PJSprog said, "I sure do miss full service stations, SC. If there are any left in the St. Louis area, I do not know where they are. Haven't seen one since the mid-'80s, when there was one left in my hometown, Len's Amoco on Pontoon Rd in Granite City IL. His gas prices were a penny or two higher than the other places that had gone self-serve, but he never wanted for business. He was also the last gas/service station in town, and even he eventually closed the service side."
Yep, the world is changing. Of course I worked in my Dad's full service station when I was 16 to 19 years old. We pumped the gas, washed windshields (and the other windows), checked the oil and radiator, washed cars, fixed flats, and did lots of oil and filter changes, grease jobs, and minor mechanical work (fan belts, radiator hoses, and brake jobs). And perhaps the reason I remember the last such place to close in Dallas is because the owner was also one of the contract wrecker services for the city and part of my job, as a police captain at the time, was supervising the contract wrecker companies. I don't remember the exact date the last one in Dallas closed, but it was sometime around the mid-80s.
