Saturday, November 05, 2011

The Good Old Days

DVR'd  "The Rockford Files" on a lark.  Always enjoyed Garner's work in that series.  Not mentally strenuous, either.

So there we are (wife joined to watch), good ol' Jim pulls into a gas station.  First thing you notice is that as he's driving in, he hits vacuum hoses and a bell rings.

Next thing you notice is that a kid sticks his head into the window and asks "Whaddya like?"

Rockford says "$3.00 worth of regular, please."

At that point, wife falls off the chair in a paroxysm of nostalgia.

For you young'uns:  $3.00 worth of regular--in THOSE days--bought about 11 gallons of gasoline.

In the dark ages, I worked in a gas station.  Kids would come in all the time and get $3.00 worth for a whole night of driving around fun.  $2.00 if they were pressed for cash--and the girls?  THEY would order ONE dollar's worth.  The girls never had any money.

We didn't wash the windows for $1.00's worth--unless the girls were wearing short skirts.

4 comments:

Jim said...

I had a Honda 55 trail bike. My first motor vehicle. It had a .7 gallon gas tank, and the lowest I remember paying was 19 cents a gallon. Fill 'er up for 13 cents.

Anonymous said...

That's back when a CEO was pulling down 4-5x what the average employee of his company earned. Yeah, good ole days...

Saint Revolution said...

"$200.00 a day plus expenses",
Rocky,
Angel,
and the ever-complaining Detective Dennis.

...and, of course, between 11 and 16 years old, always looking over my shoulder for cops when riding my Honda 70 mini=bike on the streets...

'Course, back then, cops were nicer and actually were paid ONLY what the job was worth...

...a six figure salary to a cop back then was something his lawyer father-in-law earned...

Now......whatever...

Sorry to spoil the moment with a hit of revolutionary reality...

GOR said...

"Gas will never go over 50 cents a gallon, nor cigarettes over 50 cents a pack..."

That was what we thought back around 1973...!