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UPDATE 2 NOTES: thanks to @sejr99999's help these now grow.. But sacrifices were made and these lots are now medium wealth corner lots as opposed to low wealth. I have also added two new modern brands.
Freedom (US) - Freedom Oil Co. in Illinois. Not related to the one in Australia
Orion - chain of gas stations in the Miami, Florida area.

Over 50 gas stations representing retro and current gas station brands for your cities. This is the first set of retro gas stations and I plan on doing a 1950s-60s themed one as well. I used a heavily modified model from CGTrader to make these (the top canopy and signs are all custom but the pumps and part of the attendant building comes from the model. These use the small attendant format that many gas stations used to use before brands started to utilize convenience stores and quick-serve food as their strategy. So many of these brands are in the midwest as quite a few brands popped up while people travelled westward on highways like US 40 and US 66 along with the advent of the interstate highway system. I used the gassigns.org database to compile what brands I wanted to make for this set.

retro brands
Ashland - gas brand for Ashland Oil in Eastern Kentucky that later became a part of Marathon
Beaver - Canadian gas brand that was bought out by Shell
Bonded - Bonded Oil Co. in Ohio, stations later became Marathon and Speedway
Boron Sohio - Standard Oil of Ohio, stations are now BP, but Sohio is used in marine stations in the state.
Boyett - Boyett Petroleum in California, most are now other brands operated by Boyett.
Coastal - brand with long history in the southern US. A few are still around but most converted into Phillips 66
Diamond Shamrock - precursor to Valero, some are still around
Duke - brand in central Ohio, most became BP with Duke and Duchess mini-marts
Getty - Former large east coast brand and few are still around in the Philadelphia area. Many Lukoil stations in the east coast used to be Getty stations
Mohawk - brand with long history in Canada before getting absorbed into Husky
Pennzoil - motor oil brand that also had gas stations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, etc. before being absorbed into Shell
Quaker State another motor oil brand that had gas stations in Pennsylvania
Smile Gas - regional gas brand in the southern US before stations slowly transitioned into other brands when owner passed away
Starvin Marvin - midwestern gas chain that later was an alternate brand used by Speedway
Statoil - well-known Scandinavian brand before stations converted into Circle K after merger. some still exist in Denmark
Superamerica - brand started by Marathon, later divested, then bought again by Marathon before stations converted into Speedway and Arco
Swifty - midwestern gas station brand where people would pump your gas for you before shutting down in 2019
Topaz - Irish petrol brand that got bought by Circle K in the mid-2010s
UGas - gas station brand in the Miami, Florida area, some still exist but most are Marathon now

modern brands
Admiral - gas station in the Great Lakes
American - there are several gas station chains named "American Fuels" and I based this one off of a colorful one in Gettysburg, PA
Amstar - Chicago gas station chain owned by World Fuel, which is more known for airline fuel
Beacon - west coast brand owned by Boyett with locations in the Bay Area
Carroll - decently-sized mid Atlantic gas station chain - also owns High's Dairy Stores
Certified - gas station chain mostly in eastern Ohio owned by EG Group
Delta - small NYC-based gas station chain
Dinoco - known in the Pixar films, now in SimCity
Gate - southern gas station chain with over 100 locations
McClure - Indiana gas station chain
Mirabito - gas station chain in upstate NY
Mutual - chain based in New England
Octan - a gas station brand in the Lego universe, now also in the SimCity universe. Some real "Octan" locations have popped up in Russia
Pure Oil - brand with a long history in the south that has been making a comeback in recent years
Rich - alternate brand used by Marathon in the Midwest
Riggins - gas station and heating oil company in New Jersey
Spirit - nationwide gas station chain with an appealing canopy design, started in the state of Washington and mostly in Pacific Northwest
Space Age - regional gas station chain in Oregon and Washington
USA Gasoline - larger gas station chain in the midwest and south

modern brands (international)
1-2-3 - Danish gas station alternate brand owned by Circle K
Better Choice - Australian chain mostly in Perth area
BFT - about 1500 of these in Germany representing independent gas station owners, similar to IGA in US/Australia
Crodux - gas station brand with cool colors in Croatia that took over OMV stations there
Elan - French gas station brand that has a large footprint in the Paris area
Ingo - alternate gas station brand used by Circle K in Sweden
Migrol - gas station brand by the Migros conglomerate in Switzerland
OB - one of a few Icelandic gas station chains
OIL! Frei und Flott - chain in Germany and Denmark that has a colorful white/green/purple canopy
Orkan - Icelandic gas station chain that is pink
Petrol - main gas station chain in Slovenia, also owns the Crodux brand
Q1 - Q1 Energy AG which has 200 locations in Germany
Sol - Caribbean gas station chain that is owned by Parkland Fuels in Canada, who also owns the Ultramar and Pioneer brands
St1 - Finland, Sweden, and Norway gas station brand
Tamoil - gas station brand in Netherlands, Italy and a few other places in Europe
Tanka - brand in Sweden that is an alternate brand to OK-Q8
Tas Petroleum - regional brand in the Tasmanian Islands of Australia
UnoX - Danish gas station brand that also owns YX in Norway
Westfalen - German gas station chain in North Rhine-Westphalia

These are CS$1 corner gas stations and you can use the Extra Cheats DLL to plop these as well, with the LotPlop or BuildingPlop cheats.

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Had a good chuckle with the Octan one, that was good. :P

 

Really awesome to see a Statoil too!

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10 minutes ago, Glenni said:

Had a good chuckle with the Octan one, that was good. :P

 

Really awesome to see a Statoil too!

I actually made a Statoil as a bit of a tribute to the SimGothia/SAC stuff that was around in the 3000/early SC4 days!

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1 minute ago, pclark06 said:

I actually made a Statoil as a bit of a tribute to the SimGothia/SAC stuff that was around in the 3000/early SC4 days!

I'm glad you did. I always planned to make one myself, even started with the pumps, but never finished it.

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16 hours ago, Glenni said:

I'm glad you did. I always planned to make one myself, even started with the pumps, but never finished it.

Hi Glenni    is there any hope of new content from Norway?   thanks for all your past contributions

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this is an awesome collection of old & new worldwide brands but I haven't been able to grow any of them   it seems that the buildings are modded as CS$ but are placed on CS$$ lots   I was able to get them to grow when I re-modded the buildings as CS$$ and placed them on your original lots  thank you for this incredible set of fueling stations

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1 hour ago, sejr99999 said:

this is an awesome collection of old & new worldwide brands but I haven't been able to grow any of them   it seems that the buildings are modded as CS$ but are placed on CS$$ lots   I was able to get them to grow when I re-modded the buildings as CS$$ and placed them on your original lots  thank you for this incredible set of fueling stations

Weird, I have to see what's going on. I had to re-mod them on PIM-X and they seem to show up on the right place. I also know they are corner lots so they won't really grow that much to begin with, could it possibly be that?

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