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Great info & pictures on the Sinclair-Pennant Hotels. Some maps have the Pennant locations pin pointed on them.
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Now that's a first, Pennant having Taverns and Hotels way before the Gulf Holliday Inn tie inns ! Ed Shaver
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Here is some more Sinclair literature. Love the Little Stamp booklet
Quart and Liter can relidding and dent removal services.PM for detail and pricing. Collecting Mobil and other graphic quart cans.
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Mexico maps Matchcovers Dave
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a few of my Sinclair items , The gas station was my uncle's where I spent a lot of time as a kid.
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Time for a few more pictures and a story. My brother and I were at Iowa Gas one year and a guy stops by the spot to talk. He was saying he had an old tanker truck body with a couple of signs still on it. He tried to describe them and it sounded interesting. He said he would bring them by next year for us to look at. Ok, sounds good. Thought we would never see that guy again. Next year I was not able to go to the show but my brother went and set up in the same spot as he always does. The same guy did come back and had the two round signs pictures below plus he gave us the pictures of the signs out in the wild. The marksman did a number on the sign on the right, cut it's value big time but it is still a great sign. Dad ended up with the pair and had the bullet holes repaired by the VanKannel boys. After the repair; Dad was happy with the job the brothers did. I think it is his only restored sign. There is another version of this sign also with a small white "tag" looking thing on it as well as I think a 16 inch version.
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I think there is also a 16 inch one of these; A before shot;
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Some Sinclair service staion items. Oil Lubri pump. Think it was used to pump the oil out of a crankcase? Credit card machine A grease gun rack. The signs for these show up more often than the racks, from what I have seen A nice old lubester that showed up at Iowa Gas a couple years ago. The original lids should be cast iron, I think most of the repo lids are cast aluminum
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An oil can cabinet that was used out on the pump island. Sinclair did not make the rack/ cabinet but different companies had different wording on the sign. This one mas made by Sel oil. I found out about it somehow on the internet. My brother and I drove up one snowy weekend to pick it up. The people had a house FULL of advertising stuff, petro, country store beer and soda pop. Spent a couple hours looking at their great collection. I thought i paid to much for the cabinet untill I looked it over and saw how clean and complete it is. It came with the two removeable doors that were put on at night to lock everything up With the one door on
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Another oil cabinet sign that Sinclair used Another service station item was the tire lube container. A brush was stuck inside it to get the lube on it then the brush was given a quick wipe around the tire where it mated up with the wheel. The lube helped the tire fit onto the wheel. An oil can cart. Probably from the 1920's. The cart held the cans and was on wheels so it could be pushed out to the pump island and back inside. There were two porcelain signs on each cart as shown in the picture. The signs show up at the shows now and then A credit card clip board, used to let the driver sign the credit card slip. Sinclair had at least two different metal ones of this type, plus plastic ones later on
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Another version A Sinclair employee name badge. Name badges were at one time bringing big time money. Another lubester, or oil cart. This one was restored. They also had two porcelain signs attached. And like pump restorations, some end up nicer than they ever were originally Close up of the lid
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Another grease gun rack Couple lubesters
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