What TBN use to be like

[jerrybob]

man you guys are old! All of this talk about gas prices makes me feel young. I got my license/ permit in 2000, and gas was around $1.25. Funny how in 23 years it just barely doubled, but in the last 12 it has tripled!

Yep....we are old. That 30 cents gas went into my 58 chevy that I paid $150 for. Kids today pay more for their basketball shoes than I did for my first car. My parents paid $15,000 for the house I grew up in.....it was a pretty nice place. In the summer.....we swam in the park pool for a nickel. Mom would give us a dime so we could get a snow cone or A&W root beer on the way home with the other nickel. My brother and I used to roam the neighborhood with our push mower and broom and offer to cut people's grass for half a buck. We use to collect pop bottles, return them to the store and collect a penny for each bottle. OMG...just figured out.....we started the re-cycling thing!:laughing:

 

[/pine]

I started driving with a permit in 1976. I remember paying under .50. I think maybe .48 or .49. When I got my license in 77 my buddies and I would fight over paying .50 vs .55. I've told that story several times here.... 4 guys fighting over fifty cents difference in 10 gallons, or, 12.5 cents each person! :laughing:

And you didn't even have to get out of your car/truck to pump the gas...and you got your oil checked and the windshield cleaned while you waited...!

 

[Western]

I started driving with a permit in 1976. I remember paying under .50. I think maybe .48 or .49. When I got my license in 77 my buddies and I would fight over paying .50 vs .55. I've told that story several times here.... 4 guys fighting over fifty cents difference in 10 gallons, or, 12.5 cents each person! :laughing:

About the same year for me too MOSS, what you said brings back a "bad" memory too. "once" I balked at the "high gas prices" of the late 70's with my 1st car, so I siphoned some out of my dads car.......Never did that again, price ended up being way to high:ashamed:

 

[Thomas]

Back in late 60's-early 70's gas station offer drinking glass sets also silverware sets even gold bond stamps so much on each fill up.

 

[Soundguy]

Yep....we are old. That 30 cents gas went into my 58 chevy that I paid $150 for. Kids today pay more for their basketball shoes than I did for my first car. My parents paid $15,000 for the house I grew up in.....it was a pretty nice place. In the summer.....we swam in the park pool for a nickel. Mom would give us a dime so we could get a snow cone or A&W root beer on the way home with the other nickel. My brother and I used to roam the neighborhood with our push mower and broom and offer to cut people's grass for half a buck. We use to collect pop bottles, return them to the store and collect a penny for each bottle. OMG...just figured out.....we started the re-cycling thing!:laughing:

my first house cost less than a decent truck does today.. and I'm not talking about a luxory 1 ton either..

When I started working.. I'm trying to remember wages.. seems like it was in the $/hr 2.xx or 3.xx range..

 

[Soundguy]

Back in late 60's-early 70's gas station offer drinking glass sets also silverware sets even gold bond stamps so much on each fill up.

remember when you got dish cloths, silverwhere or plates in a box of laundry powder.

s&h green stamps and the like?

flour cam in a cloth sack.. I used to have a pillow that was made from a flour sack stuffed with felt batting and sewn up.. it was my pillow I actually slept on.. not a decorative thing..

 

[jerrybob]

my first house cost less than a decent truck does today.. and I'm not talking about a luxory 1 ton either..

When I started working.. I'm trying to remember wages.. seems like it was in the $/hr 2.xx or 3.xx range..

My first job was at McDonalds for $1.35 per hr.....I was 13 yrs. old. Only worked there for a week...when my brother got me a stock boy job at a store he was working at.......I left for a BIG raise.....got $1.45 per hr....man I was in the money!!:thumbsup:

 

[dave1949]

Back in late 60's-early 70's gas station offer drinking glass sets also silverware sets even gold bond stamps so much on each fill up.

Whoa! You flashed me back so hard, I still can't see. :laughing:

We used a set of gas station dinnerware from when we were married in 1971 to 1985. It even had a gravy boat. My MIL collected them for us. I remember handing out stamps when I worked in the grocery store in the late 60's.

 

[JDgreen227]

Boy this thread sure has gotten off topic...so I don't feel bad about adding my viewpoint to this: My first job was pumping gas at a Shell station (full service) for $1.25 an hour in about 1967 and gas was about 29.9 per gallon then. When I got a job a year later at a grocery store it was for $1.75 an hour which was a huge increase, and then in 1970 I hired into the PO at $3.06 an hour to sort mail....I thought WOW I am on easy street now...:laughing: Yes both the gas station I worked at and the grocery store gave out gift stamps (Gold Bell) and I knew some guys who were fired for stealing those.

 

[Lou66]

A person can never have to many friends.. unless they don't bring your tools back.. wait that wouldn't be a friend that would be one of your kids.. Lou