Conaco Getting Rid Of It's 76 Balls

[matcom]

let the copycat's BEGIN!

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(January 30, 2007) -- One of the last remaining large orange "76 Balls" which once dotted "Union 76" service stations across the west is about to disappear from Long Beach.

As of midmorning January 30, the iconic sphere (which at night is internally illuminated and rotates gracefully atop a pole) remains at the NW corner of Bellflower Blvd/Abbeyfield St. across from the southern end of the Los Altos shopping center...but its days are numbered.

On ConocoPhillips directive, it's slated for replacement...either by a new sign which may be a square-type display (and includes a small ball in it) or possibly be a new type of stand-alone red ball, whose exact size and other particulars are uncertain to us as we post.

However one way or another, a Houston-based ConocoPhillips spokesman tells LBReport.com that the original orange ball will be replaced...and fencing already surrounds the pole at the Los Altos location.

http://www.lbreport.com/news/jan07/76ball.htm

[underpants]

1. I didn't know WilsonPhillips owned gas stations

or maybe it was Mackenzie Phillips

[AllegroRondo]

2. Maybe I can buy a couple on eBay

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. It was Chuck Norris who ordered them to.

Nobody has more balls than Chuck Norris and lives.

[xchrom]

4. big orange balls that rotate.

[flamingyouth]

5. The guy who designed them went to my high school

There's actually a movement to save them :D

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/301297_76ball26.html

[Zookeeper]

6. You posted this for future copycat threads....

didn't you?

[swimboy]

7. I'm glad there were an even number.

If it were up to me, I'd sure as hell keep 'em.

[Little Wing]

8. They just need giant vaginas on the top of the poles

That'll get dudes coming in