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This wonderful old Sinclair station is located on a side street in River Heights, Utah. It is now used as an office for a firm that buys old buildings and restores them. A young lady who works there told me about some of their restorations, including another gas station and a movie theater. Apparently this was also used as a photography studio for a while.
Thanks for the tip, Jim.
Gas station sign in Tremonton, Utah for the Smile on Saturday group, Topic: "What's in a Name." Happy Saturday!
A bit about the first name "Jay:" It can be a name on it's own or a nickname for James or John. It is mostly considered to be a boys name with approximately 184,424 boys having been giving the name since 1880. (Babynameshub)
I like it because it is the name of one of my favorite birds, a Western Scrub Jay, a colorful member of the Crow family.
Gay Parita Filling Station and Garage.
Rt.66 Paris Springs Missouri.
12th Anniversary Escape.
sony SLT-A77MkII
We just pulled over and Dave drooled over the sign and truck and I took the picture. His father use to run a Sinclair station when he was young.
Sinclair Oil Beetle old VW a bit shabby with a Sinclair Oil sign on the door, a bit worn but pretty neat, shot in North Carolina.
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Sinclair Gas Station in Rolla, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon TS-E17mm f/4L lens at ƒ/14.0 with a 10-second exposure at ISO 50. Processed with Adobe Lightroom Classic.
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Another image from Caithness. This is Castle Sinclair Girnigoe near Wick. This is a spectacular castle situated on a long narrow peninsula projecting into Sinclair Bay and the North Sea. I went down to a flat area below the castle to capture this image. Its another place I would like to see when it is stormy. I think it would produce some spectacular images with big waves.
Sinclair in pastels. My first color collage will focus on Sinclair modeling four looks of our soft pastel fashions.
Sinclair Oil Corporation is an American petroleum corporation founded by Harry F. Sinclair on May 1, 1916. It is presently a subsidiary of HF Sinclair. The Sinclair Oil and Refining Corporation amalgamated the assets of 11 small petroleum companies. Originally a New York corporation, Sinclair Oil reincorporated in Wyoming in 1976. The corporate logo featured the silhouette of a large green Brontosaurus dinosaur. Sinclair adopted the dinosaur as its mascot in 1930, using it as a symbol to emphasise the vast age of petroleum. Although this led to a widespread public misconception that oil came from dinosaurs, Sinclair's own literature stated that their lubricants were derived from Pennsylvania grade crudes that were "mellowing in the ground during the Mesozoic era when dinosaurs populated the earth", not that the oil itself came from dinosaur remains.
From 2013 through 2021, Sinclair was ranked as one of the largest privately owned American corporations. It owned and operated refineries, gas stations, hotels, a ski resort, and a cattle ranch.
History
Sinclair Dinoland plastic Brontosaurus, 1964, in the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Sinclair has long been a fixture on American roads with its dinosaur logo and mascot, a Brontosaurus.
At the Chicago World's Fair of 1933–1934, Sinclair sponsored a dinosaur exhibit meant to play on the link between the formation of petroleum deposits and the time of dinosaurs, now a largely discredited misconception. The exhibit included a 2-ton animated model of a Brontosaurus. The exhibit proved so popular it inspired a promotional line of rubber brontosaurs at Sinclair stations, complete with wiggling heads and tails, and the eventual inclusion of the brontosaur logo. Later, inflatable dinosaurs were given as promotional items. An anthropomorphic version appeared as a service-station attendant in advertisements. Some locations have a life-size model of the mascot straddling the building's entrance.
1916-1960s
A restored Sinclair station in the White Post Historic District, Virginia
During September 1919, Harry Sinclair restructured Sinclair Oil and Refining Corporation, Sinclair Gulf Corporation, and 26 other related entities into Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation. In 1921 Sinclair sold a 50% interest in its pipeline subsidiary to Standard Oil Company of Indiana. In 1932, Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation was renamed Consolidated Oil Corporation, becoming Sinclair Oil Corporation in 1943.
A restored Sinclair gas pump from the 1930s
Near the beginning of the Great Depression, Sinclair sold the remaining interest in its pipeline Standard Oil of Indiana for US$72.5 million. With these funds, including an additional US$33.5 million from an additional common stock issue, Sinclair retired several promissory notes and prepared to weather the Depression with the remaining supply of cash.
In 1921, Sinclair began negotiating with the Far Eastern Republic in order to secure oil concessions in northern Sakhalin. These efforts would fail due to the Japanese occupation of the entire island, which would end in 1925 with the Soviet Union granting the rights to Japan's North Sakhalin Oil Company instead.
Between 1921 and 1922, Sinclair leased oil production rights to Teapot Dome in Wyoming without competitive bidding. This led to the Teapot Dome scandal. At the same time, Sinclair Oil was approached by the Italian fascist government. Benito Mussolini's government wanted to increase competition in the Italian oil market, which was controlled by the Italo-American Petroleum Society (SIAP), which in turn was fully dominated by Standard Oil. As the Teapot Dome scandal unfolded in the United States and reached the international press, Mussolini accelerated the negotiations, with a deal signed on May 4, 1924 (although without an official meeting, to avoid public outcry).
Because of this, Sinclair Oil Company is known for having made "large payments to leading Fascists — all acting as intermediaries for Benito Mussolini — in return for an exclusive monopoly to drill for oil on Italian soil and in the Italian colonies".
The deal was reported in a press release by the Head of Government (Mussolini) issued on the night of May 15, 1924, and published by most newspapers on the following day. The press release assured the public that Sinclair Oil had been awarded its contract on a competitive basis and had provided guarantees it had no relations with the international oil trust. This case of corruption was reported by the anti-fascist politician Giacomo Matteotti - who was later kidnapped and killed by Mussolini's newborn secret police, just before he could report his discoveries to the Parliament — in his posthumous article, published in the July issue of English Life (a magazine founded by Brendan Bracken): Matteotti accused Sinclair Oil of being a pawn of Standard Oil, as well as revealing "grave irregularities concerning the concession." Matteotti's theses were echoed in the notes of Epifanio Pennetta, who contributed to the preliminary investigation on the murder: "To all appearances," companies like Nafta and Saper "were in competition with the Sinclair company, while in fact they were in cahoots with Sinclair" and added that Sinclair Oil was actually working "in concert" with Standard Oil.
The renovated Sinclair Serving Station in Ridgeland, South Carolina (built 1937), listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
During the Great Depression, Sinclair saved many other petroleum companies from receivership or bankruptcy and acquired others to expand its operations. In 1932, Sinclair purchased the assets of Prairie Oil and Gas' pipeline and producing companies in the southern United States, and the Rio Grande Oil Company in California. The purchase of Prairie also gave Sinclair a 65% interest in Producers and Refiners Corporation (or Parco), which Sinclair subsequently acquired when Parco entered receivership in 1934. Lastly, in 1936, Sinclair purchased the East Coast marketing subsidiary of Richfield Oil Company, which had operated in receivership for several years. Richfield then reorganized, resulting in the creation of the Richfield Oil Corporation. Sinclair was instrumental in transferring capital and managerial assets into Richfield. Thirty years later, Richfield merged with Atlantic Refining, located on the East Coast, forming Atlantic Richfield.
In 1955, Sinclair ranked 21st on the Fortune 500; by 1969, it had fallen to 58th. In the early 1960s, Sinclair, along with Henry W. Peters and his son Eric Woods, developed the Turbo-S aircraft oils used for reliability in commercial jets, military jets, guided missiles and space exploration rockets. At the New York World's Fair of 1964–1965, Sinclair again sponsored a dinosaur exhibit, "Dinoland", featuring life-size replicas of nine different dinosaurs, including their signature Brontosaurus. Souvenirs from the exhibit included a brochure ("Sinclair and the Exciting World of Dinosaurs") and featured molded plastic dinosaur figurines. After the Fair closed, Dinoland remained as a traveling exhibit.
Two of the replicas (Tyrannosaurus and Brontosaurus) are still on display at Dinosaur Valley State Park near Glen Rose, Texas. Another, a model of a Trachodon, has been displayed at Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago, Illinois. A replica of a Triceratops is owned by the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, Kentucky and after a 2022 restoration was mounted above their parking garage. The Ankylosaurus is at the Houston Museum of Natural Science's Sugar Lands location. The Ornithomimus is at the Milwaukee Public Museum. The Stegosaurus is on display in front of the Visitor Center of Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. A copy of the Triceratops is also owned by the Smithsonian Institution and is on display as "Uncle Beazley" in the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. Information was found on Wikipedia.com. PHOTO NOTE: I believe this is a 1937 Chevrolet that graces the front lawn of this historic Sinclair station.
Located a few miles away from Wick in Caithness, this is a dramatic castle perched on a cliff. The castle is slowly being restored but the main work appears to be stabilising he castle to stop it falling into the sea.
Vintage Sinclair station in the border town of Texhoma, TX, a place mostly about big feed lots and big grain elevators.
I'm old enough to remember when gas stations were like this. It was gas, oil, water, some repairs, and maybe tires, but the extent of "convenience store" was a pop machine outside, maybe a gum/candy machine, and probably a cigarette machine, since seemingly everyone smoked back then. They were little boxes, with a couple of pumps which YOU DID NOT TOUCH. That was reserved for the attendant, who would check your oil and pull a squirt bottle out of the back pocket of his cover-alls, spritz your window and wipe it clean while the pump went "ding" with each gallon.
Maybe I'm getting fuddy-duddy syndrome in my old age, but I miss those times.
From thedailylumenbox.com Rollei RPX 25 shot at box speed with Leica Ic and
Voigtlander (Cosina) 21mm Color Skopar. Developed in Tetanl Neofin Blau.
A wee shot of the famous castle Sinclair at Girnigoe in Caithness. This angle looks North and a wee bit of the aurora is just visible.
Castle Sinclair Girnigoe is located about 3 miles north of Wick on the east coast of Caithness, Scotland. It is considered to be one of the earliest seats of Clan Sinclair. It comprises the ruins of two castles: the 15th-century Castle Girnigoe; and the early 17th-century Castle Sinclair.
The Clan Sinclair trust have begun restoration works.
This picture is exactly as it was taken on the camera. I didn't add fake light highlights or even do auto levels.
Bluebell Railway - Sir Archibald Sinclair (without number and name plate) on test runs 15th Nov 2023 (DSC 0368)
Sinclair gas Station and garage, In Elberta, Utah. I ran across this on my exploration around the southwest side Utah Lake. That is Bald Mountain in the background reaching 10,913ft. The small town is named "Elberta" after the peach.
Too bad I didn't shoot this at ISO800...Hehe..that's a lot of 8's!