Remember when America was like this?

[Garage Dog]

I can still remember it. Seems so long ago.

[Jig N Pig]

Yes I do. Those really were the good ole days.

[old373guy]

I remember full service gas stations very well but I don't think the ones we went to provided quite that complete of service at the pumps. Wash windows for sure but I always remember them asking if we wanted the oil checked, they didn't do it automatically.

[behls16]

There were way too many god awful things about American society in those days for me to wax poetic.

[joefish]

It was pretty much the same in the 1960's. In High School i worked at an uncles station, would wash windows, check oil, check tires, vacuum floors at the pumps for $2.00 Or $3.00 of gas. Thats about all the tank would hold at $0.15 per gallon.

[Charger186]

I can still remember it. Seems so long ago.

I wish I grew up back then. Better times I'm sure! I have a gas pump from that era. A really nice Bennett model 966 with all the original parts and original porcelain. Much like the one's at the 5:00 mark. Mine has white doors though. Cool video!

[pavi69]

There were way too many god awful things about American society in those days for me to wax poetic.

I could not help but look for the colored rest room sign. My second job at 16 was pumping gas at my uncles service station.

[gatorsin09]

It was really cool back then when the adirondacks were showered in acid rain and every lake in the park was sterile. Ah the good ole days

[dwmgg17]

Went to a few in the 60"s and early 70's.

[basscat21]

Still do pump and wash the window in NJ.

[csurp]

I started driving in Connecticut in the sixties and I think all that was left a full service auto then was Goober on The Andy Griffith Show. I don't mind washing
my own windows and should do it more often. I am guilty of not checking my oil. Modern vehicles just don't seem to use it like they used to.

[wicker*man]

No

[wolfman051]

The great days!!!

[RFSims]

Yep, worked at one when I was a teenager. Pumped the gas, washed windshield, checked air in tires and checked the oil and battery water. Customer never had to get out of the car.

[CaymasRodney]

Remember the stamps they give you, glue them in a small book and you could collect prizes by trading in your books full of stamps!!

[grandbassslayer]

There were way too many god awful things about American society in those days for me to wax poetic.

Glass half empty?

[Phoenix 921]

There were way too many god awful things about American society in those days for me to wax poetic.

yep but there were a lot about that time that was so much better than today. No time has been perfect even today.

[Grumpy/LGF]

Remember the stamps they give you, glue them in a small book and you could collect prizes by trading in your books full of stamps!!

Yes the blue chips stamps, I was a kid , but remember my mother taking books in to get stuff. When I was 8, I would push my motorcycle across, old redwood hwy, before it became hwy 101, to the union 76 and get, 50 cents worth of ethyl.

[Rumour2u]

Nope.

[dwmgg17]

Sounds like Allentown, PA has been in a coma and has no idea what has gone on here in the last 20 and the prospects of it getting better is very slim.