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.
1969 - 25-29 cents per gallon.
10 cents
9¢ and a glass as a 5 year old. Had to put down the pet Dino for eating a neighbor in the old days.
I was a teen working at a station while going to college. Blocks long lines. Odd and even days along with green, red and yellow flags. Democrat Carter screwed the country up at that time.
I do not remember those.
I don’t remember that commercial, just the one guy driving down the street with his legs on the ground and slowly moving forward. Then they brought in another guy to race him or something like that.
I remember a small town station as a kid in Georgia that had the big glass cylinder, like a giant Pyrex measuring cup. The attendant would hand crank gasoline to fill up the cylinder to the requested amount, then it would drain through the hose & nozzle into your tank.
I definitely remember buying $0.17/gal gas. I have a hazy memory of seeing $0.11 during a Gas War, but would not swear to the accuracy of that memory.
:-)
25 cents/gal...rural foothills of California about the time I got my license/first car (1977). I remember driving past the only gas station in Yosemite valley (since removed) and thinking “Look, they are ripping off the tourists at 50 cents a gallon!!”.
33 cents was pretty much the standard price for regular when I was a kid. I remember seeing a gas station down south in 1969 advertising 19 cents a gallon but since I didn’t stop I don’t know if that was real or not.
29 cents in the late 50’s.
when in High school during the 50’s it was 19 cents a gallon. If one of the guy picked up a lot of us gals, we had to chip in for at least a gallon of gas...sometimes the fellow got 25 cents worth...
Yeah, I used to tell the attendant to give me a dollar’s worth. That was for a long trip.
and none of us felt deprived either...and were greatful if it was raining out. It was a 4 mile walk from school to home if you missed the bus.
There were also frequent "gas wars" and I vaguely remember seeing gas sell for 19 cents a gallon during one of these high octane conflicts.
Exactly. I remember driving home from Moscow, ID to Coeur D’alene 1971 while in college and about to run out of gas. Found this station in the hills and thought, “thank God!” Only to find out the guy gouging at 50 cents per gallon which was almost twice the normal amount.
WOW, you really go way back! :-)
Hey! They didn’t have cars back then! You sure that wasn’t hay? 10 bales for 13 cents? :-)
Nope..Gramps told me that back then gasoline was not wanted. They wanted the distillates. So gas was sold 10 for 13 cents. Can you imagine? Fill er up for 36 cents.
Yep, my six year old and 22 year younger wife sometimes refer to me as the fossil (living of course).
When I was about five years old in the ‘60s, I remember seeing .24. I did not know what the number meant. When I started driving in the late ‘70s, it was about .75. It had jumped 20 cents under Carter’s leadership.
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