more memories
Dec 16, 2021 09:31:33 #
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Dec 16, 2021 09:41:44 #
Yes Sir, but my curfew was when the street lights came on (we had electricity…and everything) 😂
When I got my driver’s license gas was $.48/ gallon. My Brothers (7 and 9 years older) paid $.23 and they could cruise in Mom’s car all night for $2.00 🤬
When I got my driver’s license gas was $.48/ gallon. My Brothers (7 and 9 years older) paid $.23 and they could cruise in Mom’s car all night for $2.00 🤬
Dec 16, 2021 09:58:41 #
Remember them all. The cash registers had an opening on the side where you could put a crank when you lost electricity I remember that one real good.
Dec 16, 2021 09:59:33 #
OJdidit wrote:
Yes Sir, but my curfew was when the street lights came on (we had electricity…and everything) 😂
When I got my driver’s license gas was $.48/ gallon. My Brothers (7 and 9 years older) paid $.23 and they could cruise in Mom’s car all night for $2.00 🤬
When I got my driver’s license gas was $.48/ gallon. My Brothers (7 and 9 years older) paid $.23 and they could cruise in Mom’s car all night for $2.00 🤬
Yep, remember all of them.
I had to be in by dark.
I grew up in Texas and remember gas prices in the teens. Once during a gas war between fillin stations we saw gas for .05 cents a gal.
Dec 16, 2021 12:23:48 #
saw1 wrote:
Yep, remember all of them.
I had to be in by dark.
I grew up in Texas and remember gas prices in the teens. Once during a gas war between fillin stations we saw gas for .05 cents a gal.
I had to be in by dark.
I grew up in Texas and remember gas prices in the teens. Once during a gas war between fillin stations we saw gas for .05 cents a gal.
Got my license in Dec. of 1965,
my first car ('57 Chevy) around July/August of '66 ! Gas prices
at that time was about $.30
to $.35/gallon - now it's more
than TEN TIMES that amount !
Dec 16, 2021 13:00:45 #
saw1 wrote:
Yep, remember all of them.
I had to be in by dark.
I grew up in Texas and remember gas prices in the teens. Once during a gas war between fillin stations we saw gas for .05 cents a gal.
I had to be in by dark.
I grew up in Texas and remember gas prices in the teens. Once during a gas war between fillin stations we saw gas for .05 cents a gal.
“Fillin Station” is an oldie in its self…🐟on
Dec 16, 2021 13:34:34 #
Slimshady
Loc: Central Pennsylvania
Whew. Brings back a lot of memories. I worked in a market like that stocking shelves at night so it didn’t interfere with school.
Dec 16, 2021 15:56:59 #
Big A wrote:
Got my license in Dec. of 1965,
my first car ('57 Chevy) around July/August of '66 ! Gas prices
at that time was about $.30
to $.35/gallon - now it's more
than TEN TIMES that amount !
my first car ('57 Chevy) around July/August of '66 ! Gas prices
at that time was about $.30
to $.35/gallon - now it's more
than TEN TIMES that amount !
True. How much was average wage? My dad tells me a nickel used to get him a lot of things. I have to always ask how much was a days pay at the time?
Dec 16, 2021 17:13:58 #
Jeremy wrote:
True. How much was average wage? My dad tells me a nickel used to get him a lot of things. I have to always ask how much was a days pay at the time?
Was working part-time after
school as a dishwasher (1965)
for $.95/hr. until I got my license -
the following summer (1966)
I worked at a car dealership prepping/detailing trade-ins
for re-sale at about $1.25/
$1.50 hr. and bought the Chevy !
Dec 16, 2021 19:08:54 #
Big A wrote:
Was working part-time after
school as a dishwasher (1965)
for $.95/hr. until I got my license -
the following summer (1966)
I worked at a car dealership prepping/detailing trade-ins
for re-sale at about $1.25/
$1.50 hr. and bought the Chevy !
school as a dishwasher (1965)
for $.95/hr. until I got my license -
the following summer (1966)
I worked at a car dealership prepping/detailing trade-ins
for re-sale at about $1.25/
$1.50 hr. and bought the Chevy !
So minimum wage is more than 10xs what it was back then. Inflation sucks but will always be. There is more people so demand will probably always increase for some things. In Economics class we studied the fact that price goes up or amount of whatever your buying goes down for same cost. That was 35+ years ago.
Dec 16, 2021 20:11:20 #
That's fine over the long haul, but inflation is in runaway mode thanks
to certain people (who shall remain nameless) - don't know about your
area, but here the price of gas has jumped from $2.25/$2.50 gal. to $3.79/$3.99 gal. since this time
last year ! That's over $1.50 gal.
increase almost overnight ! Like
I said - runaway inflation !
to certain people (who shall remain nameless) - don't know about your
area, but here the price of gas has jumped from $2.25/$2.50 gal. to $3.79/$3.99 gal. since this time
last year ! That's over $1.50 gal.
increase almost overnight ! Like
I said - runaway inflation !
Dec 16, 2021 22:34:57 #
Ronniejw wrote:
some more if you can remember them
Absolutely. I remember all of that and back a ways. I can remember high test gas at $.37/gallon. 120 octane pump gas. Nickel bottles of coke at the Sinclair station in a pop machine out front and a penny deposit on the bottle. If you drank the Coke there you didn’t have to pay the deposit. Just lift the lid on the Coke machine and give the gas station attendant a nickel. Nobody even thought of stealing one. Now people steal the whole machine.
Dec 16, 2021 22:39:00 #
Big A wrote:
That's fine over the long haul, but inflation is in runaway mode thanks
to certain people (who shall remain nameless) - don't know about your
area, but here the price of gas has jumped from $2.25/$2.50 gal. to $3.79/$3.99 gal. since this time
last year ! That's over $1.50 gal.
increase almost overnight ! Like
I said - runaway inflation !
to certain people (who shall remain nameless) - don't know about your
area, but here the price of gas has jumped from $2.25/$2.50 gal. to $3.79/$3.99 gal. since this time
last year ! That's over $1.50 gal.
increase almost overnight ! Like
I said - runaway inflation !
It’s the biggest increase we’ve seen in the shortest amount of time in the history of our country and it was all implemented by those “nameless” folks you speak of in the last year🤔
Dec 16, 2021 23:37:16 #
Good thing for some I won't/
wouldn't get my way and some
would think me harsh for my
attitude, but skunks need to
be put down before they get
the chance to spread their
'stink' !
Have all those 'unnamed' folk (especially the top two) and
their cohorts declared varmints
and put a bounty on them, then
let any/all bounty hunters have
their fun ! Good riddance, and let
our country get back to normal !
wouldn't get my way and some
would think me harsh for my
attitude, but skunks need to
be put down before they get
the chance to spread their
'stink' !
Have all those 'unnamed' folk (especially the top two) and
their cohorts declared varmints
and put a bounty on them, then
let any/all bounty hunters have
their fun ! Good riddance, and let
our country get back to normal !
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