Poor thing, tiny little dinosaur pen....
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We recently drove from NY to SF and back. Our kids loved Sinclairs lol
When we're in the Mt West my young kids like the dinosaur gas stations. They may have come as far south as North Texas recently but I never see them very far east
Also - the top price on the sign is not $2.11 but 21 cents per gallon
I don’t think this is correct.
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I did a few reverse image searches and found this image, but couldn’t really find any attribution. The timestamps on the results I found were quite old. Pretty sure this isn’t AI.
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there’s a clearly visible Coca Cola bottle shown attached to the gas price sign. This style of bottle wasn’t produced until 1977. https://www.historyoasis.com/post/coca-cola-bottle-design-history
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for gas to be 22 cents, this would need to be pre-1950’s. In 1977, gas was around $0.60 on average. https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-741-august-20-2012-historical-gasoline-prices-1929-2011
I’m pretty sure this is a modern image and the price shown is $2.11 (and 9/10’s of a cent).
Edit: I’m just seeing what community I’m posting it, but I’m leaving this comment.
It also doesn't really matter, those gas stations still exist in Colorado and they still have the big fiberglass dinosaurs hanging out. That picture could have been taken recently and still been roughly the same.
Idaho as well, there’s me just around the corner from me
The prices are right there dude. 2.11 9/10 for regular, 2.21 for super, and 2.31 for premium.
The Budweiser being 8.99 for a 12 pack also means this is rather recent (as noted by the clothing that person is wearing) and those prices are just for show so they can be anything they want. They could have had 0.21 but opted to have 3 main digits.
The curvy Coke bottle with a screw top also dates this to the mid 90’s or later. Before then, Coke came in a straight sided plastic screw top bottle. The classic curved glass bottles had the pry-off metal bottle caps.
You know Sinclair's are still around right? Plus that dude looks like he has a selfie stick
JK we got trolled well done