"My first gallon of gas cost 25 cents."
I remember when my father would give the gas station attendant $5 to fill the tank on our Chevy Malibu ... and he would get change back.
I remember me and my buddies pooling our change and getting enough gas to drive around all weekend.
Steel some beers from our dads and we had a real party.
Wish we could have meet some girls. I guess that would have been better.
Long time ago!
I think my first time was 68 cents...but it was much better the second time.
Yeah, but that silver quarter you paid for it with is now worth close to three bucks :)
I can remember paying 14.9 for regular and 15.9 for premium (and a $1.04 for a carton of Marlboros). That was in 1970.
I'd settle for what it was when I bought my first gallon: somewhere around 85 cents.
We had a price war going on between the Phillips 66 and the Esso. It was 19cents a gallon.
I pumped gas in the Michigan winter at 58 cents. Full service. Me with wet hair after swim practice. Hair froze.
My friend, who got me the job, was a notorious scammer. He figured out that he could pry the glass frame off of one pump, and dial in, by hand, $1.00 on the rotating numbers.
Everytime somebody came in for a "Fillup," he would guide them to that pump, saying it was the only one working.
One fullup, one buck for him.
He told the rest of us about it, and we played with the pump. Trick was, you had to dial it in and then click the handle up and down, and resist the pressure of the wheels.
So he got greedy, and tried resetting it with several bucks on the pump, and it broke the mechanism.
800 gallons of gas later, we all got fired.
"Sir, the pump broke! How much do you think the tank took? I don't know what to do! My manager will be so mad if I let you go without paying!"
"Son, it probably took $8.00, and that's all I'll give you."
"Thank you sir!"