Nobody put a walking lion on a gas sign by accident. Lion Oil drew the animal in full stride — mane rendered stroke by stroke in yellow and black, head turned toward the viewer — and set it inside a navy ring with the brand name in red beneath it. The lion is doing the selling and the type is just labeling.
Printed on a Gildan 18500 heavy blend hooded sweatshirt — 8 oz cotton-poly, classic fit, double-lined hood with a color-matched drawcord and a front pouch pocket. Tubular knit with no side seams. Tear-away label. Machine wash cold, tumble dry low.
Lion Oil built its business out of El Dorado, Arkansas, which sat on top of a field that turned a farming town into an oil town almost overnight in the early 1920s. Animal marks were the standard vocabulary of the era — Grizzly, Buffalo, and Zerolene all reach for the same idea — but a lion in Arkansas is a choice about aspiration rather than geography.
The perfect gift for the Arkansas collector, the sign hunter who works animal marks, the restorer with a navy-and-red shop wall, the dad who grew up near an oil boom town, and anyone who wants the best-drawn animal in the whole set.
The Faded Label Co. — keeping the golden age of American roadside art alive, one product at a time.
