If you are my age you remember........

[DWalt]

>The last time gas was 18 cents a gallon (average price in the US) was 1940. That was 14 years before I was born<


Maybe at the name stations - phillips, texaco, standard. But there was a tide station about a half a mile from my house, and that's where Mama bought gas. When I was getting of the age to drive, so gasoline prices was something I needed to pay attention to - this would be the late '60s - gas was regularly around 15 cents. During gas wars I saw it as low as a dime. Don't ever remember seeing single digit gas, but I've seen it close.

During the early to mid 1960s I frequently drove through Chillicothe, Ohio. I always filled my gas tank there as there was a long-running gas price war. The price was always in the 15-20 cent range. Most everywhere else it was a nickel or dime higher. And I bought cigarettes in Kentucky for 20-25 cents per pack then.

 

[pharmer]

>The last time gas was 18 cents a gallon (average price in the US) was 1940. That was 14 years before I was born<

Maybe at the name stations - phillips, texaco, standard. But there was a tide station about a half a mile from my house, and that's where Mama bought gas.

We had "Hy-Grade" gas on river road in Garfield NJ. Prior to the 1st "Oil crisis" in '72-'73 lowest was $0.18.9/gal. Hitchhiking across the US in 1972 I saw $0.14.9/gal at a truck stop in Burley, Idaho.

That "crisis" doubled the price to $0.50 gal and the second in 1979 went from $0.50/gal to a dollar, where it stayed for quite awhile.

I have a pic from 1997 of my boy filling my S-10 with gas at $0.83.9 as oil went to $9/barrel during the "dot-com boom."

Like BillyBob "the Landman" said: "The sweet spot is between $70 and $90/ barrel." Lotsa folks trying to keep it there. Joe

 

[A10]

Mid 60's road trip with my parents, hit a small town in the midwest with a price war between two stations. IIRC Dad bought the cheap gas at .02 a gallon.

In the 70s in high school .25 cents was about average, sometimes into the teens. Then the "gas shortage" hit and the prices went up. Price fixing created lines, and made people think that pretty much any price was OK. After that we only saw a buck a gallon or so.

 

[Bald1]

All I remember about gas was in 1989 at the age of 20 I had an F250 and a boat with a 34 gal tank. That’s when gas hit $1 gallon in my area. I started to rethink my hobbies.

 

[Nevada Ed]

I enjoyed those times. running around in the back yard on the grass,
chasing and squirting my brother and sister with a squirt gun.

Life was fun back then and soon after I got my super duper X-mas gift ever..........
a Browning box camera run on 110 film, that took.
Fantastic pictures, even for a youngster !!

 

[Rustyt1953]

The beginning of the oil crisis:



The ending:

 

[Birdgun]

I knew dirt when it was still a young rock.

God bless,
Birdgun

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Oh Yeah, The surplus stores after WW2. Half the kids in school wore ex GI's Jackets and shoes then. I had a Navy Foul Weather coat that was a dandy. Finally wore it out about 20 years later. Good memories.

 

[erikpolcrack]

Price of gas in the mid-50s - I was there! I grew up in central PA - born in 1949. Most Saturdays my mom would take me along when she went from our small town (1700) to the "city" (15,000) six miles away. We would drive right by the only gas station in town enroute in both directions. I remember asking about the "point nine" way of displaying the per gallon gas price. There was only a single digit in front of the little 9 for the first few years at least. This is all burned into my memory because these trips cut into my bike-riding-tree-climbing time with my friends. It must have been a big city (or Europe!) where gas hadn't been been below 18 cents a gallon since 1940!

 

[Bill Bates]

I'm old enough to remember when the TV remote control was any kid in the room.

 

[jeffrefrig]

Post #26, picture #2, is proof that AMC made the ugliest cars in the world. Take your pick: Pacer or Gremlin.

 

[Mr. Vito]

I grew up in NYC where you had to be 18, not 16 to get a driver's license. So I started driving in 1961 and gas was about $0.22 a gallon. My Dad's 1957 Old's '88 got about 8 miles a gallon so I had to put in a couple of dollars worth pretty often. But boy I sure did love that car, which seemed super fast with its big V-8 engine and the bright red leather seats!