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You actually got service at a gas station?
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Posted on: 2013/5/16 23:46
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| BillH | Re: Remember When? | ||
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Though, Miss Polish Job is a bit confusing.
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Posted on: 2013/5/16 23:47
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| Durango_Boy | Re: Remember When? | ||
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No, but I remember when gas was $0.85 a gallon. LOL.
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Posted on: 2013/5/16 23:52
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| bogus | Re: Remember When? | ||
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And I remember when gas was .30 a gallon! Yes, it wasn't that long ago. We had an Esso station (yea, before Exxon) at the corner. It's now a laundry mat. They would actually fill up the car, check the oil and tires, wash the windshield and top off the washer fluid... and then take a personal check and GIVE YOU CHANGE for it.
Were they perfect? na, but they tried hard and gave great service. They were competent, tho... good guys. One retired to WV, the other became a prison guard and he retired a few years back. I know one, Leo, the guy who went to WV, passed away a bunch of years ago. Donno about his business partner, Jim. I ran into him once in recent enough years (like 10-15). I am 47 and it was in my life time. I also remember the first embargo... the 2nd one, too... older friends made money in the 2nd one, taking cars through for the busy working stiffs. I didn't get my license until 1981. even-odd days for gas, $5.00 max fill-ups! such fun. I remember my Mom arguing with the kid at the gas station when he offered her "regular" and it was unleaded and she debated the semantics that it couldn't be "regular" because it was unleaded... ugh... she could be too smart for her own good sometimes. I think she honestly felt she was being ripped off or something. |
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| BillH | Re: Remember When? | ||
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I was pumping gas @ $.25 but thankfully didn't have to wear one of those sillyass uniforms. |
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| 76Nordic | Re: Remember When? | ||
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Do you guys know who the gal is in the first pic?
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| 76Nordic | Re: Remember When? | ||
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Miss lube rack 1955 and....
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| BillH | Re: Remember When? | ||
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| teebee | Re: Remember When? | ||
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Not who you think it is.....check it out at snopes.
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| teebee | Re: Remember When? | ||
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I pumped gas in 1969 and 70 at .26 to .32/gallon. And during a "gas war" we dropped to .17 once. I didn't have to wear one of those uniforms either. But we would wash the windows, check the oil, tires and fill the battery with water.
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| 94BlueToy | Re: Remember When? | ||
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I worked in a Standard Station the summers of my junior and senior years in HS and also the freshman and sophomore years in college during the 60s. Out here in western ND gas was always 35.9 for regular and 39.9 for ethyl. We always like to pump ethyl. In Fargo ND where I went to NDSU, gas was often down to 19 cents a gallon for regular. They had a lot of gas wars there. Yes, we did wear the striped Standard Oil uniforms, checked the oil, washed the windows and often checked the tires.
During those years I overhauled my 272 Y-block 1956 Ford (I put 312 heads and 4-barrel out of a 1956 Mercury on it with dual exhausts) and also a friend's 1960 Chevy 283. OF course, I had a shop grind the heads and bore the cylinders 10 over. I did all of the tear down and putting back together. Damn it is nice to remember the years when nothing seemed impossible. I wish I had that brash self-confidence these days. |
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| Ultraman | Re: Remember When? | ||
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You can trust your car to the man who wears the star....That was me working at Jenson's Texaco in the Big O all through high school....went from a buck an hour to 1.25 and of course could bring my car in anytime it wasn't busy and work on it.....64 Polara 500.
I remember when the bells rang we hit the pumps with a full service deal.....check the oil and the tires and also my personal favorite...wash the windshields....remember the short skirts back in those days....and you know the girls thought you were staring at the buggy windshields.....nevermind..... |
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| Matatk | Re: Remember When? | ||
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| BillH | Re: Remember When? | ||
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Friends of your kids already call you "Mister" don't they? |
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| BillH | Re: Remember When? | ||
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I did 3, Esso, Atlantic Richfield and Gulf (where the race team was). I was driving a tow truck at 16. |
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| 94BlueToy | Re: Remember When? | ||
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I am getting old. I forgot about how hard I washed on some windshields trying to get them clean. Some took so much work. |
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| BillH | Re: Remember When? | ||
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At the Esso station, we had a contract to wash the State Police cars.
Since they had rubber flooring instead of carpet, we'd hose em down and scrub the floors with soap and a broom. The owner, Yogi, would drive the cars to and from the station. He lost the contract when one of the officers saw him pulling over a buddy with the lights and siren blasting.  |
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| vetteblondie | Re: Remember When? | ||
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Do tell... I was told it was Nancy Pelosi
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| pianoguy | Re: Remember When? | ||
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Yep, I remember it got to .199 here during one of those gas wars. It was typically around .259 when I started driving. I remember we had an M&H gas station where they'd do all that service with a fill-up (along with emptying the ash trays), and you'd get a tumbler or some other trinket from their little treasure chest to boot. |
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Posted on: 2013/5/17 3:07
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| pianoguy | Re: Remember When? | ||
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P.S. - just for a reality check, right now gas is about as high here as anywhere in the country, about 4.25. It shot up about 40 cents overnight, some BS about a refinery or pipeline shutting down for maintenance. A-holes!
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| vetteblondie | Re: Remember When? | ||
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I remember premium for my vette was 85 cents - 95 cents a gallon and then on my next vette I could get 101 for $2.49 a gallon and thought that was absolutely outrageous. All the places had a pump with it. Now, none of them do.
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Posted on: 2013/5/17 3:24
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| BillH | Re: Remember When? | ||
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Posted on: 2013/5/17 3:35
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| joeld | Re: Remember When? | ||
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That's the same time frame for me. Same price, but there was a "war" going on several times a year. Mine was a Pure station, later changed to Union 76. Never did understand why I worked 12 hrs a day, 6 days a week for peanuts? At the time I guess I thought it was fun. Joel |
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| teebee | Re: Remember When? | ||
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I worked at the K-T Oil Fina station.
Working for peanuts is all very fine, but I can show you a better time.......Baby you can drive my car. I got to wash the Fina and independent pumpers trucks. Freaking filthy, oily, greasy, inside and out. It would take me 3-4 hours just to clean the outside. |
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| Ultraman | Re: Remember When? | ||
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We didn't have full uniforms but we did have to wear our Texaco shirts with our names and of course the Texaco Star....ding ding....ding ding....oh my gosh its Rhonda Lundeen head cheerleader......full sprint out of oil change bay......Hi Rhonda, fill it up? Let me get your windshild for you......want it vacumed out?
Sure you little rodent give me the works...... Yes ma'me ...... |
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| BillH | Re: Remember When? | ||
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Musta been the "Habib" on the shirt. I remember the news footage of that, trying to get enough bucks to ask Ronda out. |
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| teebee | Re: Remember When? | ||
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Back then the guys who worked in the gas stations were cool to most of the girls.....small town Kansas probably. They came in to see us......well, not me but the other guys, I was (still am?) a dork.
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