Anybody Remember Back When?

[Streetcar]

I was a smoker back in the day. Unfiltered Camels. I quit in 67 or 68. The cigarette companies had just gone too far - in my judgement. The price of cigs in the vending machines went from 50 cents to 55 cents per pack. Buy a carton today - almost need a 2nd on your house.

With this nerve damage/pain in my left shoulder - I've taken back up the nasty habit of chewing. Cope Long Cut - $8.50 per can. I swear - I'm gonna make good on my threat and - start chewing "organic cow pies". There are hundreds - just waiting - out in the pasture. If I decide that I gotta continue chewing - ick - I can get chew at the indian tobacco stores, on one of their reservations. Its half price or less at those stores. No federal, state or local taxes.

Talk about STUPID. Local owner of a convenience store/gas station - going to make some extra $$$$. Bought tobacco products at one of the tobacco stores on a local indian reservation. Things went great for a short while. Then the two fellows in black trench coats show up. I don't think he had to spend time in jail - just huge fine. Made a big splash story in the local news paper. Same paper where his big ad ran for special reduced price for tobacco products. And they are allowed to range free and breed in our society.

Oosik
Use the tractor and grow your own tobacco.
Watching chewing tobacco is worse than watching sausage being made

 

[Tractor Seabee]

1956 traveling through Texas bought casing gas for $.09. Ran a little rough, and pinged a lot in my 46 Mercury.

Ron

 

[fishheadbob]

[QUOTE=oosik;

I deeply treasure my 1903 original signed edition of Jack London's - Call of the Wild.

I am jealous of your book. "Sleep means death in the Yukon."

The property across the street still has remnants of a stand of red pine planted by the CCC in the 30's.; the owner was a state senator and had a lot of juice back then. The pine has pretty much died out and is shadowed out by some very impressive black cherry. I-90 was built in the 1950s and takes a little jog around his property so as not to divide it, powerful dude apparently.

When we bought this place in 1979 there was still an outhouse. They did have 5 water wells but none were any good so in the dryness of summer it was the outhouse over flushing, and the occasional walk to the creek for a Saturday night bath.
I used to use a 1940s International M with a pony motor for haymaking. Piece of cake to start it in hay season.

My first batch of heating oil was 19.9, and I know I bought gas that cheap in the early 60s once or twice. The local reservation sells regular for $169.9 right now, it's about a buck higher off the Rez.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

1956 traveling through Texas bought casing gas for $.09. Ran a little rough, and pinged a lot in my 46 Mercury.

Ron

Is that the same as "drip" gas; i.e. condensate from the natural gas lines? I remember Dad saying he used to collect it and burn it in his old Star automobile. There was a gas line running through Grand Dad's property, but it was all under ground. Wonder where he got it?

 

[ovrszd]

It was also so the customer could see and verify that he was getting what he was paying for. Apparently, there was some paranoia going around those days.

Yep, that was the primary reason as I was told by a station owner in the 50s.

 

[ovrszd]

1956 traveling through Texas bought casing gas for $.09. Ran a little rough, and pinged a lot in my 46 Mercury.

Ron

Aunt and uncle lived in rural Oklahoma. He burned that stuff in his old Ford pickup.

I bought ethyl gas in the Summer of 69 for .19 cents a gallon down there.

 

[LouNY]

Originally Posted by 2LaneCruzer

It was also so the customer could see and verify that he was getting what he was paying for. Apparently, there was some paranoia going around those days

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Yep, that was the primary reason as I was told by a station owner in the 50s.

I would not call it paranoid, how else would they have metered it.
The totalizing flow meter was not in existence, the glass jug with gallon markings made an easily visible and verifiable method of purchasing a liquid commodity. A simple hand pump to fill the measuring jug and simple gravity feed to the purchaser. Easy, simple, and reliable.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Yep...in a glass container with the graduations clearly marked.

 

[turnkey4099]

Originally Posted by 2LaneCruzer

It was also so the customer could see and verify that he was getting what he was paying for. Apparently, there was some paranoia going around those days

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I would not call it paranoid, how else would they have metered it.
The totalizing flow meter was not in existence, the glass jug with gallon markings made an easily visible and verifiable method of purchasing a liquid commodity. A simple hand pump to fill the measuring jug and simple gravity feed to the purchaser. Easy, simple, and reliable.

Yep,that was the primary purpose. It worked even in stations without electricity.

We farmed outside Craigmont, Idaho from 1939 to mid 50s. REA (rural Electric Authority - IIANM) didn't come through the country until about 1948 and th ere were stationst still using the handpump then.

 

[k0ua]

When I was in high school, in the mid '50's, gasoline was in the low 20's there in my small home town. lowest I ever saw it was about 18.5 during a gas war, in Fairview Oklahoma circa. 1955.

I saw a gas war in Aurora Mo. once in the early 60's it was 15 cents per gallon. I only saw that once. It usually run from a low of 17 cents to 19 cents. Occasionally went to 21 cents.