Vintage 50's - 60's Sinclair Gas Station

[Cranky]

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Those prices are kinda high for the era....unless it was in CA. I remember paying prices like that in 1970 around my area but Mobil Supreme was around 36.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Did ja use it!?

Yup, it was scented if I remember.

 

[Ski 61701]

Where is the Sinclair gas station located? Be kind of fun to go check it out in person. Thanks for posting

 

[Mopars & Missiles]

Where is the Sinclair gas station located? Be kind of fun to go check it out in person. Thanks for posting

Please see post #13

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

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[Dennis H]

Texas I think. Reported to be the first Phillips 66.

 

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[Richard Cranium]

I think I see a young Faucahontas in the window.

 

[Skytrooper]

There is a "new" Sinclair station in downtown Watkins Glen ! I just saw it a couple weeks ago. It is in the old Valero station just down the hill from Seneca Lodge.

 

[Ron H]

Really like photos of old gas stations, suppose we would as car folks. Here is a time line of sorts of a bar and rest near me, my favorite place to have a beer. Been thru 3 owners since I've lived in the locale. The place goes back to the 1850's as a stage stop and hotel. Later (around 1915 or so) the place added a small gas station as there wasn't one for many miles. The last photo is around 1940 and was Cities Service. The first photo is much earlier with no electricity or plumbing. In the 1950's it was a teen bar for a stint with a dance hall. The place still looks pretty much the same but the gas pumps were gone I guess sometime in the 50's. I still see some old gas stations around vacant and run down thinking what a neat idea it would be to resto before they're torn down. Looking at the middle pic, I kid around with the owner as he has a car show each month and said the place had a car show way back when!

 

[Sixpactogo]

Pictures of old gas stations bring back memories of yore for sure. Last year I took a few pics of a local guy's collection he built on his property. He built a copy of a Cities Service station that he worked at as a kid in Chippewa Falls WI. He has been adding to his collection as time and money allows. Here are a few pics I took. He has a some old cars and a pickup he restored and is building a stub nosed wrecker he plans to have competed this summer.

 

[Ron H]

Pictures of old gas stations bring back memories of yore for sure. Last year I took a few pics of a local guy's collection he built on his property. He built a copy of a Cities Service station that he worked at as a kid in Chippewa Falls WI. He has been adding to his collection as time and money allows. Here are a few pics I took. He has a some old cars and a pickup he restored and is building a stub nosed wrecker he plans to have competed this summer.

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Cool - a huge investment! I remember as a kid when stations still had guys uniforms pop out to service the car like the opening of Back to the Future. Check the oil, tires, clean the windows and gas was around 25 cents a gal. A crusty neighbor was always suspicious when having his oil checked telling the attendant saying to him he was a qt low "Is this with our without your thumb?" My future wife, just after our HS days, got her picture in the paper working at our local Clark station pumping gas as back then it was odd to have a female working at a gas station. I had some reservations while buddy's gave me some **** about it having her fill up their old muscle cars back when.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

the ‘60′s at Trader Lee’s in Ocean City Md. called “pump bunnies”

 

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[themechanic]

Click your state http://www.roadarch.com/gas/main.html

 

[Ron H]

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the ‘60′s at Trader Lee’s in Ocean City Md. called “pump bunnies”

They're wearing ahhh interesting uniforms..what a way to increase biz!

 

[Slap Stick]

Texas I think. Reported to be the first Phillips 66. View attachment 885828

The phirst Phillips station was in Wichita, KS.

 

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