I remember when..............

I remember gasoline below .25 that's "a quarter." I grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, and Newport WA and Oldtown, ID are just across a short bridge, the state line. WA always has had higher fuel taxes, and stations up there used to have "border wars."

Remember when Chevron had THREE pumps? "Custom Super Supreme" in the white pump? We'd get two, three of us, and drive from Sandpoint to Oldtown to fill up our cars because,,,,,,,.......a 283 power pack HAS to have the VERY HIGHEST octane, doncha know.

THREE channels? Hell we lived "in a hole." My home town was a BADLY spotty "long fringe area" and at our house, we got ONE channel snow free. 2, back then was ABC, and 6, NBC, were incredibly snowy and nearly unwatchable much of the time. Yup. "black and white."

Gunsmoke, "Have gun will Travel" and "The Honeymooners."

My Mom was ALWAYS goin' around getting "a dollars worth" of gas.

Here's a story. One family had the local "off breed" car dealership. They had tried everything that failed, Kaiser, Hudson, Nash, etc, and ended up with Chrysler, and sometime during when I was in the Navy, Datsun, one of their smarter moves at the right time.

So BEFORE I went into the Navy, so, about 67, the owner and head of the family was out of town for a weekend. They had a NICE 65? El Camino with a 365 hp 327 and 4 speed in the thing, and one of the sons had a 55 Chev that was just BEGGIN for an engine. YOU GUESSED IT. The son went right in the shop on the weekend, yanked the engine out of the El Camino and dumped it into the 55. Now you cannot PUT a 55 Chev engine back into an El Camino, because a 55--57 engine block does not have the side mount motor mount bosses. So, they found ANOTHER third car, yanked the 283 out of it, and dumped it and a 3 speed into the El Camino, THEN haywired the 55's 265 into the THIRD car.

I have no idea if or when the "old man" found out about that, but it sure woke up that little 55