Sunday, March 14, 2010

Gas - 38 cents a gallon?


Some of us are old enough to remember 1) Sinclair Oil and 2) this type of gasoline pump. We discovered this paean to the past in Lake Sumter Landing...and yes, it is a prop!
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8 comments:

Paula said...

I wonder who employs the young men who manned those gas pumps now. Not the actual men, I mean their equivalents. :)

March 14, 2010 at 10:15 PM
VP said...

I have seen these pumps only in old movies, great find and picture. Who cares if it's a prop...

March 15, 2010 at 4:29 AM
joo said...

I don't quite understand the story behind, but I love the photo:)

March 15, 2010 at 5:33 AM
Anonymous said...

Yep, this is the kind of pump everyone had when I was growing up. Mobilegas was one now just called Mobile. In those days it has a flying horse as part of the logo.

March 15, 2010 at 7:15 AM
Small City Scenes said...

When a service was a SERVICE station. Check you oil? Wash your windshield? etc. I'll betcha people though gas was expensive then too. MB

March 15, 2010 at 9:02 AM
B SQUARED said...

My grandfather used to speak about Sinclair. I think they had a dinosaur in their logo.

March 15, 2010 at 10:51 AM
Cezar and Léia said...

What could I say? Vintage?!
God bless you!
Cezar

March 16, 2010 at 3:37 PM
Lisa Wilson said...

There was a Sinclair station close to where I grew up in OK. They even had a green dinosaur in the parking lot that got stolen at one point. The old building was recently torn down to make room to build an IHOP.

March 20, 2010 at 11:08 AM

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