It was a very good year : )

"... listened to the talk of the relatives,

but now the bug was on me again,

and the bug's name was Dean Moriarty

and I was off on another spurt around the road. ..."

From "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac

Actually this is the line for gasoline at the new Costco on Stine and Panama Lane.

Occidental’s $3.5 billion acquisition in 1998 of the U.S. government’s 78-percent interest in the Elk Hills oil and gas field has been an excellent investment. This former Naval Petroleum Reserve, set aside in 1911 to ensure fuel supplies for the U.S. Navy, is the seventh largest oil field in the continental United States, with cumulative production exceeding 1 billion barrels of oil and 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. The Elk Hills acquisition made Occidental the largest natural gas producer and the third largest oil producer in the state.

-From the Occidental Petroleum web site

Thanks to Dan Chusid for suggesting that this shot might look good in B/W also.

I like it both ways but agree that the B/W renders the retro feel more accurately.

What do you think?