[jebartle]

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!

[tpop1]

Originally Posted by jebartle

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!

Remember??? What????:

[jblum8156]

I don't think anybody ever tipped them either.

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by jebartle

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!

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.

[swrinfla]

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

[chuckinca]

Originally Posted by jebartle

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!

And S&H Green Stamps and Water Glasses.


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[Yoda]

Originally Posted by jebartle

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!

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

Yoda

[Pturner]

Originally Posted by jebartle

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!

Plus they washed your windshield!

[glgene]

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

[pooh]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5iypuYl4E0&feature=related[/ame]

[philnpat]

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.

[Pturner]

Originally Posted by pooh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5iyp...eature=related

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

[pooh]

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

[gary42651]

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.

[Bill-n-Brillo]

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

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