The only things they had besides gas and oil at those gas stations were a coke vending machine and a peanut/candy bar/gum vending machine.
A bag of planters peanuts was a nickle.
BTW, air and water was free, and they pumped the gas for you. Checked your oil and water and washed your windows as well as looked at your tires.
29.9 a gallon for regular. I seen 13.9 when they had gas wars in Shawano WI.
“...29.9 a gallon for regular...”
Yep. I remember it being from the mid to high 20 cents/gallon. But yeah, the attendant would pump the gas, clean the windshield, etc. just as you state. Other than to socialize with the owner or the attendant, one didn’t even need to get out of the car. Everything was paid for with cash...no plastic back then...LOL. FWIW, when I got a little older, I can remember riding my bike by this one gas station that also sold diesel fuel. I remember that old, faded out, metal, swinging sign out by the road: 4 cents/gallon. Other than farmers with their tractors and the occasional 18-wheeler passing thru once in awhile, no one really had a use for it. Most everything was moved by railway trains back then....they used coal-fired steam engines when I was just a little fella, but later on, I can remember when they moved up to burning diesel. Both the steam and diesel engines were loud, but the old, coal-fired steam ones used to scare the living daylights out of me when I was a little kid with all that chugging, loud steam coming off them....they’d make me go run inside, with my hands over my ears to find my momma.....LOL