Originally Posted by VALKRYDERGUY
My memory of gas prices goes back to about 1970 I suspect.
I would get gas for my go-cart at the Clark gas station and it was 40 cents a gallon.
I was 8 years old.
My dad owned this Sunoco back in 1959 in Villa Park,Illinois
SEE THE FREE GIFTS SIGN! When ios the last time you saw one of those at a gas pump. Or an attendant. Only New Jersey has attendants.(required by law) and they have them at all three stations still in business in the state.
In 1964 Gas at the Clark station in Dellwood MO was $ 0.12 per gallon to $0.18 depending on whether or not a "gas war" was going on.
When Cathy and I moved to Chicago in 1970 Gas was $0.38 to $ 0.42 per gallon. We wondered how Chicagoans dealt with that.
Later, when it jumped to $ 0.56 per gallon we were told by then President Carter that the life style we knew was soon to be over. Gas lines, allocations, and severe shortages made cross country travel a bit of an adventure.
Keep in mind, back then our cars got 8 to 12 MPG unless you drove a Volkswagon and got 15 to 18 MPG. My wife's Olds Delta 88 got 6 MPG while my Starfire could eek out 15.
Yeah, those were the days.
roadster with a stick