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De-waxing what and why? Can anyone enlighten me?

Dewaxing of petroleum The process of separating hydrocarbons which solidify readily (waxes) from petroleum fractions. www.answers.com/topic/dewaxing-of-petroleum

...I get attached to tender images like this.

isn't petroleum jelly a product of this wax?

The caption written on the photograph says "500-mile race, Indianapolis" -- was it not being called the "Indianapolis 500" yet?

You make a good point, Lu, thank you. The present title is better placed with the tags. We will revise the title to match the caption next time we update the record. Additionally, the caption provides the exact date.

More than I expected :) I really didn't know! I do suspect it's tough to find the point at which tag/etc. info is narrow enough to be accurate but still broad enough to be searchable.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called "I Love Oklahoma", and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Tulsa Mid-Continent refinery is now the Sun Oil refinery. My graddad (I'll call him my dad since he and my grandmother Margaret raised my sister and me), Rusty Morton worked there for many years, retiring in 1982. As a matter of fact, I'm packing up to move from my home in Blaine, WA on Puget Sound, and my granddad's Sunray DX hard hat is in there on the kitchen counter.

This is a great photo.

Mike, The Mid-Continent Refinery in Tulsa was changed to Sun Oil Company, then Sunray DX. It was sold a couple years ago to HollyFrontier and is still being operated. HollyFrontier also bought the Sinclair Refinery at the same time. They completed an underground network to move products back and forth under the interstate and community last year. Roy Heim, Southwest Tulsa Historical Society. CrimeDet@aol.com. Thanks for posting the picture by John Vachon. He did some amazing photography in Tulsa and other places in the early 1940's (World War II era).