Flying A Gasoline Tapestries
Description: In the year 1900, a pipeline salesman named W.S. Porter convinced the five largest oil companies in California's Kern River Oil Field to enter into an agreement to turn over their interests to form a new oil company in exchange for stocks and bonds. With those five plus agreements from 34 other companies in the area, the Associated Oil Company was born on October 7, 1901 and began producing petroleum products under the Flying A brand within a few months. By the end of the decade, Flying A was refining their own crude and producing gasoline, motor oil, kerosene, and a variety of lubricants. As cars became commonplace in the '20s, so did gas stations, and Flying A branded service stations began popping up throughout California and beyond.
Description: Associated Oil Company was an American oil and gas company once headquartered in San Francisco, California and served much of the Pacific West Coast, including Hawaii, as well as the Orient and merged with the Tidewater Oil Company in 1938. Beginning in 1934, Associated Oil Company commissioned a series of photographs to be taken to record the progress of construction on the Golden Gate Bridge and San-Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge projects.The projects were of special interest to the Associated Oil Company because they provided Flying A Gasoline and Cycol Motor Oil almost entirely for the projects.
