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.
And S & H Green Stamps!!! I remember licking the back of those stamps and pasting in the booklets. We had a store in town where you could redeem them for items.
That black car just off-center in the photo would probably cause people to believe that the photo was taken earlier, but the cars across the street and the gas prices probably peg the photo to the late '60s. I recall that regular gas in Orange County was about $.32/gal. in the early '70s before the Arab oil embargo.
At El Toro MCAS it was under $.30/gal. at that time. I was outraged in 1971 when I stopped in Baker on my way back from Vegas and had to pay $.44/gal. for regular. Outrageous, sir! Pure robbery!!!
Ignore the prices and the stamps, notice how clean the streets and sidewalks are? What happened to Californians with pride and class? Dennis the librarian shusher
Aerospace was CA-local back to before WWII. (You could look it up.) And they vote Republican.
The douchebags who moved in hailed from NYC, Boston, Philly, and BFEgypt, couldn't pick a slide rule out of a line up, and voted straight Dumbocrat tickets, first in Frisco, and later in L.A.
After that, there was nowhere to go but down. Only then (late 1980s) did the Turd World move to prominence. When you get bored sometime, look up the point of origin of Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and recalled CA Governor Gray Davis. Or for that matter, L.A.'s 5-time mayor, who incited the Rodney King free TVs and Nike shoes riots, Uncle Tom Bradley. And South Central's favorite communist, Mad Maxine Waters. [Pro tip: Not one Californian in the lot.] The prosecution rests.
Early 60's could be. I had begun commuting to college in downtown Atlanta from near the airport in my hand-me-down '50 Studebaker. I was making it a week on 25 cent per gallon Gulftane. Probably took a Studebaker Champion to run on that. I remember it hitting 50 cents when I was working in NJ during the oil "crisis" but that's another story.
Late 1950s. BTW, 30¢ in 1959 is $3.20 in 2024 dollars. Which is more than it costs now in 40 states plus D.C. Only ten states are more than that today, led (of course) by Califrutopia. It's an avg. of $4.62 in CA now, a difference largely attributable to hijack-level gasoline taxes from the apparatchik's in the Sacramento one-party Politburo.
Aesop, please point out those gas stations to the rest of us! In the Simi Valley Costco yesterday it was $4.99 for regular. $5.27 is not uncommon at the mainline gas stations.
Aesop, your response is always ,"those people from back east," why didn't the Californians stop them? Demand and use littering laws? Pick up trash when they saw it? How long are you going to deny any responsibility for that pigsty a beautiful state has turned into? C.W. I apologize for this, but slackers offend me Dennis the librarian shusher
Stop them how? Shoot on sight? Bounty per hide? What...?
The state's population doubled in a generation. Half of that was internal migration of ne'er-do-wells, the other half was illegals 49 other states didn't see a problem with. Thanks a pantload.
Victor Davis Hanson has catalogued the decline much better than I care to do, for decades.
My sole consolation is after the collapse here (because, thankfully, the state can't print money to get out of the inevitable collapse), your toothless banjo-playing kinfolk will move back home, and they'll be bringing their illegal alien gardeners and nannies with them when they return.
When I was a kid in Cincy OH I would walk to the neighborhood independent station and fill up the lawnmower gallon gas can for a quarter. Regular was 24.9.
24.9¢ in Freeport, CA, just south of Sacramento, in 1973. Adjusted for inflation that would be $1.75 today. I topped off the 25 gallon tank on my old Power Wagon for less than five bucks. Amazing.
Anonymous @3:17 I existed in Ca. for almost 30 years,and listened to that trash talk all that time from people who wouldn't call out a pig or pick up trash along the roadway.Most of them added to the problem. Finally retired an moved back to Mich.,(Yes, we have some pigs here, but they generally get called out and fined). That was also the state where I was taught to either sign my name or keep my mouth shut. Dennis the librarian shusher Once again C.W, I apologize
Back in the early 60's, my buddies and I would collect our change and get $5 worth of gas that would last the entire evening of driving around and being stupid.
Here in South Florida in the mid 60's, gas was 19¢. During gas wars it was 17¢ plus a free glass with 8 gal. purchase. You could do most car repairs yourself. No fancy electronics.
Santa Monica gas stations had gas high. I am from Alhambra, CA in the San Gabriel Valley east of downtown LA and in 72 before gas went crazy regular was 22 cents per gallon. Premium was a couple of cents more usually.
And S & H Green Stamps!!! I remember licking the back of those stamps and pasting in the booklets. We had a store in town where you could redeem them for items.
ReplyDeleteI think my Mom still has a set of towels she got from redeemed green stamps.
Deletewe did too, I redeemed for a sheath knife.
DeleteThat black car just off-center in the photo would probably cause people to believe that the photo was taken earlier, but the cars across the street and the gas prices probably peg the photo to the late '60s. I recall that regular gas in Orange County was about $.32/gal. in the early '70s before the Arab oil embargo.
ReplyDeleteAt El Toro MCAS it was under $.30/gal. at that time. I was outraged in 1971 when I stopped in Baker on my way back from Vegas and had to pay $.44/gal. for regular. Outrageous, sir! Pure robbery!!!
10th grade, same era, I can see the sign "32-9".
DeleteIgnore the prices and the stamps, notice how clean the streets and sidewalks are? What happened to Californians with pride and class?
ReplyDeleteDennis the librarian shusher
Well, mainly the folks from back East swarmed in.
DeleteSince you asked.
Nope, Aesop. It was all the immigrants from the Tur...Third World.
DeleteAesop is right. All the people who came to work on the space programs.
DeleteAerospace was CA-local back to before WWII.
Delete(You could look it up.)
And they vote Republican.
The douchebags who moved in hailed from NYC, Boston, Philly, and BFEgypt, couldn't pick a slide rule out of a line up, and voted straight Dumbocrat tickets, first in Frisco, and later in L.A.
After that, there was nowhere to go but down.
Only then (late 1980s) did the Turd World move to prominence.
When you get bored sometime, look up the point of origin of Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and recalled CA Governor Gray Davis.
Or for that matter, L.A.'s 5-time mayor, who incited the Rodney King free TVs and Nike shoes riots, Uncle Tom Bradley.
And South Central's favorite communist, Mad Maxine Waters.
[Pro tip: Not one Californian in the lot.]
The prosecution rests.
I'll wait here while you look them up.
My grandparents had a book keeping and printing business, they had a table off to the side where you could swap trading stamps.
ReplyDeletePic has to be from sometime in the early 60s.
ReplyDeleteEarly 60's could be. I had begun commuting to college in downtown Atlanta from near the airport in my hand-me-down '50 Studebaker. I was making it a week on 25 cent per gallon Gulftane. Probably took a Studebaker Champion to run on that. I remember it hitting 50 cents when I was working in NJ during the oil "crisis" but that's another story.
ReplyDeleteLate 1950s.
ReplyDeleteBTW, 30¢ in 1959 is $3.20 in 2024 dollars.
Which is more than it costs now in 40 states plus D.C.
Only ten states are more than that today, led (of course) by Califrutopia.
It's an avg. of $4.62 in CA now, a difference largely attributable to hijack-level gasoline taxes from the apparatchik's in the Sacramento one-party Politburo.
Aesop, please point out those gas stations to the rest of us! In the Simi Valley Costco yesterday it was $4.99 for regular. $5.27 is not uncommon at the mainline gas stations.
Delete$3.47 in Northwest Ohio today
DeleteI'm paying $4.69 at a Shell station within the sound of the nightly fireworks from Disneyland.
Delete$4.62 was AAA numbers. Ask them.
When I worked on the NJTP, diesel was 17 cents.
ReplyDeleteAesop, your response is always ,"those people from back east," why didn't the Californians stop them? Demand and use littering laws? Pick up trash when they saw it? How long are you going to deny any responsibility for that pigsty a beautiful state has turned into?
ReplyDeleteC.W. I apologize for this, but slackers offend me
Dennis the librarian shusher
slackers? You mean truth tellers? Where you from, N.Y?
DeleteStop them how?
DeleteShoot on sight?
Bounty per hide?
What...?
The state's population doubled in a generation.
Half of that was internal migration of ne'er-do-wells, the other half was illegals 49 other states didn't see a problem with.
Thanks a pantload.
Victor Davis Hanson has catalogued the decline much better than I care to do, for decades.
My sole consolation is after the collapse here (because, thankfully, the state can't print money to get out of the inevitable collapse), your toothless banjo-playing kinfolk will move back home, and they'll be bringing their illegal alien gardeners and nannies with them when they return.
Best wishes on that day.
Gas station on every corner meant gas wars and 26 cents a gallon.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid in Cincy OH I would walk to the neighborhood independent station and fill up the lawnmower gallon gas can for a quarter. Regular was 24.9.
ReplyDelete24.9¢ in Freeport, CA, just south of Sacramento, in 1973. Adjusted for inflation that would be $1.75 today. I topped off the 25 gallon tank on my old Power Wagon for less than five bucks. Amazing.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous @3:17 I existed in Ca. for almost 30 years,and listened to that trash talk all that time from people who wouldn't call out a pig or pick up trash along the roadway.Most of them added to the problem.
ReplyDeleteFinally retired an moved back to Mich.,(Yes, we have some pigs here, but they generally get called out and fined).
That was also the state where I was taught to either sign my name or keep my mouth shut.
Dennis the librarian shusher
Once again C.W, I apologize
That price for gas, INCUDING cleaning windshields, checking air in tires, and checking oil.
ReplyDeleteBack in the early 60's, my buddies and I would collect our change and get $5 worth of gas that would last the entire evening of driving around and being stupid.
ReplyDeletestop at several stations and ask each for "a quarters worth so I can get home".
DeleteHere in South Florida in the mid 60's, gas was 19¢. During gas wars it was 17¢ plus a free glass with 8 gal. purchase. You could do most car repairs yourself. No fancy electronics.
ReplyDeleteSanta Monica gas stations had gas high. I am from Alhambra, CA in the San Gabriel Valley east of downtown LA and in 72 before gas went crazy regular was 22 cents per gallon. Premium was a couple of cents more usually.
ReplyDeleteI am curious as to why would anyone with any common sense still live in Cali-fornicated?
DeleteDoesn't have to be the early 60's. I paid between eighteen and twenty cents a gallon in Florida in 1970.
ReplyDeleteIt does, based on the cars in the photo.
DeleteI say late '50s because of that, and because the avg. price had climbed higher here by the 1960s.