| To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (4988) | 7/30/2024 11:04:05 AM | | From: miraje | | | | A time when gasoline was 0.29 cents a litre and air was free.
When I was a teenager working as a pump jockey at a Texaco station, gasoline was less than 0.29 cents a (US) gallon. I pumped your gas, washed your windshield, checked your oil level and tire pressure and gave you S&H Green Stamps with your change (boss hated that). Free road map, too, if you asked for one. :-)
Times have changed, although you can still get a free air check at most big tire stores here in the States.. |
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| To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (4988) | 7/30/2024 11:15:47 AM | | From: ralfph | | | | | Heck I remember when Pay-less gas was selling gasoline for 23 cents a gallon - ( or 6 cents a litre) - we would collect a case of empty beer bottles, cash them in and get a gallon of gas. We could do road trips on cashing in beer and pop bottles. |
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| To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (4994) | 7/30/2024 11:31:34 AM | | From: ralfph | | | | | I wanted a 55 -57 Nomad - my dad would not get out of his chair to come look at any, Also found a 32 ford pickup, X show truck with a flathead - same thing he would not look at it - basically insisted on the falcon. A year after that I rented my own garage and started building a hot rod without my parents knowledge. That little garage became a stop spot for bikers and cops..... and boy was I green. |
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| To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (4996) | 7/30/2024 11:53:33 AM | | From: ralfph | | | | | The cops had these huge thermoses of coffee, the bikers would drink beer - I had a cooler that pretty much remained full. Might have happened a couple of times a week when they would drop buy - for the cops I think it was a quiet place to sit back for 15 minutes, for the bikers I had a knack at gas welding, I was fringe and made a point of staying that way. Lots of stories over the years I had the garage, I think I had it 3 years before my parents clued in. Like I said - I was green - still am in many respects;) |
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