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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Blast from the Past: Gas Prices


Blast from the Past: Cost of Gas

It’s official. I am a woman of a certain age. You know you are a person of a certain age when you start sentences with I remember when… 




When I first had my license, a couple years ago…ahem, a gallon of gas was less than a dollar. To be exact, it cost me $.62 per gallon of gas. Whenever I borrowed Dad’s car, I had to put gas in it…so off to the service station I would go to have $1.00 worth of gas (1.62 gallons) pumped into the car before picking up my friends to go to the drive-in for a double-feature.

Times, they sure have changed. That same dollar would get me just over ¼ of a gallon of gas…that is 1 quart…or 2 pints…or 4 cups. No matter how you phrase it, it isn’t much gas. I doubt it would get me to the nearest drive-in theater now.

How much did gas cost when you were a new driver?
 
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!

22 comments:

  1. I must be too old but I forget. I don't even remember filling up........but then someone else did that then. I remember alot but not that. I do remember when it was a whole lot cheaper. Wish those days were back.

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  2. I remember in the not so distant past that gas was 98 cents. It was pre 9/11, and now the gas goes up and the news says it is because of a storm in the gulf or some such other nonsense and the price never goes down after the storm.
    Sherry

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  3. Shameful how they jack up the prices and then don't drop them down again.
    It is the same gas coming out of their underground tanks at the gas station on Tuesday as was in there on Monday. How do you change the price on what you already have paid for?
    Criminal.
    And you are of a "great" age not just a certain age.

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  4. I clearly remember signs for 73¢ a gallon! Not only are gas prices crazy, there aren't even any drive-in movie theaters around here any more:@)

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  5. I don't remember how much the gas was per gallon, but when I was a young working girl, I used to put $2.00 in my tank and it got me to and from work for a week!

    XO,
    Jane

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  6. I think I'm a woman of the same age. I look at a can of tuna fish, for example, and marvel that it costs more than fifty-nine cents. I think I'm frozen in the 1970's.

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  7. That's if you could even find a Drive-in theater now....lol....I remember when...gas was 23 cents a gallon in Orlando, Florida in 1966.

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  8. I remember when my dad was getting it for $.25 a gallon AND they were giving away cases of Coke in the bottles along with the wooden crates! He would put those bottles out in the snow and bring them in just as they were turning to slush. We thought he was magical.

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  9. I remember when I first started to drive and got my first car I paid 19 cents a gallon. Could fill my car up for around 2.00 and go and go and go on that tank of gas.

    My first husband and had a trucking business. We sold out semi just before diesel fuel hit $1.00 a gallon as we knew we could not afford the payments and insurance on the truck if it hit 1,00 for diesel to fill the truck. Not with 2 100 gallon tanks that needed filled each day.

    Karan

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  10. well, I'm of a certain age when I can't remember details like that!! But even if I could afford a gallon now there are no drive-ins anymore. This generation missed out on all the cool things we did as teenagers eh?

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  11. I remember, 75 cents a gallon. We would all put in a about a buck each and drive around town all night!

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  12. Wow, I can't remember. Wonder what this says about me.

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  13. I don't remember the price of gas when I began driving, but I do remember offering friends a dollar if they drove me somewhere...Happy Birthday - and your last post was fabulous. I remember eating at Windows on the World about 15 years ago...still an unbelievable thing to me!

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  14. I don't remember exactly...but, I do remember stopping for $1 worth of gas. I am also of "a certain age"! I remember hamburger being less than $1 a pound too:)

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  15. My how prices have jumped,I remember a coca cola was .25 and back then it was a special treat for us to get one.
    ~Jo

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  16. La, just wanted to thank you for the wonderful giveaway basket filled with goodies. The little polka-dot package with the Paula Deen things and gift tags was a nice added bonus. I love it all and have been having fun showing it off to everyone. I posted a pic on my blog today and added the link to your blog. I also got a chance to go back and look at some of your more recent posts and thank you for sharing the one of the 911 Memorial in Hillard. I showed it to my husband and when he gets better we think it would make a nice day trip. Hope all is well with you, thanks again, Susanne ♥

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  17. I remember 99 cents in '92.
    It is 4.00 now for reg.here in NY. Crazy!
    And thanks to your special first responders. Our dear friend was a fireman who never came out in 9/11. My dh is godfather to his dau.
    We will never forget.
    Another friend lost his young bride of 3 months. He just remarried after 10 years.

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  18. I didn't learn to drive until my son was born, in the late 70's. My husband always fills the gas tank for me as the smell of gasoline makes me a little nauseous.

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  19. Just paid 5.78 for a gallon.
    incredible.

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  20. I was just talking with my Mom this week about the good old days when when the service station pumped your gas for you. We decided if there was some place in town that did that we would go!

    Carol

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  21. omg...when I got my liscense gas and cigerettes were the same price...29 cents a gal....I ALWAYS would just say "a dollars worth please" lol, because they pumped it for you back then.

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  22. OOO, I have a post in draft of prices when I was young...amazing. :))

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