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To: P.O.E.

Always loved the “Sinclair” gas station sign with the brontosaurus when I was a kid.


2 posted on 03/20/2011 1:39:51 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: ez

I worked at a Sinclair in Cleveland in the 60s as a teen.
We really did do full service back then.

Most everybody paid with cash. I think we took credit cards but it was very uncommon.


4 posted on 03/20/2011 1:44:39 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: ez

Now that my nostalgia has been triggered I can remember the Richfield gas stations here in California. They would give out decals of an eagle. Kids would put the eagle decals on their bicycle seats. This was about 1948-50. Richfield later became part of ARCO.


8 posted on 03/20/2011 1:55:30 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: ez; P.O.E.
Loved that last picture of the Sinclair gas station. Looks like "Googie" architecture to me!
16 posted on 03/20/2011 2:08:58 PM PDT by thecodont
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