08 PM

photo: Biancue Castro


chuckie - 5-1-2013 at 05:22 PM

That JUST MIGHT be my YELLOW Chevy parked there...OMIGOD!

David K - 5-2-2013 at 07:44 AM

When did Pemex nationalize foreign oil and take over gasoline sales? Near Colonet, Bradley's Service was a Chevron Station (1956+). In El Rosario, Baja Cactus was a Standard Station and Mama Espinoza's was a Union Station (1956-1960 photos)...

durrelllrobert - 5-2-2013 at 09:44 AM

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Originally posted by David K
When did Pemex nationalize foreign oil and take over gasoline sales? Near Colonet, Bradley's Service was a Chevron Station (1956+). In El Rosario, Baja Cactus was a Standard Station and Mama Espinoza's was a Union Station (1956-1960 photos)...


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpemeks], Mexican Petroleum) is the Mexican state-owned petroleum company, created in 1938 by nationalized petroleum and expunging all private foreign and domestic companies at that time.

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Took a long time to get those other brand name signs taken down but the gasoline all came from PEMEX; not imported

David K - 5-2-2013 at 07:19 PM

Well, as I said (and can show in photos) until at least 1960, Chevron, Union and Standard Oil had gas station franchises in Baja... I was aware Pemex was created much earlier... but when were the non-Mexican brand gas company stations replaced by Pemex... in Baja... I am guessing between 1960 and 1965, as I never saw anything but Pemex once I began going south?

Ateo - 5-2-2013 at 07:57 PM

I bet those underground storage tanks were single walled and probably leaked!! I'll check Geotracker.

=)