B00mer there was only one time i talked about you and i mentioned you by name. Like when you and eaglesmack flirt. Thats been it, your aight
Best of the 1950's
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Don't remember much about the fifties. Was just a toddler. I have a faded recollection of my dad and me driving down Apache Blvd in Tempe right by Arizona State University.
Old B00Mer wasn't born until closer to the 70's
But would have loved to have been a teenager in the 50's
What would you have liked best, raping your dates or beating up black and Latino kids?Old B00Mer wasn't born until closer to the 70's
But would have loved to have been a teenager in the 50's
Maybe where you lived. I lived in Canada. No bomb damage here, and my mother used to send care parcels to her relatives in England.
Well, tell mom thanks a whole freakin' bunch! Maybe if she'd just kept her money and taken care of her own family, Jack Cade's mother woulda miscarried, to the benefit of the whole world.
Free air. Free windshield cleaning. They pumped your gas. And if you asked them, they'd check your air pressure (or, as they say in Quebec, 'your hair pressure'), your rad, and a lot of places topped up your windshield washer fluid 'por nada'. All that was included in however many gallons of gas they pumped. As a child, I would watch these fellows in the nice caps and bow ties race around the car hoping to get everything done before the pump turned off.
Here's a little peak
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For your information, colour TV was first broadcast in Canada in 1966, but stations started converting in earnest in 1967. This next commercial shows the pull tabs that were very popular at the time.
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Stations were all full serve through the 1960s until the early 1970s when, in Canada anyway, the world of petroleum and petroleum byproducts started changing. We started to see 'chains' of discount gas stations. Self serve appeared, and many old ladies were at their wit's end. How do I put the gas in?
No more moving the little metal tab on the handle to keep the gas pumping! They took the little metal tabs off. But it was okay for gas attendants to put them on and walk away though...
Beaver Gas (owned by shell) and Gain stations (owned by Esso) opened up. Many at the former locations of their parent companies. Lots of other discount places started springing up. That was around the time we switched from buying in imp. gals to litres. Pierre Trudeau's idea of getting in step with the modern world.
Here's a little peak
[youtube]DRRwyqeHzPs[/youtube]
For your information, colour TV was first broadcast in Canada in 1966, but stations started converting in earnest in 1967. This next commercial shows the pull tabs that were very popular at the time.
[youtube]kip7mQvpz80[/youtube]
Stations were all full serve through the 1960s until the early 1970s when, in Canada anyway, the world of petroleum and petroleum byproducts started changing. We started to see 'chains' of discount gas stations. Self serve appeared, and many old ladies were at their wit's end. How do I put the gas in?
No more moving the little metal tab on the handle to keep the gas pumping! They took the little metal tabs off. But it was okay for gas attendants to put them on and walk away though...
Beaver Gas (owned by shell) and Gain stations (owned by Esso) opened up. Many at the former locations of their parent companies. Lots of other discount places started springing up. That was around the time we switched from buying in imp. gals to litres. Pierre Trudeau's idea of getting in step with the modern world.
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Bolton. It's a place for. . . well, "God made him therefore let him pass for a man" who can't make it in London.
This brings back a few memories for sure when I started driving gas was twenty five cents a gallon
There were giveaways and when you took your car to the local garage you actually trusted the rural
mechanic who owned the station. If was full service and good service at that. I remember back in
1957 Royalite Gas Stations had a promotion when the brought out their first credit cards There was
a special brand name watch promotion. I have the watch put away I should dig it out for a look
It was a famous brand and the promotion price was 14 6 dollars in four easy payments
Hey thanks for the memories on this and oh a jukebox song was five plays for a quarter too
There were giveaways and when you took your car to the local garage you actually trusted the rural
mechanic who owned the station. If was full service and good service at that. I remember back in
1957 Royalite Gas Stations had a promotion when the brought out their first credit cards There was
a special brand name watch promotion. I have the watch put away I should dig it out for a look
It was a famous brand and the promotion price was 14 6 dollars in four easy payments
Hey thanks for the memories on this and oh a jukebox song was five plays for a quarter too