I remember traveling south from Ohio to Alabama when I was a kid to visit the relatives and the gas price wars bringing down the price of gas to 15 cents a gallon. Of course when they didn't have a price war and you bought 8 gallons or more you got 6, 8oz. drinking glasses with your gas purchase. Some one also pumped your gas, cleaned the windshield and checked to see if you needed a quart of
oil (you always needed a quart of
oil). The
oil came in glass containers, then round cardboard with metal top and bottom, until the plastic container we have today. I can also remember my dad telling me when he went to the corner bar for his dad as a child to get him a beer for a nickel and there was a large table set up with food so you could make a sandwich which was free, when you purchased that nickel beer.
Dan, just turned 63 in March of this year.