Do you remember these??

[Rob Glasgow]

While going through some old keepsakes, I came across these two items from 50 years ago. Do you remember them?

 

[CaptRandy]

Remember them well Atlantic Richfield. $3.00 for 7.93gals. 30 cents a gallon. Even got your license palte. The licenses came in the mail, used to collect them but that was 60 yrs ago.

 

[Rob Glasgow]

The license plate went on your key chain and the Disabled Veterans would guarantee return postage to you if anyone found them and dropped them in the mailbox. Motel keys used to be handled that way. I always wondered if there was a special department in the Post Office that handled those returns.

 

[John Turney]

I remember the first one, but I never got the license plate tag.

 

[65_BRG_Sprite]

Yepper! Loved the plates as a kid; have one or two in a treaures box. Someday the brat will open that box and say what junk!

 

[roscoe]

Thanks. Those are right up there with Green Stamps and jars of jelly that we got at the local pumps. The jelly jars ended up as glasses in the kitchen and the books full of stamps clogged the counter drawer until they got exchanged for some do-dad in the catalog. I do recall that my mother always asked Harrold ( it was his gas station) to check the oil AND the "water" in the battery, which he did each visit. When he handed us the receipt if I was close enough to an opened window he'd reach in and poke me and laugh " I got'cha". Today the police would probably be summoned if that happened, followed by much unpleasantness.

 

[nevets]

I have less than warm memories of those gas pump credit card receipts. Back in the day I had a part time job at a very busy ESSO station in NJ, working the 10pm to 2am Friday night shift in bitter cold January. With cars lined up at the pumps, my fingers would get so numb writing up those credit card receipts, I couldn't hold onto a pen, much less write with it. We would always clean the windshields and headlights, and offer to check the oil. Folks paying cash would often tip us for the good service.

 

[Madflyer]

In the 1960's in collage in California I also worked nights 5:00 PM to midnight five nights over weekend. Green stamps Shell coins split rim wheels all part of the job. I had many good customers but I do not think I ever got a tip. At a Standard station nights and gas was $.35 gal I said mark my words ONE DAY IT WILL BE $.50 a gal. Many cons came in; Quick change guys, Radios out of the trunk of their car. A watch for gas. and of course the guy with the 45 auto that held me up. When you think of the good old times and the days gone by the one that still sticks with me was my 1962 TR 4 and later TR 250. Madflyer

 

[Rob Glasgow]

Madflyer, I had to laugh when you mentioned a Standard Service station. I was standing in front of the local Lu Hail's Standard station in the little (800 pop.) farming community I grew up in, when I saw my first Austin Healey 3000. It was driven by a beautiful blond. I told my 14 year old buddy, "I am going to get one of those someday"....He responded "Which one , the car or the girl?" I said, "If I get the car, I think I can get the girl." Three years later, I had the car (still have it) and I met the girl. (Still have her too.) Ah, the prophecies of a 14 year old....

 

[John Turney]