Sinclair Gas Station Memorabilia

[chief38]

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!

 

[ExRanger714]

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.

 

[Jessie]

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!

 

[canoeguy]

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

 

[kimporter]

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

 

[amazingflapjack]

Sinclair...

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

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

 

[sar4937]

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

 

[Chuck24]

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

 

[neorebel]

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.

 

[Rustyt1953]

A little interwebz factoid:

No, Oil Does Not Come From Dinosaurs

 

[DeathGrip]

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

 

[delcrossv]

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.

 

[misswired]

A little interwebz factoid:

No, Oil Does Not Come From Dinosaurs

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!

 

[Just another 22 shooter]

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.

 

[Targets Guy]

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

 

[rwsmith]

We were around Jackson Hole....

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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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.

 

[SC_Mike]

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.

 

[Nevada Ed]

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 !!

 

[max]

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.

 

[walkin jack]

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.