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chillfactor

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1. I was born in 1941....

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Mon Aug 27, 2018, 02:00 AM

Aug 2018

The price of gasoline per gallon in 1941 was much less that it is today. Today's average prices are around $3.60 per gallon. In 1941, gas was only around 15 cents per gallon. When I was a little girl, and I was daddy's girl, I remember him buying gas for 25 cents a gallon.

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What a gallon of gas cost the year you were born [View all] Rhiannon12866 Aug 2018 OP

I was born in 1941.... chillfactor Aug 2018 #1

Thanks for the recollection! It really has gone way up in recent years. Rhiannon12866 Aug 2018 #2

For anyone else unwilling to click thru 89 slides: jxla Aug 2018 #3

I did change this post to that article, but changed it back when I noticed there wasn't a photo Rhiannon12866 Aug 2018 #4

1940 OxQQme Aug 2018 #5