SINCLAIR OIL - Life in America

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[garywood]

My Dad was a Sinclair dealer.
He passed in 1965 after years with them.
I still have a award of years of service he received from them.
And a Silver plate with Dino the Dinosaur standing in the middle of it.
Had so much fun helping my Dad at the Service Station.
I was 15 when he passed away.
God Bless and keep y'all safe.

[geralderdek]

Our Sinclair station I my hometown in nj would give away a free transistor radio with a gas purchase. They looked like little gas pumps. This was in the mid 60s. I still have mine and it still plays!

[kathylingen]

As a child, my parents purchased Sinclair Gasoline. They offered for sale, an inflatable dinosaur. We would climb on top of it and float in the pool. I did not realize Sinclair was still in business.
Thank you for the nice memories.

[eileencarroll]

As a kid, I have fond memories of my green vinyl inflatable Sinclair pool toy. My dino helped me learn to swim.

[blueroanspecial]

I remember getting a green dinosaur toy at the gas station. I still think of that toy when I see a Sinclair station. Thanks for the memories.

[orionwarren]

Sinclair had an exhibit at the grand opening of the Northland Mall (The first in the country) in Detroit MI. They had a plastic injection mold machine on site that produced the 'Dino' as toy souvenirs for the kids. My mom got me one when we attended the opening. It was still warm and smelled funny! 🤣

[alandickerson]

I never knew the whole story of Sinclair. Thank you for sharing this

[MAGronemeyer]

There's still a lot of Sinclair gas stations in Missouri where I live. I also had one of their plastic dinosaurs as a kid back in the day.

[madeirabchmike]

Had one of those plastic brontosaurus back in the sixties.

[kevinlong]

I remember as a little kid badgering my parents to stop at a Sinclair station because they had a dino toy promotion. They finally stopped at one and they were all out of the promotional toys. My day was ruined. 😔😔

[ynot]

We would always stop at the Sinclair (in the 70's, 80's, and 90's) off of i-70 on Colfax Av in Denver to get gas before heading up into the mountains. The green Dino was there then and I was just thru there last month (Jan 2022) and he's still there. Lol.

[jodygrancitelli]

My dad had his own business and it was Sinclair gasoline and fuel

[jamesslick]

In the early 1970's I had an AM ("transistor") radio that was made to look like a Sinclair gas pump. As a "gearhead" kid, I loved it.

[johnlosert]

One of my favorite toys from my youth was a Sinclair transistor radio. Looked like a gas pump!

[gillboardman]

Shout out to the Sinclair station in Jordan Valley, Oregon. Probably the remotest station in the whole USA.👍🤘🤙

[MikeBrown-iipt]

My grandpa, who was actually a farmer, owned a Sinclair station in my hometown from the mid 1940s into the mid 1960s. The building still stands but it's now a hair salon of all things! I still have a bunch of the old Sinclair branded equipment from the garage even though he sold the station several years before I was born.

[ReturnToNormal]

What a story! We had a Sinclair gas station just two blocks from the house I grew up in back in the 1950's. One of our neigbors even worked there part time to supplement his income from his full time job. He had five children to provide for, so he needed every dollar. Sinclair vacated the building a long time ago but it's still there and I can remember going there to air up the tires on my bicycle. I was very happy to learn that they are still around! Thank You RR for another wonderful history lesson!!!

[tiberius]

My Uncle owned a Sinclair (Later became ARCO) station in Rocky River, Ohio in the 50's thru the 70's. I remember getting Dino inflatables and miniature Sinclair tanker trucks from him. Also on visits to the station we were treated to 'rides' on the car hoists and pop from the glass doored coke machine in the lobby...great memories!!!

[annettemalaski]

I so wanted that inflatable Dino when I was a kid. I finally got one in my twenties! Go Dino and Sinclar!

[footballlvnlady]

I remember going to a local Sinclair station in the mid 60’s. Got a dinosaur bath soap. We don’t have Sinclair in our city anymore but there’s one Dino out front of a gas station/mini mart here. Dino gets dressed for all the seasons. Since Dino is a few blocks from our NFL stadium he gets dressed for the games too! Popular guy!