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1 posted on 12/29/2014 12:27:24 PM PST by nikos1121
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11 cents (during price war) around 1960 fall semester while in high school in Texas, never paid over 18 cents per gallon that semester if I recall. My cherry 1958 Ford Fairlane 4-door hardtop automatic with 351 Police Interceptor, rolled and pleated seats, lakers - 10-11 mpg.

Back when a penny a gallon saved meant extra cruise time between point A (Drive Inn - meet, eat, rest) and point B (Other points of interest to see and be seen/county roads checks to see who was parking) and back again, and back again...Back when groups of boys were boys and groups of girls were girls and we used to chase each other around the county in our cars and exchange social pleasantries if we didn’t have dates or a football game or a drag race going somewhere. Boy were we naive. Sorry to digress.


176 posted on 12/29/2014 5:20:43 PM PST by Texicanus (Texas, it's like a whole 'nother country.)
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During local gas wars in SoCal in early-mid 60’s, perhaps also late 50’s, $.16 was lowest I ever saw to $.17/gal., normal was somewhere between $.21 - $.25, as I recall.

Best prices at local Powerine self-serve station. I hardly ever had the cash to fill my ‘54 Ford, it was more like put in enough gas at a time for a night’s worth of cruising or to get back and forth to school and to work afterward.


177 posted on 12/29/2014 6:12:59 PM PST by Mjaye (Obama's chickens have come home to roost.)
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Our local gas station would have a 5 gallons for a dollar sale—late sixties.


178 posted on 12/29/2014 6:39:59 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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33 cents. And a Free Angela Davis with every fill-up!


180 posted on 12/29/2014 6:47:04 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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1969 - 25-29 cents per gallon.


181 posted on 12/29/2014 6:51:49 PM PST by McGruff (Ummm...)
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10 cents


182 posted on 12/29/2014 7:06:24 PM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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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!!”.


188 posted on 12/29/2014 8:41:46 PM PST by Drago
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25 cents a gallon at Knowles in Stockton, California around 1965 when I first began to drive.

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.

194 posted on 12/30/2014 12:32:10 AM PST by The Citizen Soldier
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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.


200 posted on 12/30/2014 5:15:30 PM PST by rabidralph
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We always bought our gas at a Sinclair station in Washington, DC or Marlow Heights.

205 posted on 12/30/2014 5:19:48 PM PST by rabidralph
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