----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike" <mbucchino@charter.net>
To: "Old Volks Home" <oldvolkshome@GMAIL.COM>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: Re: At the pump ...

> They still have plenty of all of these types of gas stations here in New
> England........
>
> Mike B.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Old Volks Home" <oldvolkshome@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 6:48 PM
> Subject: Re: At the pump ...
>
>
>> They probably didn't say much, if anything.  Full service was the norm,
>> taken for granted up until the 60s, then the griping started when a self
>> serve island appeared :-)
>>
>> Useta be one island was self-serve and the other island was full-serve.
>> The
>> price of gas was a few cents cheeper on the self serve island.  But as
>> "service stations" became a thing of the past in the late 70s, it went to
>> full blown self-serve.  I should know, I was a gas pump jockey in my
>> teens
>> (when I felt like making a buck) growing up in sunny Southern Cal.
>> --
>> Jim Thompson
>> 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
>> 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
>> 73 K Ghia Coupe "Denise"
>> 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
>> oldvolkshome@gmail.com
>> http://www.oldvolkshome.com
>> ***********************************
>> On 6/29/07, Zoltan <zolo@foxinternet.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I wonder, what the people said those days about the good old days that
>>> were
>>> before.  -:))
>>> Zoltan
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Todd Last" <rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET>
>>> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>>> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 2:37 PM
>>> Subject: Re: At the pump ...
>>>
>>>
>>> > What I think is criminal is the self-serve stations (and even the
>>> stations
>>> > in OR) not offering any air for your tires, or charging 50 cents for a
>>> few
>>> > seconds of pump time (usually with a broken fitting on the hose.)
>>> >
>>> > Also criminal how the major oil companies are pushing policies to
>>> > force
>>> > the independent station operators out of business.
>>> >
>>> > Anyway,
>>> >
>>> > I'm old enough to remember full-service stations when they really
>>> offered
>>> > full service (gas, check oil, water, and battery, air in your tires),
>>> gave
>>> > you green stamps and other giveaways just to get you to fill-up at
>>> > their
>>> > stations.
>>> >
>>> > ah, the good old days....  :-)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Todd
>>> > '88 westy
>>>
>>
>