Eight months ago we posted an amazing photo of the Standard Red Crown Sign atop the Standard Oil Station at South Skinker Boulevard and Clayton Road in St. Louis, Missouri. That photo and the two new images on view here along with the colored postcard are all courtesy of Joe Sonderman.

Joe reports: On September 29, 1959 workers removed the sign that was originally built in 1932. The sign contained 5,600 light bulbs, 2,900 feet of neon tubing, five-miles of wire and 87 electrical circuits. It weighed 44 tons, and it consumed as much electricity as a town of 1,000 people.

Seeing as it was quite an amazing piece of engineering when new, we are wondering if any of our readers know more about it, or can find information about its construction? The station still exists and today it is called Stevenson’s Hi-Pointe Service & Wash and has a giant Amoco sign on its roof.