Flying Sportscasts 30th Year
date: label: date made
content: ca1920s-1960
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: American Airlines
notes: label: Description
content: Football shpaed button is brown with black printing in the center, <i>Flying A Sportscasts 30th Year.</i>
label: Description
content: Button features the "Flying A" logo that was used on Flying A-branded products, gas stations, service stations and Veedol motor oil. All of these products were owned by Tidewater Oil Company from New York City (1887). The largest stockholder of Tide Water was the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, which is now Exxon Mobil.
label: Description
content: The Flying A brand was created in 1901 for Associated Oil Company's premium-grade gasoline (Associated Oil merged with Tide Water). Tidewater's western refining and marketing properties were purchased by Phillips Petroleum Company (now ConocoPhillips) in 1966. The Flying A gas stations were immediately rebranded Phillips 66.
label: Description
content: This pin commemorates the 30th anniversary of Flying-A's sponsorship of sports broadcasting.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: Football
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: general association
content: Pac-12
label: Subject
content: Petroleum
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.310547.38g
label: accession number
content: 310547
label: catalog number
content: 310547.38g
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, football
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in; 4.445 cm x 6.985 cm