LOVE this vert photo

[lt4supr]

I remember the gas crisis in 1969..15 cents a gallon

[soonercruiser]

OMG! "Green Stamps"!!!
Now you're talking my highschool days!

[crusierdad76]

and them famous GAS WARS if you drop yours to .15 ill drop mine to .12 ( and it cost them probably >18 to buy it)

[Bluenoser]

Originally Posted by crusierdad76

OMG Been there we didn't have the "COMPLETE UNIFORM" with the hat---- but Oh yes I was one of the ones who said a million times --------------------- How may I help you today Sir-----and really back then that was a true statement---we checked the oik, cleaned the windshield, checked the tires, and handed out Green Stamps, and man did we make some big bucks something like$ 3.25 a hour
What a difference 30 years makes

30 years did not make much of a wage difference for the retail blue colar worker,job pays maybe 8.50 an hour now and no tips+ look at the cost of living between now and 30 years ago.In my area you could buy a house for 50 thousand now a mobile home is worth 100 thousand

[crusierdad76]

Hey blue I live out in the sticks we are like 15 miles to the closes McDonald's and probably at least 30 to the closes wal mart--- one of our neighbors just bought a really cool looking Two Story Mobil Home--OK so now they call them Modular Homes or Off site built homes the lot price was $149,000 it is turn key and it is sweet and it is way quicker and yes id do it in a heart beat but I can so hear what you are saying

[Bluenoser]

Thats about the same price here in the maritimes for a Modular home,pretty neat when you drive by an empty lot and 2 days later theres a house with sod down already plant a tree and JOB DONE

[soonercruiser]

Originally Posted by Bluenoser

Thats about the same price here in the maritimes for a Modular home,pretty neat when you drive by an empty lot and 2 days later theres a house with sod down already plant a tree and JOB DONE

Golllllly! You mean you coldnosers don't all live in log cabins???

[Bluenoser]

Modualr log cabins for the rich and modular igloo for the regular folks.Gots to watch the party guest in the summer,they keep chippin bits of my house for there fancy drinks

[ashrat]

Yes, I remember those days VERY well. My Dad ran a gas station and my brothers and I all got to "help" for free. I got enough experience that I was able to land a paying job at another station in town when I was 13. That was in the summer of '65. I would ride past the Ford dealers lot and they had a '57 T-Bird priced at $850. I wanted that car something awful, but a 13 year old making $1.35/hr didn't have a chance. I did end up buying a 1969 Mustang with a 428 Cobra Jet engine (with shaker hood scoop) from that dealer in 1971 for $2500. That's the car I had when the wife and I got married that summer. Still have the wife, but not the car.

[EDGEFIND]

I'm not trying to direct anyone away from here, but if you enjoy looking at old auto genre type photos from the past as I do, you might enjoy this thread that someone else directed me towards:

The Supercar Registry Bulletin Board: Old Street Scenes