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Rhiannon12866

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6. When I first got my license, I don't remember gas stations selling anything besides gas and tires

Mon Jun 11, 2018, 05:01 AM

Jun 2018

I took my car to the Mobil station just down the road, the same place that my parents took their cars for service. We knew the owner and the names of the mechanics - the owner was a really nice older guy and he looked after us, he gave me a special key chain with the name of the station on it when I got my own car (1971 Plymouth Duster inherited from my mother who got a new car every 10 years). I remember that he died rather suddenly one Christmas Eve and my friend thought it was odd that I took the time to go to the wake - but my parents went, too. He was considered a family friend.

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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