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11-03-2021, 12:45 PM
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11-04-2021, 07:35 PM
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Hey! I resemble that.
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11-05-2021, 08:49 AM
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Those days are gone and will be forever forgotten. So very sad our young people will never experience that forgotten common service.
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11-05-2021, 10:10 AM
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I wonder what the price of gas would be if they still did that service?
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11-05-2021, 10:56 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BC Pest
Those days are gone and will be forever forgotten. So very sad our young people will never experience that forgotten common service.
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Maybe that’s why service today is a joke.
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11-05-2021, 11:13 AM
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Newmar Owners Club
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In southern Wyoming my father owned two full service Sinclair stations with only two pump islands per station. My part time job during high school in the late 1970's was being the "Service Attendant" filling customer gas tanks, checking engine oil and tire pressure, washing windows with a "bug sponge" and then drying the windows "streak free" with a leather chamois. Long time customers would give me a $1 tip for my services! In the late 1970's gasoline price was 65 cents / gallon and the Coke machines at my father's stations the Coke came in glass bottles for 25 cents each.
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11-05-2021, 12:46 PM
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The kids of now, when they get old, will be telling stories to their grandkids about the days when buying groceries, a store person would scan them, and another person would bag them for you. No, wait, maybe it won't be that long in the future.
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Dragging four telescopes around the US in search of dark skies.
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11-05-2021, 01:49 PM
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Monaco Owners Club Solo Rvers Club Coastal Campers
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I had the pleasure of learning at my grandfathers knee. His comments decades ago were similar in young people not working or living as tough of a life as he did. His brother was killed shoeing a horse. I rode tractors, grandpa walked behind mules. My son has tractors with gps, power steering, cabs, air ride seats, and automatic climate control. All stuff I would have loved to had plowing in the spring rain. Heck, he doesn’t even need to plow anymore.
It’s called progress and we all should realize it’s been good. Very good. If not we all wouldn’t have the recreational equipment and the time to use it. My grandpa never did.
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11-05-2021, 02:11 PM
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My grandpa plowed with horses and loved his accomplishments including working to help others unfortunate during WWII for which he was sentenced to death but days before that happened the Dutch underground managed to rescue him and eighteen others and to the day he died he claimed he had a very good life and meant it. Today with all the new inventions we have I do not see many people that claim they have a good and satisfying life. I wish I good say like my grandpa I had a good life and I am 87, years older than he was at his death.
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11-05-2021, 02:30 PM
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I remember in 1972 filling my 12 gallon gas tank for $3. Gas was $.249 a gallon and the gas pump had a slot for taking $1 bills. Slip in a couple of bill for gas and then be on your way. The pumps were also open 24 hours.
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11-05-2021, 02:39 PM
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Absolutely "age related".
Driving a 1958 VW panel truck with a "hotrod 40 HP engine" (told you it is age related), there was a gas war in College Station, TX 1972.
$.19/gallon. From Austin (ya I had to get an education) couldn't put a full dollar's worth in.
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11-09-2021, 10:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim18655
I wonder what the price of gas would be if they still did that service?
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Look at the gas price signs in CA. They list the price for self-serve @ $5.xx /G, full-service @ $6.xx/G; and I think that is just pumping gas for the customer, not checking tires, washing windshield, checking windshield washing fluid, checking oil, etc.
THEN, you are expected to tip the gas pumper_.
Don't pay any attention to me, I'm
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11-09-2021, 10:43 PM
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Winnebago Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
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It's a matter of comparing prices to wages.
When I started working as a HD truck mechanic the wages were around $3.00 an hour. Now it's over $50.00! With a pension plan to boot.
I am still glad I grew up when I did. And now I have a great life and the RV's are so much better.
Life is good. 
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