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Volume 10, Issue 23 - Feature #3645

Hintergardt Bros. OKC Station Closes

When my parents (J.C. and Marian Kendrick) and my brothers and I lived at 3920 NW 59th street in OKC, I sometimes stopped at that station, to patronize another Oklahoma product. H.C.Sinclair was another of the famous Oklahoma oil men who'd become famous enough to have his name used by his company. I also traded with Kerr-McGee's "Deep Rock" stations, Conoco, and Phillip's 66, while I was going through college at Oklahoma City University, and later when I worked as a film editor at channel 9, KWTV. I might mention too that Phillip's 66 did NOT get its name from the 'beltline highway' 66! It got it's name because one of the Phillip's brothers (Frank I think) was being driven down the highway and commented that they must be going close to 60 MPH using their new gasoline and his chauffeur glanced down at the speedometer and said, "no sir, we're going 66 miles per hour". And when Wiley Post began using their newly developed 'premium' fuel in his airplane (the Winnie Mae) they renamed that premium gasoline "Flite Fuel". .............. Roy K.

Roy Kendrick - 2008-06-09 11:22:46

Sorry to hear about my classmates closing their station. Harley and Hadley, good luck.

Floyd Thompson "66 - 2008-06-08 22:06:14

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