Happen to find my old Deano the Dino piggy bank. Sinclair Gas Stations always had some ingenious child marketing gadgets. Reckon Deano wasn't lost or thrown away because he held money. Thinking about cracking him open to see how many wheat pennies he's holding..... then again Deano may be worth more thaythe pennies.

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Wonder how many know where Sinclair was from and WHY they had a dinosaur as a logo?

I was taught on a visit to the la brea tar pits that petrol is a byproduct of dinosaur oils. ....

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I also remember my Dad bringing home the inflatable green Dinosaur from Sinclair. "Dino oil" refers to decaying Dinosaurs transforming into oil.

Time to call the Pickers, Its been a long time since Ive seen a Sinclair station, maybe the sixties. Not long ago I found a ESSO key chain with the tiger on it, remember put a tiger in your tank.

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I'm pretty sure we had one of those too.

We had one of these in our family too. I think my sister considered it hers. I hope she still has it.

I think I used to get coins out of a bank by using a butter knife to flip the coins back out the slot. I'd hate to see a piece of Americana like this broken.

i recall seeing that vinyl blow up dino as a kid although i don't remember the last time i saw one of their stations.

anyone wanting more info on sinclair can go here....

Sinclair Oil Corporation - Wikipedia

Dinosaur Fever - Sinclair's Icon - American Oil & Gas Historical Society

turns out they're involved in more than oil.

I’ve seen Sinclair stations in Colorado while hunting. It’s no wonder they’ve all but perished away.

Choosing an extinct corporate icon probably isn’t the best strategy. People like cutting edge technology, not relics from the past...

Referring to a corporation as a dinasour means they’re slow moving and not adaptive. It’s not a compliment!

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I clicked on these links. One of them had a comment mentioning that at one time Sinclair marketed soap in the shape of its dinosaur logo. It's a 50+ year memory but I'm pretty sure I remember their soap, and it was green too.

Green stamps and Deano banks were cutting edge marketing strategies back in the 60's.....'just sayin' friend...

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I also remember "Plaid Stamps" and licked many sheets to fill those books.

The history (and current operation) is pretty fascinating stuff.

I took a lot of baths with Dino soap when I was a child.
It was free so it was good enough in my parents opinion.

Neat thread, misswired.

Sinclair, Wyoming, population 433, is about 150 miles southeast of me. The refinery still cranks out its products.

When I'm planning a trip through there I leave here so I can pull up to Su Casa restaurant just before 11 a.m. If I'm late, I stand in line outside and wait. They have three counter stools and four tables. Closest you'll get to authentic Mexican food this side of the border.

Dino is alive and well in ol' Wyo.

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Excuse the butchering of the Kings English: "you knowed mama had spent some money when you had several full sheets of plaid' stamps"..... I'm wondering if licking all that glue to stick them in the books didn't cause...:later in life illnesses. Man I remember a lot of licking and sticking those stamps

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They must be doing well with over 5 billion in revenue........

We just lost our big Dino a couple of years ago. Kids had broken off the tail, years ago. But this was a big fiberglass Dino from the 60's. Petrol is made from Dinosaur juice.

Misswired, is your Dino made of plastic or is it ceramic?

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My favorite was the UNION 76 “the spirit of 76 “ stations .They gave out the little rubber balls that went on your radio antenna as soon as we got home guess who had a free rubber ball.

It's plastic.... also cracked around the coin drop; some kid musta been digging coins out.

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My parents are no longer alive, however my Brother still has some (from my parents house) of those cheap multi-colored Anodized Aluminum drinking cups they use to give away. I think he still has some of the cheap steak knives as well. I even have some of the Green Stamps my parents never used!

Still using some of their steak knives regularly. Well, as regularly as I can afford steak. They get a lot of use on pork chops and deer meat.

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Sorry to drift but my very first hunting knife came from licking and sticking many S&H green stamps.
I remember my Mom was not entirely onboard with me getting that 5” fixed blade hunter but drove me to the store to get it.
It’s amazing that I remember her parking in the lot and I was out the door before that cat-eyed Chevy came to a stop!
I still have that knife. I wish I had that Chevy!

I've always liked Sinclair stuff, I picked up this reproduction metal sign for my "Man Room" a few years ago:

Didn’t they also have a give away of models of the aqua car? Seems I remember that for some reason

If I remember correctly, Sinclair became City Service, and then Citgo. (?).

Sinclair is still around as Sinclair. Wiki says they have 1400 stations, and the Omaha Ne. area still has 5 or 6.

Iirc, they had a dinosaur exhibit at the 64 Worlds Fair

I used to drive by the Sinclair mansion in Mission Hills, Kansas on my way to pick up my girl friend Ann in Mission Hills. Very nice man and family.

A little interwebz factoid:

No, Oil Does Not Come From Dinosaurs

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My Grandpa gave me my first radio, It was a little red transistor radio that kinda looked like a Sinclair gas pump.

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Picked up a plush Deano for my kids when I was out west a couple of years ago. Good memories of when I had one as a kid.

Well thanks a lot! Now I have to go back and repeat the modern third grade. That new common core mathematics is gonna suck too!

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My first memories of Sinclair as a youngster: I lived outside a very small town in southern Iowa-less than 100 population, but still had a hardware, general merchandise grocery, three gas stations, a Farmall dealer and a cafe. The Sinclair staion sit on a corner, like many small town stations did. It was owned by a crotchety old man, Glen Morgan. Most of the time he was amicable and people put up with him. But I remember every year on Halloween night he would sit outside in the drive up of his station with a loaded (At least every one thought it was) 20gauge single shot 37 Winchester "protecting" his property. Us kids always steered clear of him that night. Funny how one word can bring back memories.

Our Sinclair station closed last year. The photo is from 2009 when RAGBRAI came through our town.

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On one of our western pilgrimages I think in the later 90's we saw an operating Sinclair station. I'm sure I got a picture of it.

I think that coal comes from plant life, like ferns and peat while oil comes from organic matter in ocean slime that accumulated over millions of years. It seems a good many dinosaurs ended up fossilized in stone.

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A friend was giving me a hard time about my truck using a lot of gas. I said "Hey, my truck is GREEN, it runs off recycled dinosaurs."

There's a used car lot not too far that was once a Sinclair station. Looks like the place was kept up well. I'd like to stop by to just see the building one day.



FYI, I'm not affiliated with them in any way.

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I am not saying that the "Silver State" is old fashioned but we.............

still have Sinclair gas stations serving us.

Plus they are also one of the stations with lower gas prices !!

The dad of one of my childhood friends was a Sinclair distributor and when he couldn't find anyone else to run the local station he and his son did. I spent a lot of time hanging out there. Sinclair became ARCO and my very first credit card was from them. There was an ARCO station at Fort Sam.

From San Antonio back to central Illinois, I think I only saw two stations. I was very glad to see them as we were about out of money.

Good thread! My dad hired on to the Sinclair oil refinery on the Houston ship channel in 1938. He worked as an operator in the gasoline treating plant until '62 when they set him up as staff foreman. When he retired in '80 he was superintendent in charge of the loading docks. At some point along the way the plant was sold to Atlantic Richfield. and later to Lyondell.

It was a small plant and the Old Man was good to his employees they all loved him. Dad really missed him when the new hats took over.

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