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Self Serve my ass..! They used to be service stations

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I remember hitting the local Service station with my Dad back in the 60's and we would have 3 guys working on the car.

One checking oil.
One checking air pressure.
Once pumping.

Once the oil/tire was checked they moved onto washing windows and such.

Gas was all of 20 cents a gallon and the attendants were clean and happy to be of service. His choice was a 76 station, which looked a lot like the one below. It still exists today.

How times has changed.. now you do the work and check your own shit when and if you want and some guy sits inside a store selling Red Bulls.

A lot of you guys probably have never seen what a Service station really is.
 

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budman said:
I remember hitting the local Service station with my Dad back in the 60's and we would have 3 guys working on the car.

One checking oil.
One checking air pressure.
Once pumping.

Once the oil/tire was checked they moved onto washing windows and such.

Gas was all of 20 cents a gallon and the attendants were clean and happy to be of service. His choice was a 76 station, which looked a lot like the one below. It still exists today.

How times has changed.. now you do the work and check your own shit when and if you want and some guy sits inside a store selling Red Bulls.

A lot of you guys probably have never seen what a Service station really is.
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Ya old fart.
I remember when gas was 19 cents a gallon! :afm199
 
If we still had service stations like that as the norm, they'd be staffed by snot nose teens. I don't want some high school dummy pumping my gas, not to mention touching my engine and telling me I need to add more 710 fluid.
 
My first bike that I took to the Kawata Bros. 76 station was at 25cents a gallon.

and yeah Bruce... :afm199 no doubt

I went to a memorial for a friends Dad yesterday driving by the station.. still looks much the same. Did not have the clutter of old shit vehicles I see at so man Valero stations... they must be a rust magnet.
 
Move to Oregon and quit your bitch'n
 
The Shell station on Sharron Park off Sand Hill has a full service lane. I think it works out to well over $.50/gallon compared to doing it yourself at another gas station. Aside from remote spots like Big Sur and the like, that's the most expensive place I know.
 
The only other job I've ever had besides *finance* was pumping gas at a full service 76 in San Louis Obispo. People used to come there from all over to get their gas pumped, windows washed, oil checked and filled, water checked and filled, and air in tires. The other guys I worked with were very competitive about the customers. Everyone wanted the blonde babe in the convertible corvette, and also the old couple because they would tip well. It was a lot of fun working there, and the pay was good for a 18yo guy going to school. I have many memories from that job.
 
Ok you old farts do you remember saving your lunch money for saturday night beer!

If I remember it was 3.50 to 4.00 a case and a fiver would fill her up, good to go.:twofinger:twofinger:twofinger
 
Man, I had gas station steak knives and glass tumblers that lasted well into the 80s. The cheapest I remember was 29 cents a gallon at Terrible Herbst in Martinez. Full service.
 
Yep, got into a pump tug-o-war up in Oregon with the station attendant. He's like,"What are you doing?" "I'm trying to fill up!" "We do that for you here!" "????" As I drove off I distinctly heard,"Fucking Californians!"
 
I hear ya budman, kind of like Safeways and Home Depots doing the same thing, charging you to do everything yourself, soon there will be no bagger and no checkers, used to be a liveable wage job!
I went into the Safeway in Dublin no long ago, pretty close to the Corporate Headquarters also, store is open very early morning, freight being thrown, shelves being stocked, ever so slowly btw, palletboards and cardboard strewn all about, little room for the customer to move a cart, not a one of the workers understood English when asking for a checker to ring us up lol!
Flashback to 1979-80 I was throwing that freight for Lucky's every night when the stores were closed, earning journeyman's wages and enough for a one bedroom in east Oakland with a Toyota camry to boot! That same job now being done for the same wage by workers who don't even savvy the language, though not pointing fingers at them here.:mad
 
I wish I could use self check outs more but I always have beer or liquor in my basket and need a real person for that.
 
budman said:
I remember hitting the local Service station with my Dad back in the 60's and we would have 3 guys working on the car.

One checking oil.
One checking air pressure.
Once pumping.

Once the oil/tire was checked they moved onto washing windows and such.

Gas was all of 20 cents a gallon and the attendants were clean and happy to be of service. His choice was a 76 station, which looked a lot like the one below. It still exists today.

How times has changed.. now you do the work and check your own shit when and if you want and some guy sits inside a store selling Red Bulls.

A lot of you guys probably have never seen what a Service station really is.
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Yeah (I worked in a service station in 1960) But...All in all, part of the times have changed,
has brought us the motorcycles we couldn't even dream of In 1960 :) :afm199 :ride
 
The gas station I worked at as a teen had Full AND Mini Service. No self service at all! Mini service eventually changed to self service. Now the station is pay at the pump and pump your own gas.
 
budman said:
I remember hitting the local Service station with my Dad back in the 60's and we would have 3 guys working on the car.

One checking oil.
One checking air pressure.
Once pumping.

Once the oil/tire was checked they moved onto washing windows and such.

Gas was all of 20 cents a gallon and the attendants were clean and happy to be of service. His choice was a 76 station, which looked a lot like the one below. It still exists today.

How times has changed.. now you do the work and check your own shit when and if you want and some guy sits inside a store selling Red Bulls.

A lot of you guys probably have never seen what a Service station really is.
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I wonder how the numbers changed to make it no longer profitable?
 
budman said:
I remember hitting the local Service station with my Dad back in the 60's and we would have 3 guys working on the car.

One checking oil.
One checking air pressure.
Once pumping.

Once the oil/tire was checked they moved onto washing windows and such.

Gas was all of 20 cents a gallon and the attendants were clean and happy to be of service. His choice was a 76 station, which looked a lot like the one below. It still exists today.

How times has changed.. now you do the work and check your own shit when and if you want and some guy sits inside a store selling Red Bulls.

A lot of you guys probably have never seen what a Service station really is.
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... and THESE!

(I remember my mother making my dad go way out of his way to get gas at stations that had the stamps so she could get dinner ware or some such household item.)
 

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Oh yeah. Forgot.

I would get some filling my mini bike And bring them home to Mom. :cool

Thanks John. Good memory.

Having guys to full service on a Yamaha mini Enduro was priceless. :laughing
 
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