Lakeside Museum Articles

A Petroliana Museum Collection
Lakeside is home to one of the largest Petroliana Museums in the Country, home to the famous P-51 Mustang.
Check out our P-51 Mustang

Check out our P-51 Mustang

Check out our P-51 Mustang! While this plane is the carbon fiber racing model, the older Fighters with the 1680 HP Merlin engines scream with a...

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Bobs Big Boy

Bobs Big Boy

In 1936, Bob Wian sold his prized DeSoto Roadster to purchase a small hamburger stand in Glendale, California. He named it Bob’s Pantry. One night...

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Clear Vision 700 Double Head

Clear Vision 700 Double Head

We finally got the beautiful curved glass price windows installed in our newly restored Clear Vision 700 Double Head Gas Pump. With over 100 gas...

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Island Pump

Island Pump

We bought this cute Island Pump up in Idaho a while back and finally gave up on finding and American globe for it and settled today for the Chevron...

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Texaco

Texaco

In the early days of autos there were no gas stations as we know them now. Places like drug stores and hardware stores etc. sold gas in these small...

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Tokheim 39 Tall Pump

Tokheim 39 Tall Pump

This gas pump is called a Tokheim 39 Tall Pump. It is circa 1939 vintage and was one of Tokheims first "computerized" gas pumps that calculated the...

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