Memories of low gas prices ...
Jan 8, 2015 09:54:16 #
From a roadside old gas station museum on the low road to Taos, New Mexico. The sudden low gas prices take us back nearly to the days when these pumps were state of the art technology ....
Jan 8, 2015 10:02:03 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
From a roadside old gas station museum on the low road to Taos, New Mexico. The sudden low gas prices take us back nearly to the days when these pumps were state of the art technology ....
Oh yes indeed. 1963 summer job was pumping gas at a local Super Par station. There were many gas wars that summer, and for a time I was pumping gas for $0.10 a gallon. This included washing the windows, checking the oil, and the air in the tires. My high school friends all came in for the treatment and made sure that I did not skip anything.
Between times, I spend hours white washing the sides of the pump islands and trying to clean the windshields of the 18 wheelers that came through.
Jan 8, 2015 10:04:15 #
i remember those gas stations with pumps that had glass containers full of the gas..yes that was 75 years ago...a time long gone
norma
norma
Jan 8, 2015 10:32:12 #
I remember as a child that the gas attendant would clean the windows and offer to check the tire pressure and oil. Those were the good old days!!!! Now I have to go to the service bay at Walmart to get my tire pressure checked. I never can get the air nozzle right on the tire and end up leaving out more air than I get in.
Jan 8, 2015 12:20:15 #
grae wrote:
Norma - glad you enjoyed. This was a random stop we just happened to see along the drive.i remember those gas stations with pumps that had glass containers full of the gas..yes that was 75 years ago...a time long gone
norma
norma
Jan 8, 2015 12:21:53 #
Bob - a painted gas stations for a year as one of many odd jobs in my youth, but that was years after these types of pumps were removed from service ...
Jan 8, 2015 12:22:45 #
dragonswing wrote:
It's worse in 5F temps ... :-)I remember as a child that the gas attendant would clean the windows and offer to check the tire pressure and oil. Those were the good old days!!!! Now I have to go to the service bay at Walmart to get my tire pressure checked. I never can get the air nozzle right on the tire and end up leaving out more air than I get in.
Jan 9, 2015 09:31:56 #
BobHartung wrote:
Oh yes indeed. 1963 summer job was pumping gas at... (show quote)
I did the same thing working for my Dad in the sixties but was washing cars and changing oil in between and trying to learn all I could about cars while doing it. Cars have changed so much since then I feel like I know how to do very little now. I also remember the gas wars we had a few times back then and gas did drop to 10 cents a gallon. Now under $2.00 looks good.
Jan 9, 2015 09:35:07 #
I remember putting oil in my car from those kinda cans ;) I still have a Quaker State can (unopened) Those were made in my hometown, where the refinery was located.
Jan 9, 2015 09:48:47 #
I seem to recall not too long ago, you couldn't pump your own gas in Oregon - state law said you had to have an attendant pump it for you. They also didn't have a state income tax but the sales tax was around 10%.
Jan 9, 2015 12:48:34 #
DragonsLady wrote:
I seem to recall not too long ago, you couldn't pump your own gas in Oregon - state law said you had to have an attendant pump it for you. They also didn't have a state income tax but the sales tax was around 10%.
Still can't pump you own in Oregon.
Jan 9, 2015 13:34:42 #
My memories of worrying about gas start in the 70s with the OPEC embargo and queuing for gas, although those memories have a rather young child's haze to them .... Can you pump your own gas yet on the New Jersey Turnpike?
Jan 9, 2015 18:14:42 #
DragonsLady wrote:
I seem to recall not too long ago, you couldn't pump your own gas in Oregon - state law said you had to have an attendant pump it for you. They also didn't have a state income tax but the sales tax was around 10%.
It's been a long time since we went to California, but at that time an attendant had to pump the gas. Hubby got out to do it himself and ended up just talking to the young man. He told Hubby that it was just way too humid and hot. The relative humidity was 10 percent and 102 degrees. We were shocked as we were comfortable. That low humidity sure made a difference as it isn't unusual for us to have 90 & 100 percent humidity in South Louisiana.
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