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Things Kids of Today Wouldn't Recognize

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  1. Backwoods Savage

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    It really is such a shame that true customer service is no longer done except for a very few.
     
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    When I started driving gas was usually around .21 cents per gallon. The cheapest I ever bought gas was one time going through Lansing, MI and found it for 7.9 cents per gallon!
     
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    Don't think it was that long ago when green stamps went with the dinosaurs. I remember winning lots of stamps when a company I worked for gave them as prizes.
     
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    I was leaving that question up to you Dennis. I remember $0.27 and $0.34 when I started driving. When it hit $0.40 the whole world was going to he!!.
     
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    I can say the Giant grocery store here, they take you to it. I even had some gentleman what that were restocking their beer help us out since it was on the same aisle.
     
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    I remember the old cigarette machines that cost you 50 cents for a pack of smokes.
     
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    Never knew that! I learned something today! What years did that stop being incorporated into vehicles?

    My “thing” that kids don’t know what they are are payphone booths. Up until 2 years ago, the Albany NY airport had a bank of 5 or 6 of the sit-in kind. People would always be sitting in them, laptops open and on their cell phones...
     
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    I used them on some vehicles (some) from the 50's and that would have been about it.
     
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    I dont feel as though I am that old but I can remember when I started driving (less than 20 years ago) gas was $0.97 per gallon. We would go to the Outer Banks every summer (grandparents had a house in Nags Head) and gas was $1.20 per gallon in Virginia. We thought that was crazy expensive. What I wouldn't give to pay $1.20 per gallon when filling up now...
     
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    I believe it was around 1957 that my father had a texaco station and I remember Super Sky Chief was selling for .249 a gallon.
     
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    I remember my father, who was a 3 pack a day man, getting packs out of machines where we lived in Penna.. They were .48 a pack. He would put two quarters in and the pack would come out with .02 taped to the side of it. I always tried to be close by when that took place. It was fairly profitable for me.
     
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    That was another source of profit for me when I as a young un'. I could never pass a empty booth without checking the change slot on the phone !!!!!!!!
     
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    What year rottiman? Pre 1964 quarters were 90% silver in the US and worth $3.08 each today. I believe they were 90% silver until 1967 in Canada.
     
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    If I remember (some 60 years ago), I think I was between 5 & 10 yo so it would have been in the mid to late 50's maybe the early 60's.
     
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    Remember all. Circus Peanuts. MMM
     
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    The least I paid for gas was also .249 gallon. And that was way up here in the U.P.!!!!

    My teeth hurt just looking at those circus peanuts.
     
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    But do you remember when the price went up to $.25 per pack?! I remember lots of folks saying they were going to quit because they were too expensive. Can you imagine a carton costing around $2.00?
     
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