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It Must Be Really Old
Topic Started: June 3, 2012, 1:07 am (1,305 Views)
Cloud Watcher
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I decided to start reading some of the books I;ve loaded on my Kindle. There was a set of books I found awhile back about a girl like Nancy Drew, who liked solving mysteries. I had no idea how old the stories were.

I read one tonight. At one point her car was running out of gas. She pulled into a station and told the attendant to fill it up. He also checked the oil and added 2 quarts. When everything was finished he told her the total came to $2.58. Gee whiz, I can't even buy a single gallon of gas for that. This must be a really old book. :nod
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raml
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That sounds like it is back in my teen years and I am 67 so yes the book is a bit old. Sounds nice though having the oil checked and windshields cleaned that does take me back to more innocent times of my life.
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cricket55
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That does sound like it was from very long ago. :heh
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IamHis
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I am 60 and I remember full service gas stations too. Some of us drove
old clunkers when we were very young as they were all we could afford.
We used to joke to the attendants to 'check the gas and fill the oil'.
The lowest price I can remember for a gallon of gas was 25 cents. Yep,
it's true. Cigarettes could be obtained out of a vending machine for 35 cents
a pack. Bread was on sale at a local bakery on Sundays for 10 cents a loaf.
Sunday matinee movies were a dollar. One of my first apartments, the rent
was 125.00 a month for a two bedroom with attic storage and off street
parking.
My, my , how times have changed.
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Hootmon
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I worked in a full-service gas station when I was in High School.
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Cloud Watcher
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How much was gas then?
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Hootmon
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I think it was around 69 cents when I started working there. Probably closer to 85 cents when I left.

I was making about $3.50 per hour part-time. About enough to keep gas in my car and take my future wife on dates.
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roses4ruth
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In '75 or '76, I was in college and I'd get 2 gallons of gas (50 cents a gallon) to drive home. I had an old LTD that guzzled gas, but ran most of the time. At least I had a car! DH (when we were dating) used it to go to work because his stopped working at all. He had a '68 Chevelle--and still misses it, even though it didn't run most of the time. I remind him that "Razzle" (my LTD's name) was ugly, but he got him to work and back! :bounce Of course, his car would actually be worth something now....
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raml
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When I was in high school gas was 19 cents to 25 cents depending on the year. We use to gather our change to put gas in my car so we could go cruising around. We would pay with a dollar or two's worth of change. My ford edsel was a gas hog so we couldn't go to far but we could cruise our small town looking for friends (boys) who were out and about. Those were the days. I had a part time job at kresge ( later became kmart) that paid $1.00 an hour.
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When I was a kid living in California, stations across the street from each other used to put out signs that said Gas Wars. They would compete to have the lowest price, down around 15 cents.

Nowadays it costs $60 to fill my tank, with gas being about $4.25 a gallon.
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