Here's an article about old time filling stations. It's fun to go back and try to remember the old brands of gasoline. The ones I remember include: Skelly, Sites, Zephyr, Mars, Gulf No Nox, Fina, Star ...

Dickson Street and its nearby thoroughfares have seen some radical changes in the last few years, with the construction of several towering student apartments, the addition of a parking deck (and the ...

Exploration for oil began in the Ellwood-Tecolote Canyon areas of the Central Coast as early as 1897, but with little success. In 1927, two wildcat oil companies — the Rio Grande and Barnsdall oil ...

MARBLE ROCK — A former filling station that was being used as a maintenance shop was lost in a fire early Tuesday. However, a good portion of the contents, including a pickup and tractor, were saved, ...