This post concludes our visit to Gasoline Alley in Calgary, a great car museum with the world’s largest collection of gasoline pumps and car-related signs. We’ve previously looked at the museum in these posts:
This blog looks at some of the amazing automotive-related signs of all types you’ll see throughout the museum. There are thousands of signs at Gasoline Alley ranging from small wall plaques to huge signs suspended from the ceiling of Grand Hall, the largest space in the museum. Several of them were from companies I’d never heard of and the whole thing was a lot of fun; if you like old cars, you’ll enjoy looking at these!
To get to Gasoline Alley in Heritage Park, you walk past an old Calgary train station….
Right behind it is our destination. Gasoline Alley is a modern building that also features the Selkirk Grille, an excellent restaurant…
As you enter, you come soon walk into magnificient Grand Hall, the colors and amount of information almost dizzying….
and yes, there’s even an airplane suspended here….
And a small sample of some of the fun signs at Gasoline alley….
What an awesome museum and collection of auto-related signs!! Very interesting article about Gasoline Alley!
That’s a great collection! I remember many of them from childhood trips in the 1950s, and in others I see signs with familiar shapes and designs, but Canadian names…also quite a few that remind us of commercial history…Richfield Oil before Atlantic Richfield before ARCO, for instance.
I’m beginning to think my day in Calgary at a teacher conference a few years ago was spent in the wrong part of town!