Random thoughts

[moreluck]

 

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[oldngray]

 

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[Billy Ray]

Anyone else remember when nothing would be open on Sunday.........

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Anyone else remember when nothing would be open on Sunday.........

Blue laws.

 

[Billy Ray]

Blue laws.

Here, it was just Southern tradition....

 

[moreluck]

Anyone else remember when nothing would be open on Sunday.........

People would actually go to the car lots on Sunday to look around in peace & quiet.....no salesmen to bother them. There was always a chain across the drive but you could step over it.....just couldn't drive onto the lot. Plenty of street parking on a Sunday.

 

[Billy Ray]

People would actually go to the car lots on Sunday to look around in peace & quiet.....no salesmen to bother them. There was always a chain across the drive but you could step over it.....just couldn't drive onto the lot. Plenty of street parking on a Sunday.

There was a time here when you couldn't even buy gasoline.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

In NJ it is illegal to pump your own gas.

 

[oldngray]

I remember gas stations were one of the few places open. The big chain gas stations that is. The mom and pop ones were closed.

 

[oldngray]

There was no self serve gas here then either. All full serve. Then to stations with option of full serve or self serve which was a little cheaper. Then to current virtually all self serve.

 

[Billy Ray]

There were no big chain gas stations here.

You might as well go to church, because there wasn't any where else to go.

Ghost town.......

 

[Billy Ray]

There was no self serve gas here then either. All full serve. Then to stations with option of full serve or self serve which was a little cheaper. Then to current virtually all self serve.

Run over the hose, bell would ring, here they came.
Someone now would think they were about to be carjacked.

 

[Rainman]

Run over the hose, bell would ring, here they came.
Someone now would think they were about to be carjacked.

Run out, fill your tank, wash your windshield and rear glass, and thank you for coming in.

 

[oldngray]

Run out, fill your tank, wash your windshield and rear glass, and thank you for coming in.

check your oil and tire pressure too

 

[Billy Ray]

Run out, fill your tank, wash your windshield and rear glass, and thank you for coming in.

.....also check your oil level, sometimes you got some type of giveaway with a fill-up.

 

[Billy Ray]

Had the metal case sitting on the pump island that held oil cans. When is the last time you saw oil in a can?

..... and the gas pumps with the lighted glass globe on top.

 

[oldngray]

Had the metal case sitting on the pump island that held oil cans. When is the last time you saw oil in a can?

..... and the gas pumps with the lighted glass globe on top.

and air was free?