Oh I remember the service stations! My dad worked at a service station and when I was 9 he got his own. I grew up in a Texaco service station. Gas was 35.9 and by 72 it was 45.9. Self service hadn't been thought of. They started out with full service. You checked the oil and the battery every time. you wiped the windows and gave green stamps. There was only one kind of gas. NO ethanol yet. Then came full service or mini service. You pumped gas but no washing windows or checking the oil etc. Self service had not been started yet when my dad closed his gas station in 1974. Gas was 59.9 for full service or 54.9 for mini service. I learned to check oil at the age of 9 and worked at the gas station cleaning and running errands from the time I was about 10. I started pumping gas at the age of 12. The Texaco Star still brings chills to my soul as my dad has been gone for 20 yrs this Dec and it always brings back so many memories! The smell of oil and gas brings back so many memories of the gas station.
We gave green stamps at the station and I went with Mom to the distribution center to pick them up alot of the time. When I stayed at my grandma's she had a big deep drawer she saved all her stamps for whem my cousin Jim and I to put them in books when we came. The Hyvee gave out the yellow Crown stamps and there were about 4 or 5 differant stamps you could get depending on where you shopped.
Pop was only in glass bottles. Royal Crown Cola -Double Cola(tasted like Dr. Pepper and Coke mixed) -Grape Nehi -Orange Nehi -Coke actually had a bit of cocaine in it then(that is where the name came from originally) Coke started out as a syrup for coughs and colds. My grandma used to make homemade root beer. and she made popcorn balls my favorite!
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