Who Remembers Pumping Gas?

[MrsGungho]

I remember filling our bike tires up at the gas station with the FREE air.

what's free air?

can't get that anywhere anymore

I still see a car now and then filling behind the license plate. memories

 

[wabash]

a local citgo has free air. I give them some business because of it.

 

[MrHank]

I had a 1977 Buick Skylark, I remember behind the license plate.

 

[chezuki]

I remember this.

(Drove a 95 Jeep Wrangler up until a couple years ago).

 

[hoosierdoc]

I had a 1977 Buick Skylark, I remember behind the license plate.

Was it a metallic mint-green convertible?

 

[shibumiseeker]

Those gas prices look pretty good too

Not really. In the late 1970s those were extremely high gas prices compared to the early 70s, and moreover adjusted for inflation would be about four to four and a half bucks today...

I paid $1.55 for gas on my way back from the Grand Canyon last week and that is ALMOST the lowest amount I've paid for gas (adjusted for inflation) since I started driving in 1984, and way less than the average gas price I've paid over my life.

Closest I've ever had to behind the plate was my Jeep CJ5 though many of the cars the adults around me had when I was a kid had behind the plate fillers.

 

[femurphy77]

Whose remembers pumping gas behind the license plate?



Those gas prices look pretty good too

I actually did it this weekend but I'm sure it didn't look near as good as this one!

 

[hoosierdoc]

Is that 13 cents a gallon for regular unleaded?

 

[Arm America]

Is that 13 cents a gallon for regular unleaded?

Negitive, It's $1.30 for regular fuel that included lead to prevent valve damage. The unleaded is the other pumps.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Hrm, do we know this is in USA? It could be pence or something else. Seems very high for back in the day.

 

[RustyHornet]

Hrm, do we know this is in USA? It could be pence or something else. Seems very high for back in the day.

Dodge Charger, possibly ford station wagon and what looks like either an IH scout or bronco. Most likely USA, could be Mexico or Canada though. Although I can read Regular, Unleaded and Premium.

 

[churchmouse]

When a teenager it was always easy enough to find a job pumping gas at a local......wait for it.......Service Station. usually a dollar an hour to pump gas, clean the screens and check the oil. Sweeping the bays and the lot when trffic was down. Oil changes as well. Good times.
4 pumps, 2 bays was the common at the time. Inside if 4 blocks there were 6 stations of different brands and everyone would work on your car. Then there was Imperial and United. Those have Morphed into the Speedway gas and goes we see now.

I remember the gas wars that had leaded (no un-leaded then) premium at 26 cents a gallon.

Man how times have changed.

 

[Hardscrable]

Kids! Gas wars. .19 cents a gallon and .23 cents a lot of the time.

Yes, plus the attendant checked your oil, cleaned your windshield, and they had "give aways" - I bought at a Texaco station and while still living at parents home supplied my Mom with a complete set of kitchen glasses ( beverage ).

Also had owner/attendant at a local Shell station (well known to drink at work & always have a gun on him & others stashed within arms reach ) pull a derringer out of his pocket while pumping my gas and start waiving it in my face, cussing about the "damn kids these days" ( in the 60's). Oh, also had a cigarette ( yes it was lit as was he ) dangling from his mouth the whole time. First time had a gun pointed at me and scared me s***less.

 

[bigelowe]

I remember green stamps and all the promotional goodies service stations would give away, everytime you got gas. I also remember the car inspections that were required each year, to make sure you car was safe to drive. Brakes, tail lights, headlights and other things would get inspected, safety inspections.

 

[Dirtebiker]

Is that 13 cents a gallon for regular unleaded?

That's regular, NOT unleaded!

 

[hoosierdoc]

That's regular, NOT unleaded!

No wonder the earth was so dirty during my childhood

 

[Gluemanz28]

There was a gas station in Ft. Branch, IN where I used to live that had a Short Person employee. He was a great mechanic as well since he could just crawl in the engine compartment under the hood and get right to the issue. Well believe it or not his name was shorty.

Shorty had a five gallon bucket that sat right on the inside of the bay door and when someone pulled up to the pumps and ran over the hose that sent air to the bell that would ding alerting them that someone need help at the pump, he would snatch up the bucket on the way out the door to stand on while the tank was filling so he could reach the windows to clean them.

A customer pulled up to the pumps, the bell dings and Shorty is off to the races. He grabs the handle on the bucket in full stride, but didn't know somebody had filled the bucket with water. The bucket weighed 1/2 of what Shorty did and and with the unexpected weight Shorty's feet were way ahead of the bucket and he ended up flat on his back and the bucket tipped to pour all over him. He was so mad I think he could have whipped a Grizzly Bear.

Nobody ever confessed to who filled the bucket.

 

[Brandon]

1984 Oldsmobile Delta 88, my first car's filler was behind the plate. Miss that big ol brown land yacht.

 

[1DOWN4UP]

Before it was called Unleaded fuel,it was called white gas.Dad used it in the old Colman lanterns.Had a Sinclair station who sold 100 octane Ethel.Dad had a 3 duce Pontiac which was picky

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Before it was called Unleaded fuel,it was called white gas.Dad used it in the old Colman lanterns.Had a Sinclair station who sold 100 octane Ethel.Dad had a 3 duce Pontiac which was picky

Was Sinclair the one that gave out those green plastic dinosaurs?