ultrarunner
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- Cat D3, Deere 110 TLB, Kubota BX23 and L3800 and RTV900 with restored 1948 Deere M, 1949 Farmall Cub, 1953 Ford Jubliee and 1957 Ford 740 Row Crop, Craftsman Mower, Deere 350C Dozer 50 assorted vehicles from 1905 to 2006
As one who is approaching "golden age" (I'm sixty) I remember paying 32 cents average for a gallon of gas. I've seen gas wars where the price was 15 cents/gallon! And I remember being excited to earn $3.60 an hour with a summer government job in 1973! Before that I would cut lawns in the neighborhood for $2 to $3.50 depending on their size. I went to the local savings and loan as a 15 year old (around 1968) and wanted to buy a $1,000 CD; the teller was amazed that someone my age could afford a CD! For me, they were the good old days!!!
The discount station near our home was always 24.9 a gallon for regular around 70-71
I saved and saved to open a CD and the bank branch manager said he would be working for me someday... this was when I was riding a bike and before I was old enough for a Driver's license.
Got a motorcycle permit because it let me drive to school at age 15 1/2.
The last vestiges of that filling station were taken out last year... a trip to the bank has customers talking through plexiglas...
A nearby bank acutally puts customers through a holding cell to enter... you walk in and close the door and then someone inside has to buzz the next door open... this is a big bank... not some out of the way hole in the wall...
Then again, the post office is all plexi glass too.
No matter what anyone says... we did lose going forward.