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07-22-2015 04:15 PM #14
I remember, I remember. In 1966, I worked at the MFA gas station in front of the Katz Drug store on Glenstone Ave in Springfield, Mo. A lady in a red 64 Galaxie 500XL convertible came in and I managed to squeeze $5 worth of gas into the tank. Boss jumped my butt and said I ran gas on the ground....we looked under the car and no puddles....it really held $5 of gas. At some point a year earlier, I was buying gas at that same station for 15.9 cents per gallon. A buck would let you cruise and still get home. I remember people buying 25 cents of gas.....that's all they had in their pocket. Today, 25 cents would get you a whiff of the nozzle. But then, I was making $1 an hour at the MFA station. So a gallon of gas in 1966 at perhaps 21 cents per gallon meant I got paid the equivalent of $1/.21=4 3/4 gallons of gas. Today, at $2.78 per gallon, my equivalent hourly salary would need to be $13.23.... hmmm, I think I will take today's gas prices.





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