[chuckinca]

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


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[ConeyIsBabe]

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!

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

[gary42651]

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.....

[Pturner]

Originally Posted by gary42651

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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[jblum8156]

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?

[bandsdavis]

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.

[brostholder]

Originally Posted by 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

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

[glgene]

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

[ladylake1]

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