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The
Legend
Number 47
Summer 2010
Oil Company Generic Maps - “StarCompass” design Part 1 by Walt Wimer RMCA #7
When I wrote the generic oil company map overview for the
last issue of the Legend, I promised I would come back with
some articles on specific cover designs used over the years.
My thought is to get started now and maybe do about one
per year for the next few years. For a starter I have chosen
what I call the Rand McNally “Star-Compass” design. One
only has to look at any of these maps to understand the
reasoning behind the name. At the top of this design is a
large banner with the name of the map found inside. Right
below that banner is a very stylish “star” which has always
reminded me of a compass. Thus the name “Star-Compass.”
Below that star is a large area for the issuing oil company or
business to display their logo or other type of advertising.
The nicest of these maps include the brand logo here, but
there are some out there that just have advertising copy in
this location. I would think the logo artwork would have
cost the oil company more than just advertising copy and
that seems borne out in that those who issued these maps, or
any other Rand McNally generic cover design without a
logo, tend to be the smaller of the small companies.
Sometimes so small they only had a couple of gas stations
or maybe even a single location.
Below the area for the logo/advertising is a body of water
with some mountains rising in the distance. Then at the very
bottom is a 1-1/2 inch band across the map where additional
information could be printed. Quite often companies would
put their logo above the water and the company name and
headquarters city below. With one exception I know of,
these were all tri-fold maps with back and inside covers that
could also be used for advertising. Those two other panels
both showed a 1940s
car at the bottom and
EDITOR’S NOTE:
above some recreaAfter receiving Walt’s article, it
tional activities such
was discovered that there are
as a sail boat, a
actually two different styles of this
hunter and a tennis
generic cover. The older maps
player. Inside those
have ten lines extending from the
two panels are large
central “star,” and rolled ends on
white
rectangles
the top banner, whereas later
where the map issuer
maps (post 1946) have only 8
could place additionlines, with “waves” in the banner
al advertising inforends rather than rolls. Compare
mation. Some went
the map cover shown on this page
so far as to include a
to the ones shown on page 4.
drawing of an oil can
or another logo, but
most were not that fancy. Some even used that space to list
all their gas stations if the company was not too large.
Rand McNally offered this design to their map customers
from at least 1942 to 1952. Over 50 different brands used
this design during the 1940s and early 1950s. Based on my
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CONTENTS
Star-Compass Generic Maps
RMCA Officers and Directors
RMCA Club Notes
H.M. Gousha’s Move to San Jose
Esso’s Pictorial Map of Denmark
50 Official State Highway Maps
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Road Map Collectors Association
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a variety of historical organizations and city commissions.
Most recently in 2009 he was recognized by the Texas
House of Representatives for his commitment to the
preservation of the history of the Bankhead Highway. You
will not want to miss this rare opportunity to get a unique
insight into one of our famous lost highways in what will be
sure to be a very enlightening evening with your fellow map
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RMCA CLUB NOTES
DALLAS MAP EXPO UPDATE
Send us your vintage Road Map photos!
We hope that many of you are planning to attend our annual
meet this year. Previously announced as our guest speaker
at the Friday dinner, Pete Charlton, has unfortunately had
some family issues come up suddenly that will prevent him
from attending.
As space permits, I thought it would be fun to publish
vintage family photos of RMCA members using road maps.
I’ll start the ball rolling with this photo: my parents looking
over a 1961 Gulf map of Philadelphia. If anyone else has an
old
photograph relating
to road maps
and
would
like to share it
with the club,
please send it
along
(.jpg
file please) to
your editor at
the email address in the
gray
box
above.
Not to worry, for Jerry Flook will be our speaker for an
exciting evening to share about the historical Bankhead
Highway. Jerry is a native of Garland, a suburb NE of
Dallas, and graduate of Southern Methodist University. He
is extensively known for his authorship of local historical
books and genealogy work.
Key to the interest of map collectors is he has also written
historical narratives for several successful applications for
Official Texas Historical Markers and Texas Recorded
Landmark designations, the most recent being for a Texas
Historical Marker for the history of the Bankhead Highway
in Garland. He also obtained for Forney a Texas Historical
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H. M. Gousha’s move from Chicago to
San Jose by Curtis Carrol (RMCA #46)
Robert R. Erving, who assumed 100% control of the H.M.
Gousha Company in late 1940, became interested in the San
Jose area after seeing a symbol for the Alviso Harbor Yacht
Club on a Gousha map of southern San Francisco Bay. He
was an ardent Lake Michigan yachtsman and was curious
about this particular club. After a visit to the club on a
business trip in early 1945, he fell in love with the entire
area, first buying a home in Los Altos and then planning to
move the entire company from the Lake Shore Drive office
it had occupied since 1930. It was Erving, incidentally, who
hired Harry Gousha into the map business as Rand’s
Pittsburgh area sales rep in 1918 with the goal of securing
the Gulf Oil account for Rand. Erving was Rand’s sales
manager of the newly formed Auto Trails division at the
time.
The site Erving wanted, 2001 The Alameda at Davis Street,
was zoned for multiple dwellings (a hotel or apartments)
since it would be adjacent to a proposed freeway
interchange and would require rezoning for this special
commercial use. Residents of the immediate neighborhood
were concerned that a map publisher would bring printing
presses, binding operations and warehousing…the kind of
manufacturing they were assured wouldn’t happen when
they built their homes. At least twelve nearby residents
signed and presented a petition to the commission objecting
to a zoning change.
Erving
convinced
the
planning commission that
the modern one-story glass
and brick ‘studio’ would
not be used for printing but
only for compiling data and
the drawing of road maps.
Also, that the proposed structure would have set-back lines
and be landscaped with lawn, shrubs and trees. “This would
purely be an office. Our Lithographing is done in San
Francisco, Kansas City, Chicago and elsewhere”, Erving
said at the commission meeting. He added that the company
would move 25 to 35 ‘high-type’ families from Chicago and
would employ from 75 to 100 draftsmen and office workers.
The use variance was granted in December 1945 and work
began on the facility promptly on January 1, 1946. The
grand opening took place with great fanfare on October 18,
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1946. The freeway mentioned in the previous paragraph,
initially state route 17 now I-880, was built in the late ‘50s
and the area that was Davis Street is now an onramp.
The entire plant cost $300,000 and the main building
measured 174 by 140 feet and had thirty-three rooms. The
three large drafting rooms were built with a new type of
polarized blue glass wall on both sides. Besides the drafting
rooms there were several research rooms, three dark rooms,
three camera rooms, two contact rooms along with other
production rooms and offices. Because of the post-war
scarcity of housing, two apartment buildings were
purchased by the company to house transplanted employees
–625 N. First Street in San Jose and 1565 Franklin Street in
Santa Clara.
The plant remained Gousha’s main business and production
office until Erving sold the firm to Times-Mirror in 1961.
Times-Mirror began
exploring areas in
the Midwest for map
production, taking
advantage of lower
operating costs and
tax incentives. They
settled on a plant
site in Comfort,
Texas, about forty
miles west of San
Antonio. Besides the favorable weather and pastoral
setting, the site was selected because of its proximity to San
Antonio Air Force bases, a reliable source of cartographic
talent.
Duties for map production and were split between San Jose
and Comfort for a time with a majority of the work
gradually being shifted to the Texas operation. Chek-Chart,
Gousha’s automotive information division, remained
entirely in San Jose through this period. When Rand
McNally purchased Gousha in April 1996, the San Jose
building was closed, as was Comfort. Chek-Chart, not part
of the Rand deal, was moved to new offices in nearby Santa
Clara. 2001 The Alameda remained empty until used as a
trade school for a short time then becoming a satellite office
for Momentum for Mental Health, a consortium of mental
health agencies.
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“Star-Compass Maps” – from page 1
personal collection and other maps I know of, it would
appear this was the most popular of all the Rand McNally
generic maps during the tri-fold period. There are several
companies that used more than one version of the StarCompass design, changing their logos, advertising or even
colors. Star-compass maps were all printed on white paper,
usually with two other colors. Most often these colors were
red and dark blue or red and black. However, at least a
couple exist with red and green or blue and yellow. And
there are at least a couple with yellow as a third color, but
there are very few of those.
As we get into some of the brands that can be found on
these maps, one must understand that the history of some of
these brands and companies is quite sketchy at best. There
are many brands that are known to have existed back into
the 1930s, but little is known on when the company was
founded and how large they became. This is especially true
of companies that folded or merged before the 1950s. Exact
dates are unknown for many of them, especially when they
first came on the scene. The info I have here is the best I can
come up with, but not necessarily 100% correct. So take it
somewhat with a grain of salt and figure you now probably
know more than you did before on some of these brands.
ANDERSON-PRICHARD “CHALLENGE”, AndersonPrichard Oil Corp., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
This company is much better
known by their modern day brand
of “Apco” than the AndersonPrichard name. The company was
founded in 1921 and apparently
marketed under the “Col-Tex”
brand in much of their early days.
Sometime they changed their
Oklahoma marketing to AndersonPrichard “Challenge” but kept the
Col-Tex brand elsewhere. Then
about 1952 Anderson-Prichard
bought the Kan-O-Tex Refining
Co., in Kansas and made some
major changes in their marketing.
They sold off the Col-Tex refinery
in Texas to Cosden along with the rights to the brand name.
Then they rebranded all their stations to the new “Apco”
brand. The Anderson-Prichard name remained as the
corporate identity until the early 1960s when it became
Apco Oil Corp. The company had some financial problems
in the 1970s and eventually became part of the French Total
operation. Most of the better stations were rebranded to
Total, but the Apco brand survived at some smaller
locations well into the 1990s. The company issued road
maps at least as late as 1976, but a mid-50s issue of a
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different generic design and a 1938 from MWM appear to
be their only other generics. At the brand’s highest point in
the early 1970s the Apco brand was flying at around 1,400
stations in 14 Midwestern states.
CHAMPION, Champion Oil Co., Portland, Oregon.
Founded by O. E. Powell in the
1910s, the company was later
incorporated as Champion Oil Co.
in the 1940s. The company
distributed gasoline under the
Champion brand in the Portland
area and up into Washington State.
At least four generic map covers
are known, two with the logo
shown here on a star compass map,
and two older ones with a trophy
logo. An interesting fact on this
brand is that at one time the famed
Bomber station in Milwaukie,
Oregon sold Champion gasoline!!
Most photos and post cards of that
famed landmark show Texaco
gasoline. However, I have seen a photo that clearly shows
Champion decals on the pumps. Was that before of after
Texaco? I don’t know for sure, but suspect before. This
brand survives today, although probably at just a handful or
less stations. I saw one near the Portland airport while on
vacation just a year ago.
COL-TEX, Col-Tex Refining Co., Oklahoma City, Okla.
Much on this brand has already
been covered above, but we will
mention it here again briefly. After
the brand and the Colorado City,
Texas refinery was sold to Cosden
Petroleum, Col-Tex was operated
pretty much as a subsidiary of
Cosden, with marketing in just
Texas and southern Oklahoma.
Cosden was bought by American
Petrofina, part of the large Belgian
international oil company in 1963,
and shortly there after both the
Cosden and Col-Tex stations were
rebranded to Fina. There are at
least two known 1930s Col-Tex
maps, one a 1938 generic MWM
issue. While part of Cosden, Col-Tex issued two very
similar map covers, one by Gousha and the other Rand
McNally, but these were not of the generic type. There were
also two generic maps from Ohlenbusch Oil Co., a Col-Tex
jobber in Lubbock, Texas and a Col-Tex 1956 generic right
before Anderson-Prichard sold the brand off. Note: The
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1940/50s logos of both Anderson-Prichard and Col-Tex
were the same with a red and white double circle with a blue
“Challenge” bar across the center. When the brand went to
Cosden the logo changed to one similar to that brand.
DS, Direct Oil Service Corp., Minneapolis, Minnesota.
This upper Midwest private
brander dates back into the 1930s,
if not before. The company
operated a chain of over 80
stations, mostly in Minnesota and
Wisconsin, before selling out to
Western Oil & Fuel in 1956.
Western owned a small refinery
and was the founder of the famed
Husky brand. But by the mid-50s
the Husky brand was being used by
the related Husky Oil Co. in
Wyoming and Western had all but
phased out the brand in their
marketing area. At that point their
two main brands were DS and
Mileage, acquired from another company.
In 1958
Continental Oil (Conoco) bought out the Western operation
and after a few years phased out DS and Mileage in favor of
Conoco. During the transition years, Continental issued
maps showing all three brands, Conoco, DS & Mileage.
Well before their days with Western, DS issued at least two
generic covers from Mid West and Gousha and had one
other generic Rand McNally in the mid-50s.
ERICKSON, Erickson Oil Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Founded by the Erickson family in
Barron, Wisconsin in 1928, this
company grew to be one of the
largest independents in the upper
Midwest and still operates today
under the Holiday name and brand.
Erickson was a country store in the
beginning but added gasoline in
1931. After World War II they
built a chain of stations across the
upper-Midwest, and then in the late
1950s they elected to change their
brand name to Holiday. The
Erickson family was quite large
and several members left the
original company to form chains of
their own under the Erickson name. That probably led to the
change to the Holiday brand by the original company.
Members of the Erickson family also got into a refinery
located in Saint Paul Park, Minnesota. Northwestern
Refining Co. would found the Superamerica chain of
stations, later owned by Ashland and now Marathon. The
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star-compass map shown here was the only generic map
cover from the original Erickson Oil Co. that I know of, and
one of the few to use yellow or more than two colors on
their star compass cover. Several other map covers exist for
both the Erickson and Holiday brands. Today Holiday
operates some 400 gas station/convenience stores in 12
states from Wisconsin to Washington.
LEONARD, Leonard Refineries, Alma Michigan.
At one time the largest independent
refiner in the state of Michigan, this
company’s roots go back to the old
McClanahan Oil Company, which
was reorganized as Leonard
Refineries in 1936 shortly after
McClanahan had entered the
gasoline business. Leonard grew to
cover almost the entire state. In
1970 they were bought out by the
French oil giant “Total” and the
stations rebranded to the Total
brand in a couple of years. Total
grew considerably in the U. S.
taking over Vickers and Apco, until
they elected to get out of the
American market, selling out their refining and marketing
operations to Ultramar Diamond Shamrock.in the 1990s.
Along the way, most of the Michigan marketing was sold
off to Marathon and rebranded. Leonard was one of the first
companies to issue Rand McNally generic maps right before
WW II and used five different designs into the mid-fifties
before they elected to use their own artwork. Then Leonard
worked out a deal with the state of Michigan to issue
Michigan “official” maps with their own cover, which they
did for 13 years until bought by Total. For a full history of
Leonard maps see Legend Number 43, Summer 2009.
MALCO, Malco Refineries, Roswell, New Mexico.
Malco was a New Mexico
independent refiner, which probably
dated back to the 1930s or before.
Headquarters were in Roswell, but
their refinery was in nearby Artesia.
The company issued maps as early
as 1942 with a generic cover before
a colorful 1945 issue from Gousha,
which was only used for one year.
Then in the late 40s/early 50s they
returned to the Rand McNally fold
with
a
star-compass
issue.
Continental Oil (Conoco) bought
them out in 1959. However, the
government went after Continental
on anti-trust grounds of having too
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much of the New Mexico market. After a long court fight,
Continental sold Malco off in 1964. Suburban Propane
owned the company and brand for a while, but later got out
of gasoline marketing and refining. After that the Malco
brand went through a couple of owners, but the brand was
still around as late as the mid-90s and a few stations might
still survive. Malco had two versions of the star-compass
map, one with blue & yellow and the other in red & black.
After issuing the star compass design maps, it is believed
that Malco did not issue maps again until the Conoco years
when the company was known as Malco Products Co. There
were two issues, one Gousha from 1960-65 and a different
1967 map from Rand McNally.
M & H, Miller and Holmes, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota.
This company was founded by A.W.
Holmes and G. O. Miller in 1896,
and not for selling gasoline. The
company
was
originally
a
wholesaler of food products such as
butter, cheese, eggs and such.
Around 1930 they opened their first
gas station and got out of the food
business by the end of WW II, to
concentrate on their growing
gasoline station chain which at one
point included sites in 12 states as
far away as Florida, Arizona, Texas
and Ohio. However, after the energy
crisis they cut back considerably to
Mostly Minnesota and Wisconsin locations. Ironically they
would get back in the “food” business when gas stations
became convenience stores. M & H issued three different
generic covers in the 1940s and then went to their own
rather plain design maps in 1949. All in all, there are at least
seven different covers into the mid-60s. Now known as
M & H Convenience Stores, M & H is one of about only
four companies on this list still in business.
MOHAWK, Mohawk Petroleum Corp., San Francisco,
California.
Mohawk was a leading California
independent refiner with a refinery in
Bakersfield and marketing up the West
Coast. This is another company/brand
that went well back into the 1930s if
not before. They had at least two very
scarce maps before the War from
MWM and Gousha and then got into
generic maps in the late-40s/early-50s.
After using the star compass design
they went to a western mountain scene
generic cover they used from the mid50s into the ‘70s. By the early 1970s
they had been taken over by Reserve
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Oil and Gas Company, an oil producer with no refining or
marketing. Over the years they had marketing in much of
the West Coast and parts of Arizona and Nevada. For a
while Getty Oil owned them having bought Reserve, but I
believe the brand was sold off after Texaco took over Getty
and hasn’t been around for years.
NUMEX, New Mexico Asphalt & Refining Company,
Artesia, New Mexico.
Not a whole lot is known about this
company except that by the 1950s
they were part of Malco. I believe
the company name was dropped
after the Malco takeover and Numex
just became a secondary brand at
third rate gas stations. To my
knowledge, the Numex star-compass
map, which is very scarce, was the
only map ever issued for the brand.
OLD DUTCH, Old Dutch Refining Co., Muskegon,
Michigan.
Old Dutch was a Michigan
independent refiner, which operated
mostly in the western part of the
state. According to what I was told
well over fifty years ago, the
refinery burned down in the 1950s.
However, the brand did not die for a
while as a couple of jobbers in
Muskegon and Grand Rapids kept it
alive well into the 1970s. It is
believed that the Aurora Gasoline
Co. in Detroit may have supplied the
Old Dutch stations after the fire.
Over the years the brand was seen
on a number of generic design maps
from MWM, Gousha and Rand
McNally, most quite scarce, with
one of the jobbers, Kamp Oil Co. of Grand Rapids, issuing
generic maps as late as 1962.
This concludes Part 1 of the “Star-Compass”
generic maps article. Part 2 will appear in the
Fall 2010 issue, Legend Number 48.
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Esso’s Pictorial Map of Denmark
by Stan DeOrsey (RMCA #76)
An elusive Esso map is their Pictorial Map of Denmark.
Occasionally one is offered on eBay and sells for a
relatively high price, yet it also appears from time to time on
eBay and remains unsold. As expected there is a story
behind this.
The map was first issued in 1950 and distributed both in a
book and separately. Furthermore the book went through
five editions, each with a very similar but slightly different
map. And the map
was issued in one of
two languages, Danish
or
English.
Possibly over ten map
variations exist. The
book was sponsored
by
the
National
Travel Association of
Denmark; Esso provided the map as a
pubic relations gesture. The map was
created by Claus
Bering. His name and
“50” appears at the
bottom of the cover.
Newer printings note
Dyva & Jeppesens
Bogtrykkeri
A/S,
Copenhagen as the
printer. Danish maps
indicate the printing
First English edition from book, 1951
year with two digits,
English maps are
undated.
The map shows a few major roads and otherwise consists of
small images of places to sightsee. It is small, measuring
15x18 inches, printed on one side only. On the first two
book editions of the map, the cover and map feature a
yellow border with light green leaves. The later three book
editions show a white border with dark green leaves. On the
first edition of the map, the Esso oval off the coast is
surrounded by a compass rose, typical of late 1940s Esso
maps. Other editions contain an unadorned Esso oval. There
is also a text box at the bottom of the cover. Copies found in
the book say “Specially prepared for “Tourist in Denmark” /
POLITIKENS FORLAG [the book publisher]” or “Specielt
udarbeijdet til “Danmark rundt” / POLITIKENS FORLAG” neither with the Esso company name.
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Top to bottom: Esso distributed about 1953; English book version 1956,
Danish book version 1958.
Those maps distributed separately apparently by Esso have
the full company name in the cover text box, Det Danske
Petroleums Aktieselskab, and probably after 1953 Dansk
Esso A/S. Only one copy has been seen and that is in
English, it is assumed a Danish edition exists. However the
copy seen with the company name has a white border with
dark leaves and an Esso oval with the compass rose. Perhaps
this is a “transition” version issued around 1953.
The book is equally interesting. It was first published in
1950 under the Danish title Danmark Rundt with the map
included in a back cover pocket. In 1951 it was translated to
English and published under the title Tourist in Denmark,
again with the map in a back cover pocket. The book
contains 224 pages, hard bound with a dust jacket. Most of
the book describes each city on the map, with the map grid
number, plus 45 city plans and 300 pictorial vignettes. There
are also various introductory sections plus three large
maps—one on the front end paper of the roads and railways
of Denmark, a larger bound fold-out map of Danish
railways, and a bound fold-out map of driving about
Copenhagen. A pictorial map of Copenhagen and a road
map of Denmark were added to a front cover pocket in
1959, neither by Esso. English editions of the book are
1951, 1954, 1956, 1959, and 1963. Danish editions are
1950, 1953, 1958, probably 1955, and likely at least one in
the 1960s. A German edition, Kreuz und Quer durch
Dänemark, was published in 1956 and 1961 apparently
without the Esso map.
There are fewer of these maps in collections than expected. I
thank Richard Horwitz and Bob McDonald for their help
and for providing scans. To complete the eBay story … look
for the book, it often gets no bids.
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Fifty States, Fifty Road Maps
by Mark Greaves (RMCA #39)
AL, 1952
AK, 1984
AZ, 1938
AR, 1936
CA, 1954
CO, 1934
CT, 1944
DE, 1952-53
FL, 1937
GA, 1946
HI, 1970
ID, 1930
IL, 1932
IN, 1945
IA, 1936
KS, 1946
KY, 1968
LA, 1937
ME, 1931
MD, 1938
MA, 1949-50
MI, 1940
MN, 1935
MS, 1951
MO, 1953
MT, 1937
NE, 1955
NV, 1941
NH, 1927
NJ, 1933
NM, 1930
NY, 1949-50
NC, 1957
ND, 1954
OH, 1933
OK, 1945
OR, 1935
PA, 1955
RI, 1938
SC, 1952
SD, 1950
TN, 1951
TX, 1942
UT, 1940
VT, 1937-38
VA, 1952
WA, 1939
WV, 1938
WI, 1919
WY, 1933
We haven’t had much on Official Highway Maps in The Legend in quite some time, so I thought I’d devote the last page here to that
subject. There is no article to go with this, just images of lots of map covers! But hopefully this will inspire some of you Official
collectors to contribute an article or two. There are no restrictions on what you submit; long in-depth analysis on an entire state’s issue,
or just a paragraph or two on one particular map – anything is fine! Contributions can be sent via email to you editor at
[email protected], or to my address as listed in the last issue of our membership directory.
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