AND DON'T FORGET THE MOON PIES
Thanks JR. For you young guys, the ones who never knew America as a 2 lane road without interstate highways, JR's picture is what many Mom and Pop "SERVICE STATIONS" looked like out of the city limits.
A person walked out, asked how much gas you wanted, usually a bucks worth would get you 4 or 5 gallons. If you were on the road and close to empty ya got a 5 spot's worth. They asked if you wanted your oil or fluids checked and get this, they washed your windshield without being asked.
You could go in and get a loaf of bread and some lunch meat to fix for lunch as you drove. There would be candy, cigarettes and 5 cent seegars in a glass case. Free matches were always on the counter.
They could fix your tire under a lean too attached to the building and your pit stop was a small room inside or a unheated water closet outside or a two holer out back.
And if you had been good and your Dad had an extra quarter or fitty cent piece you might get a soda with a Moon Pie or peanuts. You got 8 ounces of Coke for 6 cents or 10 oz of Pepsi or 12 oz of RC. Now you see why RC was so cool for a kid, 50% more for your 6 cents or later a dime.
And I think I've shot a few marbles with JR in the dirt next to the building.
If you were broke and walked over you could scour the ditches for unbroken soda bottles and get 2 cents each for them. 5 Bottles was a big RC and if you were lucky you might find enough for the peanuts or Moon Pie.
How many of you long in the tooth pups picked up bottles for soda???
Thanks again JR, that picture brought back a flood of memories.
