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yonder

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3. Growing up in Denver some 55+ years ago,

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Mon Jun 11, 2018, 04:30 AM

Jun 2018

I remember those Big-Top stores. They were red and white with an odd and roundish, circus tent-like roof. Some years later, the Gas-A-Mat stores started popping up. Those were the ones where you separately bought and inserted tokens into the pumps.

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Happy Birthday, Self-Serve Gas [View all] Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 OP

Interesting piece Sherman A1 Jun 2018 #1

I remember, too - imagined that most of us would Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #2

Yes, those were the days. Sherman A1 Jun 2018 #5

When I first got my license, I don't remember gas stations selling anything besides gas and tires Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #6

We too had a local gas station/ garage across from the public high school were my Mom Sherman A1 Jun 2018 #9

That's where the Mobil station was - and still is - right across from the school Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #10

Growing up in Denver some 55+ years ago, yonder Jun 2018 #3

My cousins grew up in Denver, too - so they must remember the tokens Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #4

Just like canned beans, fluffy socks, running shoes, and durable appliances bucolic_frolic Jun 2018 #7

I especially miss the fluffy socks, too! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #8

The sock world bucolic_frolic Jun 2018 #11

I have gotten Gold Toe, too! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #12

I'm from New Jersey. We don't pump our own fukkin gas. 3Hotdogs Jun 2018 #13

Oregon was like that too, yonder Jun 2018 #14