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To: outofsalt
"1930 10 cents , 1940 11 cents , 1950 18 cents , 1960 25 cents ,..."

When, in 1945 (I was 12), I got my drivers license, I could caddy Saturday & Sunday making 15 cents for 18 holes. This gave me enough money for gas, fun, dates, etc...As long as I got the gas at the Jenny station...Had to manually pump your gas for 13 cents a gallon...

By my senior year in high school (1951), gas had gotten really expensive. However I could pump Jenny for 16-17 cents...In fact, most of my buddies pumped Jenny too...After graduation didn't worry about gas prices for a pretty long time since I went to Parris Island 2-weeks later...

55 posted on 04/18/2018 4:46:53 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: SuperLuminal
"However I could pump Jenny for 16-17 cents...In fact, most of my buddies pumped Jenny too."

Seems like Jenny got around ;)

110 posted on 04/19/2018 3:30:10 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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