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He must be waaaaayyyy older than me.
My father remembered when it was that low when he graduated from high school---in 1948. -
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
- Thread starter LizzieMaine
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My father remembered when it was that low when he graduated from high school---in 1948. 
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My Grandpa graduated HS in '48. My dad's got about 10 years on you.
He must be waaaaayyyy older than me.
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Ten years?! lol lol Grandpa?!
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He isn't that old!
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And my granddad was my age in 1948.
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My father retired then as well.
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Yeah but I don't work for the Feds.
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Neither did my Grandpa. He was a Union Lather, as was my father, and my Great-Grandfather.
Yeah but I don't work for the Feds.
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And it skipped you?
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Matt Crunk
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Don't know if I'm older than you or just in a cheaper part of the country, but I remember it at .55 cents a gallon when I was first old enough to notice. I believe it was still just shy of a dollar a gallon when I started driving.
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It was 1.87 a gallon when I started driving. That was only in 2006 lol
LizzieMaine
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I remember the day they came to replace the mechanical price computers on our gas pumps because the existing units wouldn't go above 99.9 cents per gallon. Until they got around to us, we had to set the pumps to display the price per *half* gallon, and you had to pay twice the "total" amount shown.
When I started doing the books for the station in high school, the price per gallon was around 60 cents. It passed the dollar mark here in the summer of 1979, and the panic was on.
When I started doing the books for the station in high school, the price per gallon was around 60 cents. It passed the dollar mark here in the summer of 1979, and the panic was on.
HudsonHawk
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Those of us who earn our living in the oil business thank you for your enthusiasm.
The cheapest I remember gas was 59 cents. That was in 1998.
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It is always more expensive here near The Largest Oudoor Insane Asylum. :doh:
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59 cents?! Geez, it was never that here in 1998.
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Gee, that was like yesterday....
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