Vintage Gas Sign !

Oh the good old days. They say gas prices are going down. It's hard to believe after almost hitting $5.00 per gallon in Los Angeles that they had no place to go but down. After seeing this antique sign with gas prices at .20 cents and a penny tax boy we really miss those days. But when was gas .20 cents you ask? In 1919 gas prices were .25 cents a gallon around the end of world war one. In 1946 it went up to 27 cents a gallon. And stayed below .40 cents until mid 1970. Wow what happened after that? the first 30 years it went up less then .30 cents a gallon the next 30 years it went up over $4.00 where did we go wrong? If you were at the Box Brothers store in Santa Monica today you also would have seen gas prices at .20 for a limited time that is until they packed up this antique sign. here's a link with some fun facts. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110425/bs_ac/8360093_us_gas_price_history_from_25_cents_to_nearly_5_a_gallon

Box Bros Los Angeles....

This week my travels have taken me to Los Angeles California...... The Box Brothers Inglewood Warehouse is working diligently building crates and processing tons of auctions items ready to be transported to their final destination.... I have brought with me Cowboy from our Las Vegas division..... I'm hoping the extra hands have helped the staff here in Inglewood...... It was great to see Ray from Box bros Santa Monica 1 location........ He came into the warehouse to follow up on the ton of items they picked up from an event on Saturday..... I appreciate the fact that he took the time to say hello to everybody in the warehouse.... Always good to see Ray!!!! Marianna is running around like crazy while conducting an efficient operation..... Her quality control on the art handling is unmatched within our corporation.... I hope all the store managers know that Bryan and Marianna are always available for questions concerning freight shipments and crating concerns.... They will Blog later on ways to load oversees containers......

Chris Long

Box Bros

800-355-7917

Antique Oil Painting

Older oil Painting from the 1880's. The guilt antique frame is original to the artwork. Items like this should be carefully packed to avoid damage to the frame and canvas surface.

We use paper mats as the first step to protect the canvas surface as well as the frame. Corner protectors should be used in this case we used a Styrofoam corner kit. Oil paintings can remain volatile and can react with plastics bubble wrap should not be used directly on an oil painting.

Artwork should be packed with great care, in this case since the artwork was expensive and fragile it was shipped in a wood crate this is also safe for long term storage. We make crates for shipping and storage to house one or several paintings.

We make custom foam packs for artwork as well as sell a full line of packing and moving supplies.

Box Brothers Redondo Beach OPEN 7 Days visit us at box bros.com Parking in rear.

Antique Wood Chair

Older/Antique wood chair. This was from an estate. We shipped this one UPS to New York. We pack and ship anything anywhere.

We pick up and safely pack and ship your items.

Box Brothers Redondo - Open 7 days Park in rear.

Visit us at boxbros.com Quality and service Since 1985

Old wood chest PACK/SHIP

This is a older wood chest we packed and shipped recently. We picked up and packed this item much lower then a mover could. We ship anything anywhere. We handle a lot of small shipments.

Box Brothers Redondo Beach Open 7 Days Park in rear.http://www.boxbros.com or call Paul at.310-379-4491

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