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I ran across an old Gasoline credit card charge slip from my father in law today.
18.2 gallons of supreme gas for only $6.65 !
I was 17 years old and $20 bucks was a lot of money in those days!
Coin Collecting was not even on the horizon.
18.2 gallons of supreme gas for only $6.65 !
I was 17 years old and $20 bucks was a lot of money in those days!
Coin Collecting was not even on the horizon.
I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.
The name is LEE!
The name is LEE!
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Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
My first memories of my mother getting gas are from that same time.
I distinctly remember the price being 29.9 cents/gallon. She'd ask the
attendant (self serve wasn't even a concept!) for $2, or maybe $1 if
payday hadn't been too recent.
I'm feeling old...
Edited to add: Just noticed the receipt is for supreme. Price seems right.
Along with odd-even gas rationing and hours-long gas lines.
As I had just obtained my drivers license, I "earned" driving privileges by lining up at 5 am to fill up the family car.
Our car at the time got a whopping 6 mpg!!! That'll learn ya to have an Oldsmobile 455 4-barrel!!!
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
I was 6 or 7 at that age, so my memory may be off, but it sounds about right.
<< <i>I am not that old, and I remember buying gas for 69 or 79 cents a gallon. I think that was in the early 1990's. Does anyone else recall those prices, or am I imagining it? >>
I remember 99 cents in the early 90's, same time taco bell's value meno was 39 cents, 59 cents, 79 cents I think.
No...waitaminit...wrong picture.
Here it is...
Jeff
<< <i>I remember when the price went up from 29.9 cents a gallon to 49.9 cents a gallon during the 1973-74 oil "crisis."
Along with odd-even gas rationing and hours-long gas lines.
As I had just obtained my drivers license, I "earned" driving privileges by lining up at 5 am to fill up the family car.
Our car at the time got a whopping 6 mpg!!! That'll learn ya to have an Oldsmobile 455 4-barrel!!! >>
The 69 442 w/ a 455 rocket block; now that was the sh*t I got high 11's at Atco, with slicks.
<< <i>I am not that old, and I remember buying gas for 69 or 79 cents a gallon. I think that was in the early 1990's. Does anyone else recall those prices, or am I imagining it? >>
No chance
<< <i>A promotional event in Fremont, California. Somewhere around the year 2000, I believe. Gas for 99 cents.
Hey, looks like they even brought Ponch back for the promotion!
<< <i>I am not that old, and I remember buying gas for 69 or 79 cents a gallon. I think that was in the early 1990's. Does anyone else recall those prices, or am I imagining it? >>
I recall paying $0.69/gal around 1991 in Knoxville TN, and remember watching my dad pump gas at $0.55/gal back around 1980. Hard to imagine.
<< <i>You should probably becareful about posting his credit number on the internet. There are probably thousands of people trying to buy gas with it right now. Anyway, I was close to empty this morning so I think I am going to go fuel up.
That account has long since been closed friend and he passed away a couple of years ago.
If you want to buy gas with that number, you are more than welcome to but I'll let you know ahead of time, the account number is invalid.
The name is LEE!
<< <i>I am not that old, and I remember buying gas for 69 or 79 cents a gallon. I think that was in the early 1990's. Does anyone else recall those prices, or am I imagining it? >>
Probably depends on where you live. I remember going to Alabama to play the
RTJ golf trail there about 10 years ago and was shocked to see Regular at 89.9
cents. It was at least a quarter higher in CA at that time.
<< <i>A promotional event in Fremont, California. Somewhere around the year 2000, I believe. Gas for 99 cents.
No...waitaminit...wrong picture.
Here it is...
What's the word?.....Thunderbird.
What's the price?......Thirty twice.
The Thunderbird bottle was taken in the midst of many more on a pullout some way down some dirt road, close to Mexican Hat, Utah. Self destruction on the 'Navajo rez'. Very sad, actually.
Got change back. This was in the early 60s, on the Marine Base. I am pretty sure gas was about 18 cents a gallon.
<<That account has long since been closed friend and he passed away a couple of years ago.
If you want to buy gas with that number, you are more than welcome to but I'll let you know ahead of time, the account number is invalid. >>
My lame attempt at humor did not translate in a written post. I was thinking about the times in which we live and how identity theft is such a problem and I was imagining lots of people stealing a credit card from the 1960s and trying to buy gas ... it struck me as a little funny. Sorry, no offense was meant.
Chris
<< <i>I worked at a Texaco near that time, anyone remember "gas wars"? >>
Do you mean when instead of a station at each intersection they started making 4 stations at each intersection? They had wars lowering prices by a fraction of a cent then giving trinkets to get you to buy from them. They had antena balls at 76, drinking glass sets at Chevron and you got more glasses with each visit, Arks at Arco then animals for your ark with each visit, one station gave out the bronze president coins until you had all presidents (maybe Shell?). Some station gave out tanker trucks like Tonka trucks (maybe Texaco?)
I was a gas station manager the first time the price of gas hit $1. It was in the early part of 1979. Other than promotional prices, I haven't seen it lower since.
Some gas station trinkets from the mid 60's
When I was younger I pulled in to get a dollars worth and they cleaned the windshield and checked all the fluids too.
<< <i>I am that old. I remember .199. OUCH!!!!
When I was younger I pulled in to get a dollars worth and they cleaned the windshield and checked all the fluids too. >>
Before the price went up to 29.9 I can remember scrounging up a buck just to carry me over for a Friday Nights cruising!
Two bucks could get me from Sunnyvale to Santa Cruz and three bucks would get me home again.
As for getting the windshield cleaned, I worked at a Texaco Star & Bar and cleaned a couple of windshields when mini's were popular!
The name is LEE!
<< <i>I ran across an old Gasoline credit card charge slip from my father in law today.
18.2 gallons of supreme gas for only $6.65 !
I was 17 years old and $20 bucks was a lot of money in those days!
Coin Collecting was not even on the horizon. >>
That credid card receipt is interesting, considering that Visa was just in it's infancy. Probably a Diners Club card or American Express. I think those were the only 2 plastic cards available prior to 1966.
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<< <i>I am that old. I remember .199. OUCH!!!!
When I was younger I pulled in to get a dollars worth and they cleaned the windshield and checked all the fluids too. >>
As for getting the windshield cleaned, I worked at a Texaco Star & Bar and cleaned a couple of windshields when mini's were popular!
I worked at a Mobil-been there and done that. Sparkling clean windshields.
<< <i>That credid card receipt is interesting, considering that Visa was just in it's infancy. >>
Back then Visa was called Bank Americard. I guess they later changed their name to Visa since it was more catchy.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
I was very popular in high school because I had the keys to the station. Premium (ethyl) was around 25 cents a gallon then. Of course you could buy a new car for under $2500. Now the gas is around 10 times the price but then again so is the car.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Chris
<< <i>I believe the credit card in question was issued by the oil company. >>
Back then they were all issued by oil companies. I remember going across country staying at all the hotels that would take those cards and I had a lot of them.
<< <i>I believe that the Oil company's started issuing proprietary cards as early as the 1920's...they were charge cards & not credit cards, not made out of plastic ... I believe that Sears started their proprietary card in 1964 or 65, made out of metal. >>
Since we're travelin' down Memory Lane, I seem to recall that service stations
used to give out Blue Chip (or Green, the competition) Stamps for gas purchases.
Nothing like the thrill of filling up a book of those...
I remember sitting in a line for a couple of hours to get gas at 50 cents a gallon. The next jump was around 1978
when the lines again formed and gas was now .75 a gallon. Then it went to a buck.
I too have all those sets from the gas stations.
Sunoco and the car tokens in aluminum
Shell had the presidents.
Ahh 1973 I was 17 and I drove a 1967 Mercury Cougar.
Steve
Steve