Are you this old?

CalG · Dec 31, 2021

$1.10 an hour, evening custodian at the Target . Overtime after 40. and I could work all I wanted.

Burned a lot of cardboard on Sunday evenings ;-)

Jstpssng · Dec 31, 2021

CalG said:
gas was 19.9 cents a gallon. and motor oil could be bought at the service stations from the racks of glass bottles with the spouts on. (The service station guy ALWAYS asked to check your oil!)

I pumped gas for a while after HS. My boss was always after me to check oil and to add a quart even if they didn't need it. It didn't take me long to realize that I needed to go back to school... and that was BEFORE I got into it with my boss one Saturday, for refusing to put a gas on a customer's employer's account for his personal car and his boat. (My boss was was right though... it really was none of my business.)

BravoXray · Jan 1, 2022

ljjhouser said:
I remember WLS - 710 am radio - DJ Don Armstrong. Clear down to Joplin Missouri - came in every evening loud and clear. Loved that station as a kid.

WLS was at 890 on the AM dial, and I don't remember a Don Armstrong on it?

k0ua · Jan 1, 2022

ljjhouser said:
I remember WLS - 710 am radio - DJ Don Armstrong. Clear down to Joplin Missouri - came in every evening loud and clear. Loved that station as a kid.

That was WHB. The jingle was WHB dial 71....

WLS was on 890 Khz. Their jingle was 89, W L S...

k0ua · Jan 1, 2022

orezok said:
When I was in college in El Paso in the 60’s, we would pick up a radio station from Del Rio Texas that played the best music but their programming could be all over the place. In reality their transmitter was in Mexico and who know how many watts they broadcast.

But my best memory was their ad for “ Genuine autographed pictures of Jesus Christ”. Hmmm…

250,000 watts.

XERF

Wolfman Jack worked as a disc jockey from 1964 to 1966 for the (then) 250,000 watt radio station XERF (1570 AM) in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, just across the river from Del Rio, Texas, which is among borders of Texas and Mexico.