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If you remember when motor oil did not come in cans (the uniformed attendant would draw the oil into a glass jar with a chrome funnel screw-on top),
or remember asking the guy to check for 32 all the way around (no need to mention the windshield),
or getting a free steak knife or glass and getting stamps that you could later redeem for cool stuff,
You might be old like me and get a kick out of the following...
Tom
Tom
'A Man's got to have a code...
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." -John Bernard Books. Jan. 22, 1901
My Dad owned an American Oil gas station on Las Vegas Blvd, where the New York, New York sits now. Not as old as those. I worked summers in the early 70's and we still, cleaned the windows, checked the oil and tires, just part of the service then. I do remember the Green stamps too, lots of cool stuff for a kid.
ScottS
"No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
-- Ronald Reagan
salvo wrote:My Dad owned an American Oil gas station on Las Vegas Blvd, where the New York, New York sits now. Not as old as those. I worked summers in the early 70's and we still, cleaned the windows, checked the oil and tires, just part of the service then. I do remember the Green stamps too, lots of cool stuff for a kid.
I've been to New York, New York. Hope your dad profited from that.
Sincerely,
Hobie
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend." Robert Louis Stevenson
My uncle was one of the first people to set up his service station to deal with the then-new rubber-tire tractors, and did very well for a time in the 30's and 40's - the family home burned down in the 60's, but in an old chicken coop there were some old 'artifacts' of that bygone era. The glass 'chimneys' they'd pull up the fuel into to measure it, etc. Cool stuff.
Too bad we can't return to some of the 'innocence' of that era, given the current political and economic climate...
It's 2025 - "Cutesy Time is OVER....!" [Dan Bongino]
salvo wrote:My Dad owned an American Oil gas station on Las Vegas Blvd, where the New York, New York sits now. Not as old as those. I worked summers in the early 70's and we still, cleaned the windows, checked the oil and tires, just part of the service then. I do remember the Green stamps too, lots of cool stuff for a kid.
I've been to New York, New York. Hope your dad profited from that.
Heck, I've stayed there more than once. +1 on what Hobie said - hope he made out like a one-armed bandit!!!
Great post Tom. I was just a button, but I still remember the full service attendents coming out to my parents' car as well (an old Dodge Dart)....
