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SINCLAIR LEWIS Story
When Harry Sinclair Lewis was born here on a bitter cold day, February 7th.1885, Sauk Centre, Minnesota was a raw prairie town with an unpaved main street and five or six blocks of false store fronts. A gawky, sensitive child who achieved little success in school and was the brunt of every crude piece of horseplay, “Red” Lewis spent most of his youth tagging after his adored older brother and doctor-father, and reading every book he could find. He began to write at age fifteen. Despite the years of lost jobs and false hopes that followed his graduation from Yale University in 1908, he persisted in his determination to be a writer.
With the publication of "Main Street" and "Babbitt", Lewis became a successful novelist and critic of American culture, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930. He returned frequently to Minnesota; never able to deny his underlying attachment to the Northern Middle West, he described it as “..the newest empire of the world…a land of dairy herds and exquisite lakes, of new automobiles and tarpaper shanties and silos like red towers, of clumsy speech and a hope that is boundless.” Lewis’ talent declined and he died alone in Italy on January 10, 1951. As he had requested, his ashes were brought home to Sauk Centre.
I'm unsure whether or not this was invented by Sir Clive Sinclair, the inventor of the pocket calculator, among many other things. Either way, I can't imagine why selling Big Wheels to adults didn't go over. My cousins remembered the brief phenomenon.
UPDATE: See comments and check out the Wiki. It seems that this is the DeLorean of recumbent-hybrid-electric-pedal-tricycles: A revolutionary idea, a total flop,and a later cult following.
GO U.K. in the early 80's!
1985 Sinclair C5 pictured at the North East Bus Preservation Trust's Seaburn Historic Vehicle Display on the 29th August 2022.
The Tall Sign Was Added By Sinclair In The Late 1960's, When The Station Was Built. The Original Logo Survived All The Way Until Circa 2010. Then, A Newer Square-Shaped Sinclair Logo Replaced The Previous One At That Time. Then In Early 2019, A Storm Knocked Out And Destroyed The Logo Of The Sign. Since 2019, There Unfortunately Was No Logo On The Sign.
The Station Has Always Been A Sinclair And Still Survives As One To This Day!
They Also Have Sinclair Gifts Inside The Store!
Vintage Aerial Photos:
1987
vintageaerial.com/photos/missouri/phelps/1987/TPH/83/5
vintageaerial.com/photos/missouri/phelps/1987/TPH/82/36 (Station Slightly Seen On The Right Side Of The Photo)
vintageaerial.com/photos/missouri/phelps/1987/TPH/83/6 (Tall Sign Seen Near The Right Side Of The Photo)
Other Photos:
2004
gassigns.org/sinclair.htm (Photos 9 To 12)
2010
www.flickr.com/photos/phydeaux460/5046589310/ (Last Known Photo Before The Original Shape And Logo Was Replaced)