Society Sights (April 2022)

Then and Now Images of Sapulpa:

A new Phillips 66 station would have its formal opening on September 11th, 1954. The station was located on the northeast corner of Dewey and Maple with B.J. Turney as the manager.

Incorporated at Bartlesville in 1917, the Phillips Petroleum Company was headquartered there for eighty-five years. In 2002 Phillips, Oklahoma's then-largest company, and Conoco, Inc., merged to become ConocoPhillips and relocated to Houston, Texas. This new, international, diversified energy firm is presently the third-largest integrated energy company, and the second largest refiner, in the United States.

​The company entered the refining and retail gasoline business to profit from the rapidly increasing demand for automobile fuel. In 1927 Phillips opened its first refinery, near Borger in the Texas Panhandle. On November 19, 1927, it opened its first gasoline service station, in Wichita, Kansas. Because this station lay near the new U.S. Highway 66, the company used "66" in its name. Then, in 1930, Phillips began using the U.S. highway shield as its logo, making the brand easily recognizable across the nation.