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COMPANY FOUNDER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1868

harvey  firestone

Harvey Samuel Firestone  (December 20, 1868  –  February 7, 1938)

Firestone was a  businessman, and the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber 
Company in Akron, Ohio, one of the first global makers of automobile tires. In 1973,
Firestone was posthumously inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame.

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PUMPING GAS AT A UNION 76 STATION IN 1955

76 GAS STATION SE 1955

Rogers Union Service, on the south-west corner of SE 40th & Hawthorne
(3966 SE Hawthorne) Portland, Oregon.

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THE TEXACO DALMATIAN PUPPIES, 1952

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A NEW PLYMOUTH FOR CHRISTMAS!

NORMAN ROCKWELL AND PLYMOUTH

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EARLY CARPOOLING MESSAGE!

car-sharing club

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