Posted on 12/29/2014 12:27:23 PM PST by nikos1121
I can recall growing up in Chicago in the 1950s. "Oklahoma" gas stations were the most visible. I seem to recall 19 cents a gallon. The lowest price as a driver was around 29 cents. Seemed like it always was about the same as a pack of cigarettes or gallon of milk.
50 cents a gallon for regular in 1975.
48 cents. Early 70s.
$0.279 in Florida in 1972. Average price everywhere else was in the mid- to high-30s/gallon. Price war.
My father clearly remembered 15 cents/gallon in 1961 (my year of birth) at the Navy PX station at Lakehurst, NJ. Not available to civilians, though.
Now I see $1.749 at a local Sam’s Club (San Antonio). Adjusted for inflation, it is comparable to late ‘60s prices, and cars get better mileage now even with all of the heavy and restrictive safety and emissions crap. So cost per mile, adjusted for inflation, is probably about as low as ever (certainly for most people still breathing, though many Dem voters will remember lower prices :>) ).
I worked at a Gasland on Burnside Ave in East Hartford and I had to clean the with does and check the oil...
25 cents back in the 60s.
13.9 during price war when I was in third grade, 1962.And free glasses! 27.9 first gas in my own car 1973 in Indiana Farm Bureau.
FYI, I found a great inflation calculator at http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
$1.75/gallon now is equivalent to $0.26/gallon in 1968, the year my father got our 1969 GTO. Premium at that same station is now $2.19, equivalent to $0.32 in 1968 (and I remember Dad paying about $0.37 for premium then).
Note that my father’s GTO got maybe 15 mpg on the highway under ideal conditions. Compare/contrast to a typical (much faster and better handling) muscle car of today, which gets say 22 mpg highway: GTO - 2.4666 cents/mile; 2015 muscle car 1.4545 cents/mile, inflation adjusted.
Folks, TODAY is the good old days for gasoline cost per mile.
Interesting. I hate pressing buttons and waiting for things to happen. With the analog pump, you pulled a lever and were ready to go. And if I’m ever in the area, I might just stop to experience full service at least once in my life.
I’ve lucked out in the alcohol free gas department lately. A chain here in town (Hyvee in Topeka) has started offering it.
In 1960, outside of Buffalo,NY, during a gas war, I paid 14.9 cents a gallon for full service.
When I started driving I believe it was around $0.80 a gallon. As a kid with a Honda 50 mini bike I can remember it something like the upper $0.30 cent range.
I remember my dad pulling into a gas station, looking at the price on the pump, and then drive away grumbling that he would not pay 30 cents a gallon for gas.
We stopped at a station down the road that, I suppose, sold their gas at a more reasonable price.
.........yes sir, but yours and my 1964 dollar would by $7.54 worth of stuff in 2014...................
So, the true value of your .17 cents gas back in 1964 in 2014 Uni Party dollars was $1.28.
I saw a sign in Austin the other day on South Lamar for $1.99. If it keeps going down, pretty soon us old dudes will be able to say we “paid too damn much back in 64!!!!”
19 cents south of Houston in 1969... When I was mowing yards. For a quarter, I could fill my gas can, get a candy bar, and a big piece of bubble gum.
Good times....
Got $5 a yard to mow.... I could do 4-5,yards on one can.
$0.10 per gallon during a gas war in the 1950’s.
I remember when it hit 50 cents a gallon I wondered what my father would have thought about it
Can you imagine the service the females got, and not just young girls, but moms and little old ladies, they could pull in and the service men would check as much as they could, to assure the best in their car care and safety.
10 gallons for 13 cents.
I remember very well when putting a dollar in
my Beetle would run it for 3 or 4 days too.`71 that
I bought for $1,900 after getting out of the Army.
Sold it 3 yrs later at a profit and the girl that bought
it totaled it a month later.
I remember in 1999 my mom buying gas for $1.45 a gallon and complaining that it was cheaper outside of California.
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