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.
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.
ReplyDeleteThat's back when a CEO was pulling down 4-5x what the average employee of his company earned. Yeah, good ole days...
ReplyDelete"$200.00 a day plus expenses",
ReplyDeleteRocky,
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...
"Gas will never go over 50 cents a gallon, nor cigarettes over 50 cents a pack..."
ReplyDeleteThat was what we thought back around 1973...!