Fuel Oil News Marks 90th Year of Publication
This year, 2025, is Fuel Oil News magazine’s 90th year of continuous publication. In celebrating this milestone, we thank those who made it possible – fuel marketers current and past, advertisers, suppliers, vendors and readers. Fuel Oil News magazine’s stellar associate publisher, Dave Campbell, an American history buff who himself has a long history with Fuel Oil News, having made the magazine go for more than 30 years (31, to be exact) suggested that we put out an industry-wide call for memories and pictures. Among those who responded are Ed Anyzek Jr. and Patty Anyzek, president and vice president, respectively, of family-owned Anyzek Plumbing, Heating & Cooling in Gloucester City, New Jersey. The company and Fuel Oil News share similar longevity; in fact, the company is three years older than this magazine.
“You don’t stay in business since Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his first presidential election without doing your job and doing it very well,” the company says on its website (www.anyzek.com). “The Anyzek family has been doing just that since 1932.” The company notes that it provides “dependable heating oil delivery, expert equipment installation and service and personal and responsive service in all we do for our customers.”
Ed Anyzek Jr. offered a couple of details about the pictures he provided for this page. The truck with the spoked wheels is “a 1924 Reo,” he says. According to the Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, the initials REO are those of Ransom E. Olds, president and general manager of REO Motor Car Co. from 1905 to 1924.
Ed Anyzek Jr. says the other picture on this page shows a 1937 Diamond T. The Diamond T Motor Car Company was founded in Chicago in 1905, and became known for its trucks.
At the wheel of the Diamond T? Ed Anyzek Sr., Ed Jr.’s father.