Do you remember when??
 

you pulled up to a gas station and they checked your water, oil, filled the tank, and on request checked air in your tires, and here is the kicker, for 25 cents a gallon...Oh, lord, I'm starting to sound like my folks!:loco:

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Remember??? What????::confused::confused:

I don't think anybody ever tipped them either.

jebartle:

My aunt and uncle along with my mother and father were going on an extended trip to Europe and entrusted their car to my cousin in 1961 or 62.

I remember the first time my cousin and I pulled into a gas station and the gas was 22 cents a gallon.

For two bucks we almost filled up the gas tank. WOW Times sure have changed.

I'm as old as dirt.

Not only do I remember those days, but I also remember being the one who did all those things! Summer of 1953, on US1 in Maine.

The place also had a small walk-up restaurant with burgers, hot dogs and, of course, clam rolls. And, overnight cottages/cabins - no, not a motel.

I think gas was 19 cents. Have no idea what the cottages were, but I'd bet no more than $10. Clam rolls probably $0.75 or maybe even $1.00. (There was a lobster pound just up the road charging 40 cents a pound!)

I think that if I'd received a tip, the owner would have taken it away! I wish I could remember how much I was paid. Probably $6 or $7 a six-hour shift!

SWR
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And S&H Green Stamps and Water Glasses.


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You are your folks. Don't you get it?

Yoda

Plus they washed your windshield!

Minimum wage $1.25 an hour
 

Do you remember when the minimum wage was $1.25 an hour? I do. That was my first job at age 17 as a part-time sports writer for my local newspaper. During an evening break, we'd run and get a hamburger for a quarter and a Coke for a dime. Cigarettes, in a vending machine, were a quarter a pack, but I didn't smoke.

Gene

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I remember making $1.15/hr. When the federal minimum wage went up to $1.25 my boss came into my office and told me that I'd have to work $0.10 harder an hour.

Good one Pooh. And remember the Texaco ditty:

You can trust your car to
The man who wears the star
The big bright Texaco Star

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Pt, isn't it amazing that we remember stuff we heard when we were just months old.... ;) I remember that song!

I remember when (I think it was Esso now EXXON) said `Put a Tiger in Your Tank` and when you filled up they gave you a small tiger tail that would hang out of the gas fill door.

I do recollect reading about all this stuff in my history books......................... :ohdear:

Those were the days - when "service stations" were exactly that!! I remember some poor guy trying to really take care of cleaning the windows on my car - all of them! When he went to clean my outside rearview mirror, it snapped off in his hand. Not a happy day.......

Oddly, I've still got a few momento pieces of the glassware from back in the '60s: a white glass "Grog Mug" and a glass celebrating Apollo 11's landing on the moon, both compliments of the local Marathon station (for those of you from the midwest!). :)

Bill

Used to go to the Marathon stations, Clark, Pure, Checker, Cities Service, Phillips 66, Standard Oil, etc.


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Ummm....... I remember when gas cost 19-cents a gallon ! :cus:

I remember when all the gas stations where owned by American Companies, in the North East, Mobil was bought out By Luke Oil that also now owns Getty, and Phillips, and is owned by Lukoil of Russia, and Venezuela owns 6% of Citgo. On another note, Harley Davidson is opening a new factory in Inda, and Catipiller is opening a factory in China, after laying off workers in their plant in the USA, and we all know what happen to Anheuser Bush and now I just herd that China wants to buy the new GM stock that will be available soon..American Icons for Sale.....

The Old Gas Stations
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Welll, maybe we are our folks. But did our folks go into shock when the price of gas shot up from 25









































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































Well, maybe we are our folks, but did our folks go into shock when the price of gas shot up from 19 cents to 25 cents a gallon?

From all the reminiscing about old gas station commercials, I thought you might enjoy this story. In college (Univ of New Hampshire) I had a marketing professor named Don Marchner. Before retiring to academia, he was the Advertising Director for Shell Oil Co., and he's the guy who developed the ads for "Shell with Platformate". You may remember that the ads touted that platformate added significantly to your miles per gallon. Here's the kicker: at that time, EVERY brand gasoline being sold had platformate! But, Shell advertised it first, so if anyone else started to also talk about it, they would be considered second fiddles! And Shell never said that paltformate was exclusive to them, they just said they had it. A really brilliant advertising coup, I think, and a great lesson in business that you can make something unique to your busness in the customers eyes, even if it really isn't.

B.

In my Dad's drugstore....cigarettes 1 cent each, 6 for a nickel.

Pack of gum for 5 cents
 

I remember when a 5-stick pack of gum cost 5 cents. My favorite: Juicy Fruit or Doublemint (I liked the TV commercials with cute twins).

Gene

Oh yeah. I remember a Tony the tiger tail in my gas tank too. Is that the good old days or what!!!!