Editing Gulf Oil (section)

== Pennsylvania Turnpike ==
[[File:Gulf Service Station and Howard Johnson Restaurant, Pennsylvania Turnpike (82579).jpg|thumb|right|Gulf Service Station and Howard Johnson Restaurant, [[Pennsylvania Turnpike]]]]
Gulf operated filling stations on the [[Pennsylvania Turnpike]] alongside [[Howard Johnson's]] restaurants at the Turnpike's [[Rest area|travel plaza]]s starting in 1950 with the opening of the Philadelphia Extension and continuing for decades, with Gulf adding more filling stations as the Turnpike was extended.

The Standard Oil Company of Pennsylvania (later [[Exxon]]) was the exclusive filling station franchisee on sections of the Turnpike that opened prior to 1950—principally, the [[Irwin, Pennsylvania|Irwin]]–[[Carlisle, Pennsylvania|Carlisle]] section. [[Sunoco]] was also awarded franchises in the 1980s for the filling stations at the Sideling Hill and (now-closed) Hempfield travel plazas.

Gulf had the opportunity to become the exclusive filling station franchisee on the Turnpike after Exxon withdrew in 1990 and Cumberland Farms (owner of the Gulf brand in the northeastern U.S.) was awarded a new contract with the [[Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission]]. However, the contract was sold to Sunoco two years later as part of Cumberland Farm's bankruptcy proceedings, and all former Gulf filling stations on the Turnpike converted to Sunoco in June 1992, leaving Sunoco the sole brand of fuel on the Turnpike to this day.