Great time to be alive compared to a world of today!!!
@craiganthony97353 жыл бұрын
I wish those days were back.
@jamesrussell61232 жыл бұрын
Me and you both Craig Anthony
@garymorris18562 жыл бұрын
Many of these old service stations are beautiful.
@bigears44264 жыл бұрын
I remember parts stores with people that knew about cars, nowadays it just kids and computers
@harrybriscoe79484 жыл бұрын
Was easier when cars had only 12 parts to the engine
@midcenturymodern93302 жыл бұрын
6:18, back then even service bays had style. Amazing!
@bluesharp594 жыл бұрын
Very cool video. Thumbs Up Liked !
@itinerantpatriot11962 жыл бұрын
"12 Gallons for a Dollar." At the rate things are going now it'll be 12 Dollars for a Gallon before much longer. I don't care what anyone says, videos like this remind me of a simpler time when this was just a better place to call home. I feel for the kids of today, I really do. Then again, I'm sure there was some old codger saying the same thing about me and my buddies back in the day. As the old song goes, time waits for no one.
@luisreyes19632 жыл бұрын
A fond remembrance of service stations of the past. Happy Motoring! ⛽
@stevebiesiadabada66694 жыл бұрын
I like old gas stations, I do paintings of old gas stations with old cars , street rods
@jamesrussell61232 жыл бұрын
I love the old service stations and gas stations especially the ones that I used to see when I was a little boy
@anibalbabilonia18675 жыл бұрын
That's very cool! That's when they used to full service your car, and you didn't even have to get out of the car! Service with a smile.😎👍
@waynebrumley23154 жыл бұрын
Burning Bridges one of my favorite songs, I worked at a Gulf gas stations in 67-68 in Gladewater Texas good years!
@atomictime9410 Жыл бұрын
Kelly's Heros!
@mattrowan268010 ай бұрын
Burning Bridges was performed by The Mike Curb Congregation in 1971/1972 and I have always liked that song. They did an early music video featuring that song well before music vids came out big time in the later 70's. Strange thing about that song is that it sounds like it should be a happy song but is actually a guy singing about his downers. You tube has the song and the "music video" with lyrics.
@joemilko25894 жыл бұрын
Was a gas jockey in 1969, we had to check oil, radiator water, battery water, wash windows, check brake fluid when asked and tire pressure all while pumping gas. The owner said you never know when you can sell a quart of oil. The cheats would short stick the dipstick to show a quart low and then add oil from an empty can. Restick again pushing the dipstick all the way showing the customer it was full. Gates belts had a promotion where they would have a car with a really bad belt. If you found it while checking under the hood you got $50.00 cash. Regular was $ 0.37 a gallon.
@randyhilger91142 жыл бұрын
They used to do that at Clark gas stations here back in those days
@ivanleterror91582 жыл бұрын
Most stations did this back in the day. We called it TBA sales. Tires, Batteries, and Accessories. Allowed you to check for possible sales without appearing too nosey and it did do a service for the customer as well. Unfortunately there was a lot of abuse also. One was actually wearing rings with a sharp edge on it to make a cut in a radiator hose so a few miles down the road it blew. This was more common at highway stations where 50 miles between them was very common. Worked 2 places where I didn't PUSH enough "expected sales" and was out the door. LA, early 60s to 70s.
@randyhilger91142 жыл бұрын
I bet Chicago had a lot there
@williamcharles94802 жыл бұрын
Worked in a Shell station after school back in 1969 and 1970, until I graduated from High School. This was a very busy station where we were required to give full service for all gasoline sales no matter how small a purchase. Sometimes I'd be out pumping gas for hours at a time, non-stop, we were that busy. The owner didn't pay much, but the experience was priceless.
@williamcharles94808 жыл бұрын
The old cars were dependent on maintainance. There was a grease fitting for just about everything that moved. It wasn't unusual to find at least 10 to 15 grease fittings under the car. You didn't just go down to the parts store to get new set of brake shoes, the repairman would actually rivet new linings onto your old shoes there at the repair shop. This was a major PITA and the asbestos in the linings flew everywhere. Tubes were in all of the tires and if you weren't careful, you'd either pinch a new hole in the tube or find that the air valve had slipped out of the hole in the wheel. You either had to repair the new puncture that you created all over again or pull the tire off of the wheel's bead to relocate that slipped air valve. Without the air valve being in the hole in the wheel, you obviously couldn't get air into the tire. The brand name ESSO stood for Eastern States Standard Oil. This video really brought back some memories, thanks.
@jimb30932 жыл бұрын
Thanks for explaining all that.
@markfortin4214 жыл бұрын
An absolutely mandatory reminder of what we had, and lost, with the invention of planned obsolescence and disposable commodities. Oh well, too late now...✌😔
@samhouston43268 жыл бұрын
My Grandfather owned a gas station in Leonard, Texas that was nothing more than a shack (no floor), one light bulb and one pump. My Father grew up in this Station prior and during the Great Depression.
@robertsmith-dr5tm Жыл бұрын
My next door neighbor when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s owned a Flying A station I remember it so well Hid daughter and I used to walk down to the station and bring him his lunch in his spotless office. Everyone there wore the green uniforms and caps with the Flying A logo
@TheOzthewiz4 жыл бұрын
More appropriately "SERVICE STATIONS", with the emphasis on 'service'!
@MoparMan1320 Жыл бұрын
Sure do miss the days when service stations actually provided service, and not just a bunch of snack junk. That said...the maintenance required on modern vehicles (like my 2015 Challenger w/392 Hemi) is hardy anything, compared to my first car (66' Plymouth Valiant). Thanks for posting!! 👍
@bluetickfreddy1014 жыл бұрын
My grand father was owner operator of service station on long island ny 20’ 30’s Thank you for memory kicker
@hkk36564 жыл бұрын
Mine too.
@jimlaguardia81854 жыл бұрын
I remember filling my tank for $5. Seat belt? What ‘s that? One for the road?
@cbgreenbay9 жыл бұрын
Wish I could go back in time knowing what I know now! And live the rest of my life in that time. I would be so rich and so happy !
@onlythewise13 жыл бұрын
yes and meet Elvis and keneddy
@garymorris18562 жыл бұрын
@@onlythewise1 I met Dwight Eisenhower.
@onlythewise12 жыл бұрын
@@garymorris1856 wow cool my dad did on the iowa battleship when they took him to another country or was that another president .
@garymorris18562 жыл бұрын
@@onlythewise1 I met former president Eisenhower at his museum in Abiline, Kansas in 1966, I was 15.
@onlythewise12 жыл бұрын
@@garymorris1856 thats cool i almost met nixon he live in my area , but not meet anyone important in poltices . Eisenhower was he like lookin important,, i saw Reagan and Bush in a park once doing campain speech, police they stopped all traffic going near the park
@ricardocalderon51054 жыл бұрын
Nice and clean days no graffiti or trash...what happened people?
@merlin66252 жыл бұрын
I took my kids to old timey gas ⛽ stations 🚉 years ago.
@gpdude224 жыл бұрын
I wonder how many of these people made the mandatory $15/hour?
@RICKTUNE4 жыл бұрын
At 1:17 a genuine Shelby GT350 (or at least a lookalike). Sweet.
@geoffreydevore95034 жыл бұрын
Thanks for video!! Keep them rolling!
@theherrdark48344 жыл бұрын
Burning Bridges sung by The Mike Curb Congregation will always make me think of Kelly's Heroes.
@harrybriscoe79484 жыл бұрын
the other song is The Great Escape music
@luisreyes19632 жыл бұрын
@@harrybriscoe7948 By Elmer Bernstein
@jcirvine385 жыл бұрын
Electric car charging stations hold nothing to these service stations!
@stringalongmike19539 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video - very nice!!!
@jamesrussell61232 жыл бұрын
I like looking at the service stations and gas stations and service station signs along with it when I was a little boy
@davehibbs91112 жыл бұрын
8 gallons for a dollar! And now it's $8 dollars for one gallon here in California 👺
@dennisduran85004 жыл бұрын
My check engine light came on sir!
@vanishingruralalberta..can90609 жыл бұрын
very cool...well done
@stansmad2 жыл бұрын
And now we visit these places to get $3.40 cts. a gallon gas, and no service but you can buy fried chicken 🐔 ! Crazy Bob's is the best ! 😋
@zuutlmna5 жыл бұрын
Go back?! How 'bout we just put back!!! stuff that was high quality and otherwise made good sense!!
@scoobycarr55584 жыл бұрын
I know there was ARCO because there was a service station on Hough and Lake in Barrington directly across from the Canteen Restaurant. Now was there a company known as ENCO? Just curious. BTW I used to see ENCO hopper cars on an EJ&E freight train when I was a kid.
@davidgarris25134 жыл бұрын
Grew up in Roselle. Had friends on Cuba road
@surearrow4 жыл бұрын
>> Best photo I've ever seen from the 1930s. :0 >> 1:41
@hkk36564 жыл бұрын
Fill it up with Ethyl ?
@breakerbreakeronenine_8 жыл бұрын
Took me half an hour to watch this..
@rooplaldebideen62918 жыл бұрын
1.42 What a way to sell gasoline!
@chartwel19904 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that image caught my eye as well.
@avalanche9026 Жыл бұрын
Classic American service.
@dfygoh32155 жыл бұрын
:32 $29.95 to paint your car ,,, wow
@onazram14 жыл бұрын
sanding swirls, runs and dust ball's were free
@dementedweasel14 жыл бұрын
Earl Scheib painted any car any color for that much when I was a kid in the 60's. It had to be true as I saw it on TV. Along with The Partridge Family.
@franknew90014 жыл бұрын
@ Christopher Wyller The Partridge Family first aired from 1970 to 1974. Maybe you were watching Ginger and Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island in the 1960's. My dad got his 1958 Oldsmobile Fiesta station wagon painted at Earl Scheib in the mid 1960's.
@connor_flanigan Жыл бұрын
fill it with petroleum distillate and re vulcanize my tires, post haste!!!
@JackF992 жыл бұрын
1:12 random GT350....
@rollingtones13 жыл бұрын
1:46 Really? Wow...
@garyvale83476 жыл бұрын
Title reads 20's through 50's.......... the Mustang and Chevy's in the picture at the 1:12 mark must have gone back in time...................
@GBPackFan625 жыл бұрын
Gary Vale That photo was probably taken sometime in the early '70s, judging by the Mustang and the Mercedes behind it
@gerrilevin2794 жыл бұрын
whitewall tires inner tube --transistor radio 3 bucks
@thewiseguy35292 жыл бұрын
Auto Painting $29.00
@TheFrameoff4 жыл бұрын
Hummm , the girl at 145
@rickj19834 жыл бұрын
That was rather interesting wasn't it? I'm surprised that photo wasn't x-rated in those days.
@TheFrameoff4 жыл бұрын
@@rickj1983 I guess back then people didn't think that way , or people did and it was no big deal ... maybe
@xanlysphynx88392 жыл бұрын
30 bucks for a car
@richardc77214 жыл бұрын
Hate the music. of the 70s The time frame is 20 to 50s why not some music from the time ?