{"id":9920,"date":"2012-01-21T03:56:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T03:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=9920"},"modified":"2014-08-20T00:46:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T00:46:36","slug":"service-station-no-6-white-rose-motor-gasoline-greektown-toronto-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2012\/01\/21\/service-station-no-6-white-rose-motor-gasoline-greektown-toronto-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Service Station No. 6 &#8211; White Rose Motor Gasoline &#8211; Greektown &#8211; Toronto, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/canada\/toronto_motor_gasoline.jpg?resize=575%2C385\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"385\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">750 Broadview Avenue &#8211; Greektown &#8211; Toronto \u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In the early days of the Canadian Oil Refining Company (1901-1904) and the Canadian Oil Company (1904 -1908), gasoline was an almost useless by-product of the petroleum refining process. So much so that gasoline was only casually mentioned in their early advertising. It wasn&#8217;t even given a &#8216;brand&#8217; name.\u00a0However , by the time The National Refining Company (Ohio) purchased controlling interest in the company (Dec. 1908) , the automobile craze was about to boom. The new Model T Ford, introduced October 1 , 1908 at $1150 (Cdn.), would fall to a low of $395 (1925) and be within the reach of much of the population . Gasoline would no longer be that useless by-product.Canadian Oil Companies Ltd. now had Nationals, &#8220;White Rose Gasoline&#8221; brand name , the market and the product . How could they go wrong? &#8211; <\/em><strong>J. Williams &#8211; White Rose Motor Gasoline<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/canada\/whiterose-gasoline.jpg?resize=577%2C241\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"241\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">White Rose Motor Gasoline &#8211; Vintage Signs &#8211; J Williams<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early days of the Canadian Oil Refining Company (1901-1904) and the Canadian Oil Company (1904 -1908), gasoline was an almost useless by-product of the petroleum refining process. So much so that gasoline was only casually mentioned in their early advertising. 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