SINCLAIR

Welcome to our newest addition! Built-in 2020! This room houses our Hudson car collection as well as Sinclair Oil & Gas.

Here lies the second town front featuring a Soda Fountain & Pharmacy, a functioning restroom (should you need it), Gun Shop, Shoe & Clock Repair shop, Laundromat, and Drive-In theater.

Notice the movies playing all day, every day with real concessions commercials between showings.

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Sinclair was founded in 1916. First used the dinosaur named Dino (Dee-no) as their mascot in 1930 and is still in use to this day.

Operates 2 refineries, both in Wyoming. One in Casper and the other in Sinclair, Wyoming. The working town and refinery was created by PARCO and subsiquantly called Parco, Wyoming before being acquired by Sinclair Oil Co. and having it's name changed to Sinclair in the '30s.

Dino

Dino is an Apatosaurus. He has participated in several world fair and has flown in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade several times. In 2016 Dino's Road Tour traveled from California to New York to celebrate Sinclairs centennial.

You are allowed to saddle up and take pictures on Dino!

Signs & Globes
IN THIS ROOM

Barnsdall

1930s

Recently Sold at Auction for $2,300

Globe

Similar signs in better condition have sold for $5,500

Lion

Est. 1922

Similar signs recently sold at auction for $3,600

Studebaker

1962

The Gran Turismo Hawk was only produced from '62-'64 and was the top of the line of Studebaker at the time. Heavily inspired by european design. It was the last of the "Hawk" line that was started in '56. Only 8,388 of these sold that year. In the 3 years only 13,881 were sold in total. In comparision, their major competitors were the Ford Thunderbird and the Pontiac Grand Prix which sold 233,789 and 166,964 vehicles respectively.

Studebaker stopped producing automobiles in 1967 due to poor sales.

Sinclair Neon

1954

Found hanging on a fence in Lander. Came from a service station in the Rawlins. Worth about $3,000.

Sinclair HC

1954

Auction prices for these range widely between $2,000 and $6,000.

Oddly, the 4ft version which is hanging nearby auctions for nearly the same price.

Sinclair Globes

These globes are all original and range from $300 to $2,000. They are aranged oldest on the right and newer toward the left. Only 2 of these are not vintage. 1 is a 100 Years comemorative collector's globe from 2016. The other is a hand-painted limited edition collector's globe.

There are nearly 300 Globes in this museum.

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When a new gas station was being built companies would have a revealing ceremony announcing what brand it was. As part of this they covered the globes with this question mark to mask the brand until the revealing.