Tidewater Petroleum

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Tidewater Petroleum was a petroleum company.

It sold its products under the trademarks Tydol, Veedol, and Flying A. It was eventually taken over by Getty Oil, and now is incorporated in ChevronTexaco.Template:Petroleum-company-stub

"Flying A" was a major gasoline brand in the U.S. in the late 1950's and early 1960's, and its disappearance was a surprise to many people. The brand was a sponsor of New York Yankee television broadcasts in one of the company's final years, with the slogan, "Ooooh, do we worry!" and featuring a dog named Axelrod. The commercials sometimes had a jingle with a creative if somewhat odd rhyme: "At Flying A we worry......about your carburetor.....your sparkplugs, muffler, tail lights and your voltage regulator." The Yankees that year had a very poor season. One wonders if maybe a better year by the Yanks might have made the company survive.