A Tour With Texaco

Author : Rick Pease
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN 13 : 9780764303609
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tour with Texaco written by Rick Pease and published by Schiffer Book for Collectors. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with more than 800 photographs of Texaco oil products dating back to the early 1900s, this book takes you on a pictorial tour of many early Texaco stations around the world that sold them.

Author : Rickie Lee Jones
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 080218880X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Chance Texaco written by Rickie Lee Jones and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid and colorful memoir by the singer, songwriter, and “Duchess of Coolsville” (Time). This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song . . . Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner and Rickie Lee Jones in her own words (Hilton Als). It is a tale of desperate chances and impossible triumphs, an adventure story of a girl who beat the odds and grew up to become one of the most legendary artists of her time, turning adversity and hopelessness into timeless music. With candor and lyricism, she takes us on a singular journey through her nomadic childhood, her years as a teenage runaway, her legendary love affair with Tom Waits, and ultimately her longevity as the hardest working woman in rock and roll. Rickie Lee’s stories are rich with the infamous characters of her early songs—“Chuck E’s in Love,” “Weasel and the White Boys Cool,” “Danny’s All-Star Joint,” and “Easy Money”—but long before her notoriety in show business, there was a vaudevillian cast of hitchhikers, bank robbers, jail breaks, drug mules, and a pimp with a heart of gold, and tales of her fabled ancestors. This intimate memoir by one of the most trailblazing and tenacious women in music is filled with never-before-told stories of the girl in the raspberry beret, whose songs defied categorization and inspired American pop culture for decades. “A striking, distinctive self-portrait.” —The New York Times “Terrific . . . Jones is as fearless in prose as she is on stage.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Men leave, fame fizzles, family breaks your heart . . . but Jones knows a good story and how to tell it.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “[The] premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation.” —Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize–winner and author of White Girls

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Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Texaco Star written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texaco Star written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610603867
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fill 'er Up! written by Tim Russell and published by . This book was released on with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this car culture of ours, what could be more American than the gas station, from the roadside pit stop in the middle of nowhere to the spit-and-polish, full service city shop? This brightly illustrated history of service stations runs the gamut from East to West, North to South, spotlighting the culture and lore of the gas-pumping garage that has kept the United States moving for a century. Whether it's the last-chance Texaco or the Sinclair dinosaur winking in the distance, the beckoning Shell, or the winged Mobil horse, it's here in all its small-town glory of compact architecture, inspired promotions, art deco pumps, and endless views of the American horizon. Author Tim Russell, one of the world's foremost collectors and historians of Petroliana, rolls out the ribbon of highway that takes us to all of those way stations of Americas motoring past.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1959-06-08 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Author : Patricia Widener
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442208619
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oil Injustice written by Patricia Widener and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oil Injustice examines the mobilization efforts of four communities with different oil histories in response to the construction of an oil pipeline. Using multiple sites in Ecuador as case studies, Patricia Widener examines the efforts of grassrootsgroups, non-governmental organizations, activist mayors, and transnational advocates that mobilized to redefine the country's oil path and to represent the voice of many local communities and organizations that sought to offer an alternative to the nation's oil dependency and to the use of its oil wealth. These groups generated divergent and at times rival reactions to the pipeline, though at their core, the multiple campaigns developed from a shared history and awareness of a number of marginalized communities and degraded environments in areas most important to the oil process. Widener shows that global environmental justice demands are bound within a capitalist political system, where community activists, national NGOs and their international allies are forced to seek local change rather than attempt to defeat a disabling and unequal system.

Author : James Shannon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texaco and the $10 Billion Jury written by James Shannon and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shannon was a juror in the 1984 Houston trial that awarded $10.5 billion damages to the Pennzoil Company in its lawsuit against Texaco for preempting Pennzoil's supposedly binding merger agreement with Getty Oil. The verdict stunned the business world and Texaco declared bankruptcy; a compromise four years later reduced the award to $3 billion. With excerpts from court testimony and legal arguments between lawyers, bankers and executives, Shannon reconstructs the four-month trial, adding narrative and interpretations of his own. He tells how jury-room deliberations led to a consensus that Texaco had interfered intentionally, and therefore illegally, with Pennzoil's ``done deal'' and must pay a $3 billion penalty in addition to the $7.5 billion Pennzoil claimed to have lost by not acquiring Getty's oil reserves. Major ad/promo; author tour. (June) Copyright 1988 Cahners Business Information.

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Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1958-06-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

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Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1958-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.