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Oct 24, 2017 12:40:33   #
badbobby Loc: texas
 
when I first started driving
who would have thought gas would cost 20 cents a gallon?



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Oct 24, 2017 12:54:33   #
bahmer
 
badbobby wrote:
when I first started driving
who would have thought gas would cost 20 cents a gallon?


My first job was in a gas station and the gas was $.25 a gallon then.

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Oct 24, 2017 13:00:30   #
John Illinois
 
I recall seeing gas at 20 cents a gallon on the way to school--then on the way home it had jumped up to 30 cents. Imagine today if gas went from $2 to $3 over the course of a day. Actually, a factor of 10 is on the low side of what the politicians have done to the value of our money in those years.

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Oct 24, 2017 13:29:38   #
bmac32 Loc: West Florida
 
First gallon I bought was 19 cents while everyone else in town was 20. Ralph had his own truck to haul it and he'd make 5 trips a week. Off that he put two kids through collage and had a new car every other year. I asked him years later what that 20 cent gas was costing him he thought a minute and said 11 cents.



John Illinois wrote:
I recall seeing gas at 20 cents a gallon on the way to school--then on the way home it had jumped up to 30 cents. Imagine today if gas went from $2 to $3 over the course of a day. Actually, a factor of 10 is on the low side of what the politicians have done to the value of our money in those years.

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Oct 24, 2017 13:45:54   #
pafret Loc: Northeast
 
bahmer wrote:
My first job was in a gas station and the gas was $.25 a gallon then.


Twenty one and nine tenths to twenty three and nine tenths in 1950 Northeast Pennsylvania. We used to have "gas wars" with stations dropping the prices down as low as fifteen cents a gallon. One station owner, determined to end the wars dropped his price to seven cents a gallon.

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Oct 24, 2017 14:00:32   #
F.D.R.
 
The year was 1959 when I purchased my first car, a '56 Mercury Phaeton 4dr hardtop for $850. I treated her to fresh oil changes every two weeks and only used Esso extra gas at 31 cents per gallon and remember my outrage when I pulled in one day and found the price had 'jumped' to 33 cents. And along with that 'outrageous' price we got our windows cleaned, oil and tire pressure checked as well as a quick once over under the hood. Isn't it funny how with all of the so-called 'progress' we've experienced we now pay more for less.

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Oct 25, 2017 04:55:49   #
out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State
 
I'm a bit younger, started driving in the late 8os. Even then I could pull into the station, with $2.00 scrounged from the couch cushions and be good for a couple of days. And yes they still cleaned your windshield, checked your oil, pumped your gas. How I hate pumping gas. I had an old 72 Dodge Dart that served in a prior life as a Rent a Wreck. At the time I was mortified, boy I wish I had that car now.

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Oct 25, 2017 06:17:51   #
jSmitty45 Loc: Fl born, lived in Texas 30 yrs, now Louisiana
 
We lived in Tampa in 62 when I took drivers ed in school. Gas wars going on all over. Gas was usually around 26 to 29 cents a gallon. Dad's job sent him down Hwy 27, down to Clewiston, Fl. Small town, not many gas wars, but it was still usually 29 to 30 cents a gallon. I would return coke bottles and milk jugs for gas money. Shows how bad it has gotten with these high prices now. I had a50 Studebaker dad bought off someone for about $150.00. Flathead 6 cylinder with the gears on the column. It must have been in demolition derby or something, as both doors were caved In. You had to tie a rope around the door post or you would fall out going around corners. I lost a lot of coke bottles and milk jugs that way. Ran like a charm, though. You go back after the bottles, and you have to chase other kids away as they wanted them too.

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Oct 25, 2017 06:43:49   #
PeterS
 
jSmitty45 wrote:
We lived in Tampa in 62 when I took drivers ed in school. Gas wars going on all over. Gas was usually around 26 to 29 cents a gallon. Dad's job sent him down Hwy 27, down to Clewiston, Fl. Small town, not many gas wars, but it was still usually 29 to 30 cents a gallon. I would return coke bottles and milk jugs for gas money. Shows how bad it has gotten with these high prices now. I had a50 Studebaker dad bought off someone for about $150.00. Flathead 6 cylinder with the gears on the column. It must have been in demolition derby or something, as both doors were caved In. You had to tie a rope around the door post or you would fall out going around corners. I lost a lot of coke bottles and milk jugs that way. Ran like a charm, though. You go back after the bottles, and you have to chase other kids away as they wanted them too.
We lived in Tampa in 62 when I took drivers ed in ... (show quote)

What we would give for a 50 Studebaker now...

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Oct 25, 2017 06:44:40   #
PeterS
 
badbobby wrote:
when I first started driving
who would have thought gas would cost 20 cents a gallon?

My first gallon of gas was .75 cents and it never got cheaper...

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Oct 25, 2017 06:46:34   #
jSmitty45 Loc: Fl born, lived in Texas 30 yrs, now Louisiana
 
PeterS, would love to have one again. They sure had a good engine.

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Oct 25, 2017 09:47:26   #
nailbender
 
Nail bender. My Dad worked at a refinary and gasoline cost us $ .09 a gal. that was for the State & Federal tax. that was in the 1952-54 area.

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Oct 25, 2017 09:58:17   #
pappadeux Loc: Phoenix AZ
 
badbobby wrote:
when I first started driving
who would have thought gas would cost 20 cents a gallon?



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Oct 25, 2017 13:43:51   #
fidelis
 
REMEMBER WHEN I worked at a Sinclair station, was a Conoco station across the street. REMEMBER in 56 we had gas wars, and stations would compete for business by selling gas cheaper? Well the station across the street started and we retaliated, it finally got down to him selling for 5¢ so my boss decided "free" gas. People came in and we would send them across the street to fill up and come back and we would reimburse them. The war soon ended. WE WON.

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Oct 25, 2017 13:53:03   #
pappadeux Loc: Phoenix AZ
 
fidelis wrote:
REMEMBER WHEN I worked at a Sinclair station, was a Conoco station across the street. REMEMBER in 56 we had gas wars, and stations would compete for business by selling gas cheaper? Well the station across the street started and we retaliated, it finally got down to him selling for 5¢ so my boss decided "free" gas. People came in and we would send them across the street to fill up and come back and we would reimburse them. The war soon ended. WE WON.
We just maybe should do as your boss did as we just might avoid a lot of heartaches

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