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Posted by Ralph Barker (67.60.160.207) on May 16, 2008 at 11:13:14:
Location: Rio Rancho, NM
In Reply to: Maybe Ralph or Stan.... posted by JW Stovall on May 16, 2008 at 00:14:51:
. . . I do remember when gas was normally around $0.17/gallon, and would drop to $0.10 when the So. Cal. stations decided to have "gas wars". That made traveling around in my '55 Chevy pretty economical, even though it didn't get very good mileage by today's standards. Of course, I only made $1.25/hour at the hardware store back then.
Here's a recent photo of an old station in Wes Virginia, not too far from Wayne and Ruthie's place: