A last photo from Kansas. There is a brand of gasoline, Sinclair, whose logo is a bright green brontosaurus. Appropriate for a fossil fuel. Still, it's a little disconcerting to drive off the prairie into town and be confronted by a prehistoric monster.
It reminds me of my first encounter with the mind blowing. I was on the debate team in high school. We once took a late bus from New York to Boston for a tournament. It was misty and foggy. I fitfully tried to sleep but was awakened by friend's a transistor radio, which for some unknowable reason was playing a Spanish-language cover of the Rolling Stones' Satisfaction. As I looked out the window into the darkness, a flatbed truck with a Sinclair dinosaur five times the size of this one rolled by. Boinkboinkboink...
Two years later I was at Woodstock and this kind of thing seemed normal.
I haven't seen one of these in years! I used to have a Sinclair dino. I don't know how much gan my parents had to buy to get it....
ReplyDeleteLOL...I'm impressed with the price of the gas at that station. Anywhere from $2.11 to 2.18 is the going rate around here right now but the Sinclair station down the street from me is selling it for $2.43 and I saw someone in there buying some yesterday. There is no green dinosaur out front either. Just the little one on the cover over the pumps.
ReplyDeleteI know our gas stations wouldn't have one of those out front!
ReplyDeleteI remember those dinosaurs when I drove from the east coast to the west :)
ReplyDeleteDidn't know you were at Woodstock, I guess you were a hippie back then!
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