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Re: From our Archives: History of Standard Oil and Bell System

Robert Bonomi (bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com)
Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:28:05 -0000

In article <telecom24.252.12@telecom-digest.org>,
Nathan Strom <nstrom@ananzi.co.za> wrote:

> TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to Steve Sobol
> <sjsobol@JustThe.net>:

>> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: In much of the midwest area now, Amoco
>> does business as 'The Standard Oil Division of Amoco Oil Company'. PAT]

> All the Amoco stations near me in CT have re-branded in the past couple
> years to BP.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I try not to think much about Chicago
> in recent years, but I think my brother told me that Amoco stations
> around Chicago are no longer 'Standard Oil Division of Amoco' but now
> are a sort of green color with the BP signs on them. I really do not
> know for sure. PAT]

The AMOCO label has been gone from the Chicago area for several years.
They're all BP now.

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