Thursday, January 01, 2009

From Ole Whitey #2


Buckles7, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Also here's a forty-five year old carbon from when I filled up a Beatty-Cole truck for $5.10. I haven't done that for a long time.

Whitey

Posted by Buckles at 1/01/2009 12:14:00 PM

4 comments:

B.E.Trumble said...

Laughing out loud. In 1976 when I was 18 I worked for a couple months for a garden seed company. It was autumn and I drove around rural Alabama and Mississippi and collected seed racks from the back rooms of hardware stores. I'd count the seed packs, subtract from what they been sent in February and the difference was in theory what they'd sold. I was paid $125 a week, which was pretty good. I had a $100 a week expense account for gas meals and motel. Generally that meant no motel that cost more than $12.50 a night, no more than $4.00 a day for food, and I was forever looking for gas under .35 cents a gallon. By 1976 people were complaining about the high cost of gas. My dad would grumble about how he used to find it for .11 cents during a gas war -- and everybody remembered taht it was only .19-.25 cents a few years before. A few years later when it was up to .65 everybody gave up on complaining. The battle was lost.

01 January, 2009 12:41
Anonymous said...

Ben,
I go back a little farther than you and I remember gas wars in Loves Park IL (Rockford area) when the gas would be 9.9 cents per gallon and they would be lined up for blocks. In high school, we would pitch in a quarter apiece and drive around all night and still have a lot of gas left.

The best story was from my neighbor in the early 70's. He car pooled with a guy and at night one of them would put a couple gallons in his car and he started to tell the guys how great his mileage was. I wish that someone would do that for me.
Bob Kitto

01 January, 2009 18:48
Anonymous said...

I hope that account number has long since been terminated.

From time to time I mention to "young folks" that when I was their age it was perfectly normal to pull into a station and ask for a buck's worth of gas.

By the way, today...1/02/09... a gallon of Exxon in my town, Glen Rock, NJ was going for $1.45.

Ain't life grand?

Paul G.

02 January, 2009 17:29
Anonymous said...

Paul,
In Wis, the cheapest gas I have found is still $1.59. I would drive to NJ, but it would cost too much. But it'still cheaper than $4.09, that we were paying.
Bob Kitto

02 January, 2009 19:25

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