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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. They were promoting lubricants refined from crude oil believed to have formed when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
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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...
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Dino — The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Helium Balloon. Sinclair Oil’s classic Dino balloon returns to the 89th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® this year after a nearly 40-year absence — and just in time to kick off Sinclair’s centennial celebration in 2016.
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The corporate logo featured the silhouette of a large green sauropod dinosaur, based on the then-common idea that oil deposits beneath the earth came from the dead bodies of dinosaurs. Sinclair was ranked as one of the largest privately owned American corporations. [1] .
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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.
HF Sinclair Corporation. Technical Assessment: Neutral in the Intermediate-Term West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil closed at $79.60/barrel on Wednesday, as attempts to break to new rally...