I remember those days... I worked in a full service gas station on
Lombard Street here in SF in 1976 and we'd have a few tokes and go
joy riding in the restaurant customers cars that would park in our
lot. I wonder if we ever drove by any of the places they were having
dinner... = )

On Jun 29, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:58:02 -0700
> From:    Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: At the pump ...
>
> RE: Self Serve vs. Attendant Pumped Gas
>
> I love this thread.  It comes up about once a year.  Sometimes it
> starts
> with "I'm in Oregon (or New Jersy) and they won't let me pump my
> own gas" or
> it starts "I really miss the old days of full service gas
> stations".  The
> latter always from those of us with thin, gray, or no hair, the
> former from
> the younger generations.  There will be at least one story about the
> attendant that tried to put the gas into the '710' cap in the
> back.  And
> there will be a least one mention of gas in a diesel (talk to Susan on
> WetWesties).  And I could (but won't) tell some tales about car
> owners,
> tales from working in a 'full service' all night station in the mid
> '60's
>
> Yes, times change.  And thank someone the 'good old days' are gone....