And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
.26 a gal. when I started driving (legally) in 1959 along with a windshield wipe, battery check, tire pressure check all by a guy wearing a tie and cap. + S&H Green stamps and Bootonware dinner plates to boot.
If that was in 1974, the 43 cent regular fuel, adjusted for inflation, would be $2.33. Of all stupid things, I just saw fuel for exactly that, in Savannah, GA.
I was going to say that was post '73, I was buying gas at the Gulf station off 101 at Petaluma Hill Rd (Penngrove) in Sonoma county for 24.9 cents per gallon in the pre '73 California. Get a steak knife with a $3 purchase. My Triumph 2000 sedan had a 10 gallon gas tank... no steak knife for me...
I hadn't realized (until cujet mentioned it) just how far our dollar had shrunk...
1969 at Hudson station in San Jose...19 cents. Mid 60s at Star & Bar and others up to 4x stamps while trying to under cut the other guys price by a penny. Did not buy any glassware for years.
It doesn't seem like that long ago, but it was.
ReplyDelete.26 a gal. when I started driving (legally) in 1959 along with a windshield wipe, battery check, tire pressure check all by a guy wearing a tie and cap. + S&H Green stamps and Bootonware dinner plates to boot.
ReplyDeleteIf that was in 1974, the 43 cent regular fuel, adjusted for inflation, would be $2.33. Of all stupid things, I just saw fuel for exactly that, in Savannah, GA.
ReplyDeleteRegular is 3.60 to 3.80 a gallon here in California, or Venezuelastan, as it shall soon be known.
DeleteI was going to say that was post '73, I was buying gas at the Gulf station off 101 at Petaluma Hill Rd (Penngrove) in Sonoma county for 24.9 cents per gallon in the pre '73 California. Get a steak knife with a $3 purchase. My Triumph 2000 sedan had a 10 gallon gas tank... no steak knife for me...
ReplyDeleteI hadn't realized (until cujet mentioned it) just how far our dollar had shrunk...
1969 at Hudson station in San Jose...19 cents. Mid 60s at Star & Bar and others up to 4x stamps while trying to under cut the other guys price by a penny. Did not buy any glassware for years.
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