Buckles Blog: Parker & Watts parade 1938-39 #9

Friday, December 07, 2007

Scan000010550, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

The show had a promotional tie-in with Sinclair Oil who provided and maintained this float.

Anonymous said...: I would assume that is an air inflatable dinasour???; 07 December, 2007 08:13
Buckles said...: Yes it was. Sinclair had some people that traveled with the show just to handle this.; 07 December, 2007 08:26
Anonymous said...: As a kid growing up in a small town in Michigan, my friends and I would often gather a the concrete dinosaur at the Sinclair gas station. Just as often the proprietor Gene Luke would run us off his property. I remember the dinosaur as being enormous, but in truth it was probably no bigger than the inflatable in this photo.

Besides, you haven't seen a REALLY BIG concrete dinosaur until you've been to Wall Drug in South Dakota. That one's life size, I think. It's at the end of that parking lot, not actually at the drug store.

I miss America. Lot's of cool stuff there.; 07 December, 2007 17:38
Anonymous said...: Didn't this dinasour have a nickname?
Remember a station in Lansing,Mi that backed up to a large brick building that had a life size painting of this fellow on the wall over looking the pumps.; 07 December, 2007 18:44
Anonymous said...: For a kid in the 30's, I would think a parade was a really big deal, but to see elephants and a dinosaur must have been way better than anything !
Now small town parades are usually pretty stinky.; 07 December, 2007 19:30
Buckles said...: Wasn't it Dino?; 07 December, 2007 21:29

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