Old Gas Price signs ... get out your hankies

[FATCAT]

Anyone remember the good old days: :{



Dixie Gas



How bout filling up at the old Shell Station



Maybe pull in to the old Flying J



Or for us New Englanders, how bout stoping by for a coffee and

a fill up atIrving



Or maybe your an Exxon fan



Or maybe your a Standard Oil man ... or a Union 76 person



This one will knock your socks off ... Shamrock



Go ahead are remoness at www.gassigns.org



Now go get another hanky.

 

[Rescue Ram]

Ah, nothing like memories.

Good post.

 

[biggieou]

None of those links worked for me

 

[bmoeller]

Got them to work for me.



Need to right click on the link. Go to the properties "button". Cut and paste the http addy in your browser. Will work then.



Just clicking on them didn't other-wise work for me either.

 

[HOBrian]

The "old Shell Station" makes me very sad :{ :{ I am pretty sure I was not even a thought in my parents eyes when those prices were around.

 

[EMD Diesel Power]

The "old Shell Station" makes me very sad :{ :{ I am pretty sure I was not even a thought in my parents eyes when those prices were around.

Ditto here... kinda hard to beleive that there was 1. 50 or lower per gal. prices not too long ago. (5-10yrs)

 

[DIESELMAN]

Ditto here... kinda hard to beleive that there was 1. 50 or lower per gal. prices not too long ago. (5-10yrs)

It was only $1. 49 in Feb 2004, 10 years ago it was only about $0. 95, I remember panic at $0. 65 a gallon.

 

[catoiler]

Thanks for the links Fatcat!I'm a old fuel station nut and have trying to find sites like this. Remember the old "gas wars". I can recall when the gas was . 19 cents a gal!Man I am gettin OLD!!

 

[FATCAT]

Thanks for the links Fatcat!I'm a old fuel station nut and have trying to find sites like this. Remember the old "gas wars". I can recall when the gas was . 19 cents a gal!Man I am gettin OLD!!

Glad to be of service. They are fun pictures. I was born in 1964 so the lowest I think I can remember was in the . 50's or so.



My grandfather told me stories when he filled up his Modle-T he'd give the guy a $1 and get change back!!!!

 

[GFrance]

I worked at a shell station when in high school when the prices were . 32 I could fill up my vw bug for about $2. 50 & run around at the beach all weekend. Boy I miss those days.

I was just a little kid ridding in the folks car when I saw those gas war signs for . 19

It worried me so I asked mom if we were going to get shot if we went in that station.

 

[J.BURCHFIELD]

Me too, in 1966 gas and #2 diesel was 19. 9 per gal and we complained. Tradesmen wage was $6. 35 per hour. Had we known how much better off we were then we would not have complained.

 

[Grey Wolf]

OK I'm really feeling old now, in the last ('70's) fuel crisis I was paying . 10 a gallon for number two in TJ, Mexico

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Just seeing if this works

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[Vaughn MacKenzie]

When you click on the links above click "refresh" in the window it popped up in. Here's a couple more . . .



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[EricBu12]

My dad owned a Drive through diary store and i remember seeing a sign on it at . 29 cents Regular LEADED!! no more of that... .



i remember on vacations dad was complaining about . 65 cents... that was about mid seventies... . Imagine the shock of the shortage and the cost almost double in short order... .

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

The cheapest I recall is around 50c (born in '67). There was a truck stop near our place that was 55 for gas and 45-50 for diesel for a long time. Then in the late '70s it shot up to 85c, then over a dollar around '80-'81.



I recall during one spike a station in Vantage Washington jacked their price to $2. 00, in 1981!



Vaughn