"Where'd you say the mailbox is?"
"There's one down the road at the next corner. Right by the Signal Oil station."
"There's one down the road at the next corner. Right by the Signal Oil station."
1945-04-02 The Return of the Innocent (J. Donald Wilson)
"Well, I gotta run along now. If you want me, I'll be at my cabin a half-mile up the mountain. Just up the main road, and turn off when you come to the big Signal Oil station."
1946-04-08 Terror Stricken (Walter Jensen)
"I'll pick you up in front of the Signal station at Runyon and Broadmoor tomorrow morning at eight, right?"
1946-07-15 Custom-Built Blonde (Will Pryor)
"Their car jumped a curb and crashed through a Signal Oil billboard about an hour ago. Stafford was crumpled over the wheel with a couple of bullets in him, and Burton was sittin' next to him, dead from a couple of slugs."
1946-08-26 Brief Pause for Murder (Lou Houston and Bill Forman)
(In the 1946-09-08 Chicago production and the 1949-09-11 Signal production of Brief Pause, they've "got a band on the net from Hollywood" instead.)
"Let's see, at 9:45 we've got the Signal Oil sports broadcast on the net from Hollywood, then we take Murder Manor from New York..."
1947-02-24 Eight to Twelve (Joel Malone and Harold Swanton)
"And another thing, your gasoline gauge looks almost empty. There's a Signal Oil station on the next corner, perhaps we'd better stop."
1948-12-19 The Hangtree Affair (Joel Malone and Adrian Gendot)
"Look, how do you get out there to the cemetery?"
"Oh, easy, just go right down the end of C street here, and then turn left by the Signal oil station and go up the road...."
"Oh, easy, just go right down the end of C street here, and then turn left by the Signal oil station and go up the road...."
1949-03-13 Search for Maxine (Harold Swanton)
"Alvarado Street, Ted, that's where she was. Probably in that big apartment house opposite the Signal Oil station on the corner."
(When this story was used as Four Hours to Kill on Phillip Morris Playhouse 1949-05-13, Suspense 1950-01-12, and Murder by Experts 1950-06-19, Ted deduces that the girl lives somewhere around 71st Street, "an apartment, maybe a residential hotel, facing Central Park.")
1949-07-24 The Hermit (Ben S. Hunter)
"Uncle Ben, this gentleman's car ran out of gas. He wonders if he might use the phone."
"I wanna call the Signal station down the road."
"I wanna call the Signal station down the road."
1949-09-25 Incident at Arroyo Grande (David H. Ross)
"Finally, several miles down the road, you approach an intersection. And there near the lights of a Signal Oil station, what you see helps to calm your nerves..."
1950-07-02 Quiet Sunday (Bernard Girard and Zane Mann)
(In the original 1946-06-10 production of Quiet Sunday, this line ends after "It'll only take me a minute.")
"Well, I--I just don't want you to be late! [Changing the tire]'ll only take a minute. Besides, there's a Signal service station in the next block!"
1951-11-04 Man on the Run (Adrian Gendot)
"Well, it shouldn't take you more than twenty minutes or so. Just turn off the main highway three miles past Denton, at the Signal service station."
1952-03-09 Breakaway (Adrian Gendot)
"You the fellow that put in the call?"
"Yeah. Me and my partner run the Signal gas station down the road."
"Yeah. Me and my partner run the Signal gas station down the road."
1952-04-06 Element X (Adrian Gendot)
(In the 1955-02-13 production of Element X, his place is "all by itself, just past the Mar Vista turnoff on the beachfront...")
"My place is all by itself, just past that Signal Oil station, on the beachfront."
1954-02-28 Feature Story (no credits on surviving recording)
"Say tell me, where would be a good place for us to stay a day or so, huh?"
"Best place around here is the Desert Motel, just at the edge of town, right next to that big Signal station."
"Best place around here is the Desert Motel, just at the edge of town, right next to that big Signal station."
1954-08-01 Borrowed Future (Adrian Gendot)
"Oh, there's a Signal station up ahead. You can call him from there."
1954-09-12 Landslide (story reused from 1952-03-09 Breakaway)
"You the fellow who put in the call to my office?"
"Yeah, I work at the Signal gas station down the road."
"Yeah, I work at the Signal gas station down the road."
Bonus: an apparent slip of the tongue in 1949-04-03 The Rawhide Coffin. Instead of "single room," it sounds like the hotel clerk says,
"We'll let you have the very next Signal room that's vacant!"
