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.
Find an old gas price & the year then go to an inflation calculator and see what it would cost today. 19 cents a gallon in 1934 comes out to $3.65 a gallon today (2019). That is the state of the dollar rather than gas prices...
FWIW that is more than I was paying at the Gulf station on Petaluma Hill Rd and US 101 in Sonoma county in the fall of '71. I had a 10 gallon gas tank and could not spend the $3 needed for a free steak knife. I paid $2.99 the other day here in Washington state!
The pre 64 silver dimes are worth $1.27. Gasoline is cheaper now than in 1964. It is your currency that has lost value. We no longer have money, that was replaced by the Federal Reserve with F R notes which are currency.
I remember when gas stations offered sets of glasses, flatware, etc. to induce you to go there and buy fuel. Then some of them went to S&H Green Stamps and Blue Stamps. Wild.
I can remember getting gas (in the late 50's and early 60's) by asking for 1 or 2 dollars worth at a time, and got green stamps with full service as well. Then again, I was making $1.50/hour bagging groceries. :-)
My family drove from Woodland Hills in the Valley up to Santa Cruz in the late '50s, in our Fairlane 500. Filled up when we started; gas was $0.23/gal at our local discount gas station.
Around Ventura there was a gas war, prices were down to $0.04/gal which almost made my Dad cry, because he could only fit a gallon in the tank!
In the Army at Ft Knox 1968-70 I recall paying in the neighborhood of 30-35 cents per gallon pretty much everywhere. Driving home quite a few times to Sault Ste Marie (700 miles give or take) the Mackinaw Bridge fare each way was $3.75, as a comparison. As a teenager in about 1963, spending a couple weeks visiting my older cousin and aunt in Motown, I recall a gas war going on at about 8 Mile and Evergreen and gas was about 12 Cents. Good times, even though I wasn't buying back then........
When I was 17, my friend worked at a gas station. Regularly, the station across the street started price wars and it often got down to 16.9 cents a gallon.
I recall gulf no-nox was just as good as sunoco 260
ReplyDeleteI'm old enough to remember prices like this.
ReplyDeleteLowest I remember seeing was $.199. Usually ibn the mid twenties.... 1960's
ReplyDeleteFind an old gas price & the year then go to an inflation calculator and see what it would cost today.
ReplyDelete19 cents a gallon in 1934 comes out to $3.65 a gallon today (2019).
That is the state of the dollar rather than gas prices...
FWIW that is more than I was paying at the Gulf station on Petaluma Hill Rd and US 101 in Sonoma county in the fall of '71. I had a 10 gallon gas tank and could not spend the $3 needed for a free steak knife. I paid $2.99 the other day here in Washington state!
Welcome to 1972.
ReplyDeleteThe pre 64 silver dimes are worth $1.27. Gasoline is cheaper now than in 1964. It is your currency that has lost value. We no longer have money, that was replaced by the Federal Reserve with F R notes which are currency.
ReplyDeleteI remember when gas stations offered sets of glasses, flatware, etc. to induce you to go there and buy fuel. Then some of them went to S&H Green Stamps and Blue Stamps. Wild.
ReplyDeleteGainesville Fl., mid 1960's, they called them gas wars. I recall 16.9 cents/gallon. Of course I was a kid making $1/hour mowing lawns.
ReplyDeleteUsed to put Gulftane in my hand-me-down '50 Studebaker. My parents had upgraded to a '54 Ford Mainline 6 cyl.
ReplyDeleteI can remember getting gas (in the late 50's and early 60's) by asking for 1 or 2 dollars worth at a time, and got green stamps with full service as well. Then again, I was making $1.50/hour bagging groceries. :-)
ReplyDeleteI worked on the NJ Turnpike pumping gas from '62 to when I got drafted in '65. Those were the approximate prices I remember and diesel was .17.
ReplyDeleteMy family drove from Woodland Hills in the Valley up to Santa Cruz in the late '50s, in our Fairlane 500. Filled up when we started; gas was $0.23/gal at our local discount gas station.
ReplyDeleteAround Ventura there was a gas war, prices were down to $0.04/gal which almost made my Dad cry, because he could only fit a gallon in the tank!
I can remember as a kid, my father filling the Buick with 0.179 a gallon.
ReplyDeleteIn the Army at Ft Knox 1968-70 I recall paying in the neighborhood of 30-35 cents per gallon pretty much everywhere. Driving home quite a few times to Sault Ste Marie (700 miles give or take) the Mackinaw Bridge fare each way was $3.75, as a comparison. As a teenager in about 1963, spending a couple weeks visiting my older cousin and aunt in Motown, I recall a gas war going on at about 8 Mile and Evergreen and gas was about 12 Cents. Good times, even though I wasn't buying back then........
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 17, my friend worked at a gas station. Regularly, the station across the street started price wars and it often got down to 16.9 cents a gallon.
ReplyDeleteI've paid less for lawn mower (and minibike) gas.
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