When gas was 35 cents or cheaper.
They pumped it for you with a smile.
They gave you s&h green stamps.
They gave you a glass or dinner plate.
they washed your windshield and back window with a spray bottle and real window cleaner.
As they where filling your car you would go get a soda out of the machine that was more like a cooler where the glass bottles were hung buy there neck and slid them out, and when you where done you put it back in a wooden bottle carrier.
They would also check your oil without short sticking the dip stick.
and when they where all done they would smile and say thank you and have a good day.

Was there ever such a time?:freak:

Yes there was...and not that long ago either!!! :thumbsup:

I remember

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When gas was 35 cents or cheaper. I was a kid, but my dad's UNION 76 Station was 37c (Sales Tax Added) way back then
They pumped it for you with a smile. He Had FULL TIME/ FULL SERVICE PUMPS
They gave you s&h green stamps. We had "Blue Chip Stamps"
They gave you a glass or dinner plate. Also Steak Knife Sets, and a few other things
they washed your windshield and back window with a spray bottle and real window cleaner. ...and used those little hand held sponges
As they where filling your car you would go get a soda out of the machine that was more like a cooler where the glass bottles were hung buy there neck and slid them out, and when you where done you put it back in a wooden bottle carrier.
They would also check your oil without short sticking the dip stick. There WAS Short Sticking and Razor cutting of BELTS in those days though..
and when they where all done they would smile and say thank you and have a good day.

My dad owned his station BEFORE "Sales Tax" was added to the price of gas, and when it was introduced...he ADDED it to the total (instead of burying it IN THE PRICE) - in less than 2 weeks he was instructed by UNION OIL that it had to be put IN THE PRICE so Consumers didn't see it.

Now think about it - at 8% Sales Tax (which doesn't include all the other TAXES on Gas) @ $4.00 per gallon, roughly 29 cents of that is SALES TAX.

They actually pumped the gas for you? WOWWWWWWW

Yup talk about change in service. Now in some places they make you pay your gas IN ADVANCE before YOU can pump your gas.

I feel old. I worked at a GULF station when it was less than 37 cents a gallon.

Remember when a person's word and/or shaking hands was all you needed when...
Renting a house
Borrowing tools
Coming to help you move
Buying anything used
Getting your dating daughter home by curfew!!

you guys are OLD....

lol

When gas was 35 cents or cheaper?.... I remember with it was .35 a GALLON!

They Pumped it for you with a smile…………..Yep, and I did a lot of that pumping!

They gave you S&H Green Stamps………Yep, and so did grocery stores. I helped my Mom wet a lot of those stamps and glue them into the books.

They washed your windshield and back window with a spray bottle of real window cleaner………I had a Barracuda, with all that glass, I got the car half washed for 5 bucks worth of gas.

As for the sodas in the glass bottles. …… Coke also had the state that they were bottled in stamped on the bottom and a lot of money changed hands betting on which one had the bottle that was the furthest away.

When gas was 35 cents or cheaper.
They pumped it for you with a smile.
They gave you s&h green stamps.
They gave you a glass or dinner plate.
they washed your windshield and back window with a spray bottle and real window cleaner.
As they where filling your car you would go get a soda out of the machine that was more like a cooler where the glass bottles were hung buy there neck and slid them out, and when you where done you put it back in a wooden bottle carrier.
They would also check your oil without short sticking the dip stick.
and when they where all done they would smile and say thank you and have a good day.

Ron, did they start your car for you with the little crank in the front afterwards? lol

Come on McLin, I know you can remember cheaper than that. Remember GAS WARS!...29.9 cents and sometimes even cheaper.
I had forgotten about the states on the bottom of the bottles...I do remember NeHi sodas. Nothing like running into the corner store on a hummid eastern summer day to put your hands in the ice water in the soda box...it even had a special smell...no air conditioning then either.
I can remember practically living at Macs Service Station going through all the left over bald tires to find just a hint of tread to put on my 58 Ford..."Little Sunshine". (I brush painted it yellow)
Ahhh...the good ol days.
Gary McAllister

No but I had 460 air conditioning.4 windows down sixty miles an hour.
how many remember vent windows.

Yeah, and the coolest spot was lying in the back window hat shelf...LOL

No but I had 460 air conditioning.4 windows down sixty miles an hour.
how many remember vent windows.

in jersey it is full service only!

rumor has it..the drivers up there can't figure out how to do it themselves?

Could it be from all the DDT spayed back then?:rolleyes:in jersey it is full service only!

rumor has it..the drivers up there can't figure out how to do it themselves?

kat it also cost more to go to pa. or ny and pump it yourself

Yeah, and the coolest spot was lying in the back window hat shelf...LOL

yea tim I remember laying up there and my dad hollering at me to get down because he couldn't see out the back.

Remember the drive in theaters and when the Alabama Crimson Tide won the Championship every other year and when Bobby & Donnie Allison, Richard Petty, David Pearson, Cale Yarbrough, Buddy Baker & Darrell Waltrip were the top dogs in NASCAR?:woohoo: The good 'ol days for sure.:thumbsup:

Fair Park Drive-Inn had $5 car load. We got about fifteen teenagers in my dads Pontiac Bonneville! :eek:We had people stuffed in the back floorboards and trunk.

Oh yes, that old car had a heck of a lot of hood surfing at 40 mph too. Man, we were stupid back then!!!

Fair Park Drive-Inn had $5 car load. We got about fifteen teenagers in my dads Pontiac Bonneville! :eek:We had people stuffed in the back floorboards and trunk.

Been there done that Tim, and looking at your #52, it reminds me of Jimmy "Smut" Means from Huntsville, AL that raced in NASCAR back in the day and never had a chance to win but showed up at every race and did the best he could with what he had, gotta give the man credit.

At BIR the big movie screen was behind the backstretch. Darrell Waltrip said he was leading a race there one year and a giant lady pulled a gun on him while heading down the backstretch. LOL

Yes, I remember Jimmy well.
Been there done that Tim, and looking at your #52, it reminds me of Jimmy "Smut" Means from Huntsville, AL that raced in NASCAR back in the day and never had a chance to win but showed up at every race and did the best he could with what he had, gotta give the man credit.

Yep, I remember most all of that, and Micky D's having a hamburger, frys, and a Coke for less than 50 cents.

I worked at Micky D's when a hamburger, frys and a coke were less than 50 cents.LoL !!!

For $2 we would ride around all night, then it was 25-27 cents a gallon, stores, service stations Exxon was called Esso. My mother would redeem the S&H green stamps for household items. Grants (open air market) was a place all of the hot rodders would hang out, police were different then to; they'd always say we know what you guys are up to so go home before somebody gets hurt.

Families and friends of the family would visit each other regularily, now you barely hear from each other once a month even by phone or computer. And if a friend today shows up at the door, the question is - what are you doing here?

Seems like all the technology we have, made it hard to take the time to say hi to the people we know and love.

When gas was 35 cents or cheaper.
They pumped it for you with a smile.



I pumped a lot of it after school for 23.9
Washed the windows, and checked the oil.
Would check the air in the tires if asked...

Lucky Strikes were a quarter a pack.
So was 2 donuts and a coffee.
New cars were the same price as a set of wheels and tires today...:(

Standard of living is generally higher now than it was in the "good old days".

I guess I'm not pessimistic enough to think that every day is worse than the previous day. :)

Standard of living is generally higher now than it was in the "good old days".


In part, this MAY be part of the problem AMERICA has... We have a HIGHER Standard of LIVING, but don't have the means to PAY for that Standard...so it gets eaten up by using CREDIT - that at SOME POINT becomes Due and Payable.

You said it Joe.

ipod iphone internet cable sattelite radio, cars gotta have bluetooth heated seats,mirrors AND steering wheel, automatic climate control, mag wheels, power everything, 24 inch spinners, GPS, rear view camera AND IT HAS TO PARRALEL PARK BY ITSELF. Your radio, tv dvd,fireplace heck now even your venitian blinds, has gotta have a remote, We got AC in everything everywhere, heated bathroom floors, and don't forget your bling and your grillz, yo. All that ends up costing you.

I must just be lucky because no one has ever put a gun to my head and forced me to buy something. :rolleyes:

Pat,

We all know about this thing called HYPE

With HYPE we all bought into the NEED to have a computer to make our lives easier and better... (True or NOT, most homes have HOW many computers?) Same goes for a TV, CAR, MORTGAGE, and most of the little things we (as people) think we can't do without.

It's no different than what we see in the small R/C Racing World.

People buy products because there is HYPE making them believe they need something

Why do you think these companies ADVERTISE - they KNOW it works...

Do you belong to LIFELOCK Yet? - better hurry, someone is going to steal your identity if you don't hurry up and join.

Yeah, and the coolest spot was lying in the back window hat shelf...LOL

Or how many people you could stuff into that new VW thing called a bug!!!

When I was 16, 4 gal gas $1.00, 4 packs of cigs $1.00. To fill my Cushman 23 cents.


73's
Sam

remember when cigs in a machine was 50 cents and a quarter was in the pack,

Sohio gas was 32 cents and a fillup got you 1/2 gallon of pepsi and green stamps.

the local gas station made gas powered go-carts.

you could spend all night at the local drive-in with 20 friends, no one called the cops.

Now where goin back in time. hehe
Use to ride my miny bike to the sinclair gas station and fill it up for 10 cents

Nascar was Winston Cup.

They RACED and were allowed to race.

Hershey Bars were only 10 cents.

Cokes were a quarter.

There were only two compounds Blue and Green and they WORKED.

Hotel rooms at the race were only $30 and there were 4 or more of us in there.

If I remember correctly, the coke in the water filled coolers was 10 cents a bottle and 2 cents of that was for the bottle. 8 ounce bottles.

1969 ( just prior to the draft board breathing down my back) worked at a Sinclair station. Gas around 20 cents a gallon and cheaper when we had gas wars. For even a dollars worth of gas you got the windshield washed, oil check, and anything else the customer wanted checked on their car.

No one ever filled up their tank. "Give me a dollars worth of ethel" For those that don't know, ethel was higher octane gas.

Could put a dollars worth of gas in my "57 Chevy and drive "The Loop" all night.

A footlong hotdog at the local Dairy Queen was 25 cents and a large chocolate malt was also 25 cents.

Anyone any older than that?

Bill Murdock

this is for us old timers
http://moreoldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm


My born on date 1955

1969 100 octane was .33 per gal, thats what I had to put in my 66 fairlane GT 390 I pumped a lot of it in my time, think I made $.85 per hr and had money left over. born on date 1951 :dude: the dude prevails.

That was cool !! Thanks
Born on date 1954
this is for us old timers
http://moreoldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm


My born on date 1955

[edited] Let' stay away from the political crap.

My birthdate was 1943,grew up in the 60s,been there,done that!!!!.Had a lot of fun!!!!.Nuff said LOL.

Captain 11,
That was great,thanx.

Anyone any older than that?

Bill Murdock

Late 60's a MickyD burger was .18. Worked at a hambuger joint that sold burgers for .15 to compete. Made .75 an hour to start but after 3 years was up to a buck 5 and living large!

Local gas was normally 24.9 except for the end of month price wars when it would drop 19.9 Could stick a couple of bucks in my '63 Studebaker Lark (hey, I lived in South Bend), drive over to the "shady" side of town to get a bum to buy us a couple bottles of Boones Farm (.79 a bottle) and drive around all night. Sure can't do that now a days.

The local crusie spot was Michigan & Main Streets by Bonnie Doons and Azar's (drive ins). If you wanted to impress the guys, stop in the corner station and get a couple bucks of Sunoco 260! If you had the big bucks, you got red line or wide oval tires for your car.

I think I just saw WIND and DIRT fighting over who was YOUNGER than HANK!

How many ruined good baseball cards in the spocks on there bikes not knowing what they be worth today.

I remember having a NY Giants Willie Mays card, and scratching out NEW YORK and writing in with a pencil San Francisco

I was a REDS Fan in the mid 70's and had

Bench
Rose
Geronimo
Morgan
and most of the players that year

That site is great! If you guys have not checked it out, do so.

this is for us old timers
http://moreoldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm


My born on date 1955

Too Kool Capt. Thanks!
My question is what did you have to do to get the quarter?
I stacked empty pop bottles, stocked shelves at the local corner store! And a paper route before and after school!
9/30/55 2:02 pm I passed James Dean on his way upstairs!
Kid