Since we’re on the good old days, when I was a kid in the 50’s I remember my day buying regular gas for 14.9 cents / gallon. “Service stations” filled you car with gas, washed the windshield, checked the oil and tires at no extra charge. Air was even free if your tires were low. Gas stations gave towels, drinking glasses and plated away with a fill up. Gas stations had gas wars when one station would drop the price below or at cost just to get customers in the door and hoping to drive the competition out of business. Service stations weren’t convenient stores, they serviced cars doing repairs and oil changes and grease jobs.

When I got my license in 1965 regular gas was normally 24.9 cents and in the early 70’s I bough gas often for 17.9. It cost $4 to fill my 1965 Plymouth I bought in 1970 for $250.

I believe it was in the 30’s that my grandfather bought his Sears & Robuck house for $800. My parents had a custom house built in 1958 and they paid $13,500. I bought a new International Scout in 1973 with the 345 engine for a whopping $8500. Tuition per quarter at the University of Tennessee when I started in 1967 was $136/Quarter plus books. When I graduated in 71 it was $168/quarter.

I just finished a brick of spp I bought about 5 or 6 years ago for $24 and I’m into the $30/1000 now. I remember a couple years ago having a nose bleed paying $45/1000 for Federal Gold Medal LPP.

Times are changing folks!