The tall, curved, fountain-like forms of the thirty-five-foot tower of this Art Deco gem were originally outlined in neon. Founded in 1931, the Good Luck Oil Company had fifty stations around Dallas, but only three built in this style. The building was renovated for office use.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Old Good Luck Service Station", [Dallas, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-DS95.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 182-182.
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