Oh, the good old days........

[BigPapa]

1977. Recognize the movie?



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[07 ThunderRoad]

Smokey and the Bandit. I love that documentary. It's about living in the south during the mid 1970's. What an adventurous, fun loving place to be. Too bad all those yankees from up north had to move down there.

 

[The patriot]

I actually BOUGHT gasoline for . 59. 9 and I'm only 48 yrs old.

 

[BigPapa]

Myself. I'll be 50 in December.

 

[Blu-meanie]

I bought gas for . 18 to . 25, all 100 plus octane. I am not 48 years old.

 

[mwilson]

I bought gas for . 18 to . 25, all 100 plus octane. I am not 48 years old.

That's for sure if you purchased any gas for that kind of money. .



Mike.

 

[Mikey-KE7LBB]

We probably were still using silver coins at the time... $32. 38 an ounce now...

Just try to buy a REAL dollar and see how it compares to gasoline prices today and then you will understand inflation!!

My dad worked for $. 50 an hour and could go to the movies and buy popcorn and a drink for a quarter!!

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$25 paper buys you $1's worth of 90% silver coins today and there's still time left to bid on it!! So sad!!

 

[GHarman]

19 cents a gallon for Diesel at the time! 26 cents a gallon for 100 Octane gasoline for my '69 Camaro Oo. and I'll be 64 REAL SOON:-laf! GregH

 

[The patriot]

Dad payed . 12 a gallon. Yup. 8+ gals for $1. 00.

He's 78.

 

[The patriot]

Myself. I'll be 50 in December.

I'm in December too. 18th.

 

[RobertHiltz]

Sold gas during a price war for 15. 9, normal price was 22. 9 at the time. Number 2 fuel was . 13 delivered (no tax).

 

[PBJ2500CTD]

Pumped a lot of Gulf No-Nox at 21. 9 cents/gallon during the gas wars in the 60's... 19. 9 cents for regular. That's when $5. 00 would get you a full tank of gas and a half-rack of delicious nectars of the gods and maybe a regular burger, too. Of course that was about three hours of wages.

 

[BigPapa]

When I was a kid, let's say it was 1967, my grandad owned an appliance shop that had a gas station next door and one across the street. He'd send me to the one next door to get him a pack of Lucky Strikes for . 25 and gas was . 25, too.



In '79, I was paying @ . 85/gal for gas and . 95 for a pack of Winston Lights.



Here it is 2012 and we're paying @ $4. 00/gal for gas and @ $4. 00 a pack.



I ran into an old timer the other day buying fuel and he told me he owned an excavation company back in the '60's. He was building boat ramps out in the middle of the woods for the Corp of Engineers before they flooded Percy Priest lake. He said he had salesmen hunting him down out in the woods BEGGING him to buy diesel for less than . 10/gal.

 

[rscurtis]

If you lived in NY your smokes would be $10. 00 per pack. Over half of that is taxes.

 

[BoeingDiesel]

I worked part time at a Whitefront in my last year (66-67) of high school in Fountain Valley Ca. As I recall, fuel was about $. 19 - $. 22 cents per gallon. Customers weren’t allowed to pump their own fuel and we washed the windows, checked the oil, water and tires. Occasionally, I’d get a $. 50 tip. As I recall tho’, I did love it when the girls from my high school in Huntington Beach would come in for fuel…they had the cleanest windows in town. ... Yes, those were the 'Good Ol' days.

 

[Blu-meanie]

I washed a few windshields back then too. Mini-skirts got the best cleaning. You could pump your own gas, but it was hard to beat the kids to the pump.

 

[Mikey-KE7LBB]

I washed a few windshields back then too. Mini-skirts got the best cleaning. You could pump your own gas, but it was hard to beat the kids to the pump.

Kinda reminds me of listening to the Rodney Carrington clip about the wheelbarrow sign :-laf

 

[WesJohnston]

Gas was ten cents per gallon in 1963-'66 as I remember sitting in the back seat of the first Jeep Wagoneer on the island. Of course that was at the PX gas station at Naval Air Station, Kodiak, AK. Don't recall what the price was in town 'cause Dad always filled up on base. Love watching "Coast Guard Alaska" because I can still pick out locations in the background where I played. (will be 58 in Dec. - pumped gas for . 27/gal in early '70's in SoCal)