In a way I long for those days too. Then I remember that the prevailing wage
for teens was $1.00 an hour!
When I was a teen in the mid 60's gas was 27.9 for years.
Times change, don't they?
Cheers, Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@cox.net>
To: "'Triumph Friends of'" <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] Stations of yesteryear
>I remember those as well in my West Texas Home town. Two stations that sat
> next to each other were always getting into those gas wars. I long for
> those years when you could drive around for a week on a buck's worth of
> gas.
>
> Joe C.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of RACER BUD
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 6:11 PM
> To: Tylerpthompson@yahoo.com; 'Triumph Friends of'
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Stations of yesteryear
>
> Very cool!...I remember gas wars in Reno when it got down to 5
> cents..about
> 1965
> RB
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