Roy Earle pulls into a gas station and tells the proprietor to give him 10 gallons of gas. Later he gives him a five dollar bill. The guy comes back with change. "41 and this makes it 4 and this makes it 5".
$2.59 for 10 gallons of gas.
Them was the days.
Yeah! "Them was the days"!
And that was at a "Last Chance" station way out in the Sierra boonies!
"Them days" lasted right up to the early 70's. I remember pumping .25/9 gasoline into my 26 mpg VW bug in 1971. And cigarettes were 3 packs for a dollar & beer was $1.15 a sixer! Life WAS good!
Yeah, the station attendant seemed real excited to take in $2.59!
Later, notice how Bogart is irked when he has to pay $.50 for a pack of cigarettes...
The first time I bought a pack of cigarettes (Red Marlboro) in New York City, in 1980, they were $0.75 a pack. Now they are around $14.00, from what I hear : )
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