Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. The Sinclair dinosaur is one of the most popular icons in American petroliana. But where did he come from? Sinclair’s advertising writers first had the idea to use dinosaurs in Sinclair marketing back in 1930.

    • Sinclair Oil Company Dinosaurs
    • Sinclair Dinosaurs Stamps
    • New York World’S Fair
    • Orginal Corythosaurus in Kansas

    As Sinclair’s dinosaur exhibit attracted Depression Era crowds. the company published a special edition newspaper, Big News, promoting the company’s diverse array of dinosaurs — and petroleum products. The Sinclair dinosaur exhibit drew large crowds once again at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. Four years later, even more visitors marveled at...

    In 1935, Sinclair Oil published dinosaur stamps and a stamp album that could be filled only with colored dinosaur stamps — issued one at a time weekly at Sinclair service stations. The first printing of Sinclair’s dinosaur stamp albums — distributed through its dealers within 48 hours after a single network radio broadcast of the offer — would asto...

    “For the first time in 70 million years a herd of dinosaurs will travel down the Hudson River this month,” noted the September 1963 issue of Popular Science. “Faithfully sculptured and big as life,” noted the magazine, the fiberglass dinosaurs traveled by barge from the Catskill Mountains studio of animal sculptor Louis Paul Jonas, his 18 assistant...

    Although Sinclair was born in Benwood, West Virginia, today a Wheeling suburb, he grew up in Independence, Kansas. The Historical Museum of Independence educates visitors with an Oil Room exhibiting Sinclair’s extensive Mid-Continent oilfield production and refining heritage. On display in a nearby public park is Corythosaurus – one the dinosaurs f...

  2. Originally a New York corporation, Sinclair Oil reincorporated in Wyoming in 1976. [4] The corporate logo featured the silhouette of a large green Apatosaurus dinosaur, based on the then-common idea that oil deposits beneath the earth came from the dead bodies of dinosaurs.

  3. People also ask

  4. Again in 1964 at the New York City World's Fair, Sinclair proudly displayed an exhibit featuring nine lifesized dinosaurs highlighting its unique association with the agi of the dinosaur--an age representative of the beginning of the formation of crude oil.

  5. May 22, 2017 · On May 1, 1916 oilman and former pharmacist Harry Sinclair combined the assets of 11 minor petroleum companies to form the Sinclair Oil & Refining Corporation. Today the company is known simply as the Sinclair Oil Corporation and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

  1. People also search for