Author Topic: remember back when... (Read 2625 times)

Antibubba · « **Reply #1 on:** July 04, 2007, 04:00:59 PM »

I'm old enough to remember 56 cents/gallon.

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #2 on:** July 04, 2007, 04:05:11 PM »

well heck i remember 29.9 back in 1970

but the 87.9 was from only November 1998

filling my same car is a 42 dollar affair these daze

The Rabbi · « **Reply #3 on:** July 04, 2007, 04:10:03 PM »

I can remember about 28 cents/gal. My father liked to go to Sunoco where he could fill up with 89 octane in his VW beetle.

lupinus · « **Reply #4 on:** July 04, 2007, 05:03:14 PM »

hell Im 21 and Iremember 99 cents a gallon very well.

Phyphor · « **Reply #5 on:** July 04, 2007, 05:10:12 PM »

Same here, I remember seeing my dad use a $20.00 to fill up...and sending me in for the change.

W/a 454 V8

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #6 on:** July 04, 2007, 05:44:40 PM »

I remember filling up for 19 cents a gallon, and gas stations having price wars.

Phyphor · « **Reply #7 on:** July 04, 2007, 06:19:46 PM »

Oh what the hell,

The 454 I referred to? In my Dad's Pontiac Firebird, 1969.

She'd do about 160 or so...... I've only been up to 157 MPH (I counted the dots between 150 and 160)

My mom made him sell that car, it scared the hell out of her.

He still misses "Old Blue. "

charby · « **Reply #8 on:** July 04, 2007, 11:13:17 PM »

I'm 33, I remember .79 gasoline in the late 80's and .85 gasoline in '97

-C

Manedwolf · « **Reply #9 on:** July 05, 2007, 04:17:17 AM »

There's a long-closed gas station in Nashua that still has its sign of REGULAR $1.09 up. It still causes brakelights from drivers. cheesy

And yes, when I was a little kid in the 80's, my parents' 1972 Mercury Marquis Brougham only took $10 to fill up, with change. If even that much.

JonnyB · « **Reply #10 on:** July 05, 2007, 04:52:11 AM »

Summer of 1970 in rural Minnesota; I worked at the Skelly station. They had their cheap grade - Skeltane - for 24.9 a gallon. Five bucks for a major fill-up!

Regular was a penny more.

jb

Nick1911 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 05, 2007, 06:59:09 AM »

And just think - in 30 more years or so (when money is worth far less), we will think back to when gas was only 3 bucks a gallon!

Tallpine · « **Reply #12 on:** July 05, 2007, 07:10:35 AM »

I remember when I said that if gas got to fifty cents a gallon that I would quit driving rolleyes

Brad Johnson · « **Reply #13 on:** July 05, 2007, 10:06:52 AM »

I can remember Dad coming unglued at paying over 50 cents a gallon when forced to gas up somewhere in the mountains of Colorado. I can also remember 10 cent Cokes (in 8 ounce bottles) and 25 cent milkshakes.

Brad

Tallpine · « **Reply #14 on:** July 05, 2007, 11:02:50 AM »

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I can also remember 10 cent Cokes (in 8 ounce bottles) and 25 cent milkshakes.

And I can hear a Statler Brothers song playing in the background .... grin

Saturday morning serials chapters one through thirteen,
fly-paper, penny loafers, Lucky Strike Green ....

Brad Johnson · « **Reply #15 on:** July 05, 2007, 02:11:54 PM »

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Saturday morning serials chapters one through thirteen,
fly-paper, penny loafers, Lucky Strike Green ....

Flat tops, sock hops, Studebaker, Pepsi Please,
Ahh, do you remember these?

Harold, Phil, Don, and Lew. Had it on 8-track and vinyl. Even got to see them a couple times in Wichita Falls.

Jimmy Fortune did a good job at tenor after Lew had voice problems, but he just didn't have that little extra to his voice like Lew did. Heck of a songwriter, though. I hear they officially retired from music a couple years ago.

Brad

cassandra and sara's daddy · « **Reply #16 on:** July 05, 2007, 05:14:15 PM »

.17 a gallon my job was archivist my scientist dad has every gallon of as hes ever bought recorded along with mileage date etc. i was in charge of writing it down when i was with him.

.17 was in 63-65 if i remember right

S. Williamson · « **Reply #17 on:** July 06, 2007, 11:50:33 PM »

$.53 in Albany, Georgia in 1998. sad

Chuck Dye · « **Reply #18 on:** July 07, 2007, 06:11:03 AM »

For most of my life, the federal minimum wage has worked out as 3Â½ to 4Â½ gallons of regular. Looking at today's fuel prices and wages makes me wonder...

Manedwolf · « **Reply #19 on:** July 07, 2007, 07:19:04 AM »

Quote from: Huck Phinn on July 07, 2007, 05:11:03 AM

For most of my life, the federal minimum wage has worked out as 3Â½ to 4Â½ gallons of regular. Looking at today's fuel prices and wages makes me wonder...

I don't care about the minimum wage. People can easily educate and work harder to get over that.

The problem I see is that real wages for skilled professions haven't kept up with costs. The sort of career that paid $50-$60k in the late 90's still pays...$50-$60k, but costs of living have risen far faster.

Chuck Dye · « **Reply #20 on:** July 07, 2007, 07:41:17 AM »

Quote from: Manedwolf on July 07, 2007, 06:19:04 AM

...still pays...$50-$60k,

I guess those skilled pros will have to educate themselves, work harder, and get over that.

The marketplace is a harsh mistress.

Thor · « **Reply #21 on:** July 07, 2007, 08:41:25 AM »

Hell, I remember gas wars back in the early 60s where my mom and grandma would drive around town looking for the cheapest price. the gas wars brought gas down between 4 and 6 CENTS per Gallon. That was Denison, Tx. I was but a little tyke then, though. Mostly I recall 19.9 cents/ gallon (late60s/early70s) and being able to hop on my bike and go get gas for the mower. Hell, a person under sixteen ain't even supposed to pump gas nowadays.

grislyatoms · « **Reply #22 on:** July 07, 2007, 10:14:23 AM »

When Grandad used to fill up his boat in the 70's it would run $225 - $250

In the 80's it was $250-$300

Nowadays, he wouldn't have been able to fill it up for much less than a grand.

armchair warrior · « **Reply #23 on:** July 08, 2007, 07:31:14 PM »

I remember those prices AND they pumped it for you.
Anybody else notice that there are less gas stations,
but we pay more?And we pump it ourselves?
Out here(Kali)the greenies got rid of those evil underground
storage tanks with the blessings of the Big Oil(what is there 1
big company now?)to cut down on competition.

News:

Author Topic: remember back when... (Read 2625 times)

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