FREDERICKTOWN — In a recent vintage photo of downtown Mount Vernon in the early 1950s, we saw the sign (if not the actual building) for a Sinclair gas station.
This image from around the same time shows the Sinclair station that used to operate in Fredericktown at the intersection of South Main and Columbus Road, courtesy of a photograph donated to the Knox Time Collection by Vickie Clawson Adams.
While Sinclair gas stations have grown rare around these parts, the company is still active, though it has since been absorbed into larger corporations.
They are widespread enough that numerous pop culture references to the company have been made, including the surname of the main family in the ABC puppet sitcom Dinosaurs (1991-1994), which was “Sinclair.”…