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<\/a><\/p>\nJohn Danko Service Station in the 1949-1950 Albany Yellow Pages<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n SOURCE: New York Telephone Company .\u00a0 Albany telephone directory 1949-1950 (Albany, N.Y.: New York Telephone), yellow pages 19.<\/p>\n Click on the link for a PDF<\/a> copy of the John Danko Service Station in the 1949-1950 Albany Yellow Pages.<\/p>\n The yellow pages included only a small line listing for the service station that simply read:<\/p>\n Danko John Service Sta 90 Northern blvd..5-9428<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The service station was a Socony Mobil station and I remember it well. My father worked there for many years until he was offered a position working directly for Socony Mobil Oil Company. The station was on the corner of Northern Boulevard and Sheridan Avenue, just a few blocks from where my grandmother lived on Colonie Street. As a youth, I always liked the red flying horse logo<\/a> of Socony Mobil. Socony is an acronym for Standard Oil Company of New York.<\/p>\n In November 1991, a section of Northern Boulevard was renamed Henry Johnson Boulevard in honor of Henry Lincoln Johnson, a highly decorated member of the all black 369th Infantry Regiment of the New York National Guard .\u00a0<\/p>\n The building that housed the station is still there, but has been vacant for many years, the perimeter of the property surrounded by a chain-link fence.<\/p>\n In the 1949-1950 Albany Telephone Directory, the phone\u00c2\u00a0numbers included only 5 digits. Later, telephone exchanges, including HObart, HEmlock, and IVanhoe\u00c2\u00a0were added at the beginning of the phone numbers .\u00a0From the mid 1950’s until the late 1980’s, my family’s phone number was IV2-9139.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2008 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 1949-1950 Albany Telephone Directory (Albany, New York) that I discussed yesterday showed my father, my uncle, and my uncle’s service station\u00c2\u00a0in the white pages. My uncle’s service station was also listed in the\u00c2\u00a0yellow pages of the same directory. John … Continue reading \n
![red flying horse logo<\/a> of Socony Mobil. Socony is an acronym for Standard Oil Company of New York.<\/p>\nIn November 1991, a section of Northern Boulevard was renamed Henry Johnson Boulevard in honor of Henry Lincoln Johnson, a highly decorated member of the all black 369th Infantry Regiment of the New York National Guard .\u00a0<\/p>\nThe building that housed the station is still there, but has been vacant for many years, the perimeter of the property surrounded by a chain-link fence.<\/p>\nIn the 1949-1950 Albany Telephone Directory, the phone\u00c2\u00a0numbers included only 5 digits. Later, telephone exchanges, including HObart, HEmlock, and IVanhoe\u00c2\u00a0were added at the beginning of the phone numbers .\u00a0From the mid 1950’s until the late 1980’s, my family’s phone number was IV2-9139.<\/p>\nCopyright \u00a9 2008 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 1949-1950 Albany Telephone Directory (Albany, New York) that I discussed yesterday showed my father, my uncle, and my uncle’s service station\u00c2\u00a0in the white pages. My uncle’s service station was also listed in the\u00c2\u00a0yellow pages of the same directory. John … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-yW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:MobilSignHistoric.jpg\"){kind=link}