that's what happens when u huff to much leaded fuel over 25 years. remember..these gas pumps don't have vapor recovery systems. The gas was noxious. The cars had blo by tubes.Then you have the kids dropping deuces in the toilets and never flush.used paper towels strewn everywhere.At the end of the day..he has to clean it up to keep his ESSO franchise open.Yup...he has a right to be grumpy !
When I was a kid in the mid 1970's, the roads were somewhat busy during the day but after 9:00pm, the roads would be empty. On Christmas day the roads were dead all day. Now, there is traffic 24 hours per day and 7 days per week. I live in a small town now and the roads are busy even at 11:00pm and probably later.
Same here, I grew up in Miami Florida in the 60's and 70's and I remember when the Palmetto Expressway had no traffic on Sundays. Now there is heavy traffic 24/7 and it is a parking lot during rush hour. Wish I was back in the 60's!
I remember those days like it was a wonderful dream, driving someplace with my parents in the front seat and me standing up in the back, behind my parents like these kids, gas station attendants in uniforms... movie theaters were like palaces, it was a wonderful time for a kid in the early 1950s!
More than free air, at least there were nozzles still attached and not cut cleanly off by some jitbag drug addict recycling metal. Yea - I live in a major u.s. city. You can just forget about using a public air machine. 0% chance of finding a working one within 50 miles.
Ralph Reyes there was plenty of traffic and road rage has nothing to do with traffic. Traffic in Western Europe is much heavier than in America and without road rage
Hey, Lincoln. When you talk about real road rage visit the videos of Russian drivers. This business of putting down America for whatever the reason is already passé. Stay in "Western Europe" if you like and enjoy the Muslim invasion. BTW, that name is too big for ya.
We have road rage today because many people don’t know how to drive and are doing everything but paying attention and driving. I have been driving for 50 years and what I see gets worse every year. Eating, texting, drinking, all at the same time as they drive. Then when the light turns green and they don’t go, they give you the finger for giving a little tap of the horn.
@Jeff Rasberry Not according to this video. Look at it and then say they were clean. The toilet was left un-flushed with crap in it and the protector left on the toilet seat.
You are aware that the man in the video likely served in World War II and was probably terrified for months that he'd get gunned down somewhere overseas, right?
+rob lol, ya, with your government mandated insurance and government mandated driver's license(not all states required licenses in the '40s), so, no, you don't, not without government approval.
Do you really think this country would be better if people were driving around without licenses or insurance? Have you ever been hit by an uninsured motorist? It sucks. Being irresponsible isn't the same thing as freedom. If you hate having insurance, move to New Hampshire.
+rob what are you talking about? People do that NOW! As you just proved. And a lot of them aren't even citizens. Only certain people are, in fact, really required by law to do those things. The rest rarely see any significant punishment. And insurance companies are the reason the costs get jacked up, which works to their advantage because it forces more people to buy insurance. Costs don't affect them because they just pass it on to the customer. People are just too gullible to figure it out. You want to stop accidents? That's easy: jail time. It's amazing how motivating sitting in a cell is to some people. The others, well, they get a few chances and then that cell becomes their retirement home. If you think that's too much, then you don't see it as very important and you should just learn to suck it up and pay your own bills.
Esso is apart Exxon and Mobil. Esso was apart of Standard oil of New Jersey and Mobil was Standard oil of New York. Two of the biggest parts of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard oil trust at one time. The trust was broken up in 1911.
I wish I could lip read. Wonder what the lady said at the end. Sadly none of these adults are alive. The kids I'm sure are. Wish I could come across a comment "THAT'S ME!" in one of these videos. Would be so cool.
You got that right. Two things I won't allow. One is to look at my cell phone while I am driving and the other is digital clocks. So many kids today are unable to read an analog clock. It kills me. In my house and on my wrist are analog clocks only. What a dumb society we created, smart phones and now dumb people. Sad...
I remember standing in a convertible, holding onto the windshield, flying down the road. Well, maybe it wasn't as fast as I thought. It was 1965 and I was 8.
Wow it really was nice for Americans back then. In my country of Poland we just got done getting attacked by Germans and then the USSR swooped in to add insult to injury. Still, I miss the warm culture of people and real interactions that today's over saturation of technology prevents. Even in the 80's nobody in Polska had gaming systems or computers. We just had locally produced communist Fiat 126p cars that sold like hot cakes but communism meant waiting lists and ridiculous resale values. You were lucky to even get a Russian made RUBIN color TV set for your tiny soviet high-rise apartment, yet alone a telephone. My parents would "call" their friends by yelling at each other through open windows!
Andy Paterson Robb is talking about life under communism., Not life in general back in 1940s America which was better than today. Much Freer, much simpler and people were a lot more united simply As Americans respecting each other's rights than they are today.😉
@@desertodavid Ha ha. I am European and remember communism and the cars he is talking about etc, but 1940s life in America was not better. It's a common mistake to make that things just happen to have been better a generation or two ago and that things have declined since the times of one's grandparents. You can check the standards of living and the availability of educational opportunities and travel opportunities and food cost and healthcare and human rights and life expectancy etc. There was still segregation in the south in a land that had a Constitution declaring all men to have been created equal, for example. If you feel unhappy about the present day, it's an error to decide things were better at some other time. The evidence doesn't support that view.
Maroon convertible is a 1941 Chevrolet. Filthy restroom! Texaco at that time had registered restroom inspectors that visited Texaco stations to inspect their stations for cleanliness.
Travis Bickle You're exactly right, Travis. Most "filling stations", or "service stations" as they were called then, to the best of my memory, were clean and the attendants were clean-cut, courteous, AND very hard-working. I miss those days. There's a LOT of things I miss from the past, or as some people say, "the good old days".😂You have a great day!👍🇺🇸
Travis Bickle You're making me hungry, talking bout those special-built German-made sandwiches. lol I grew up in the country, and not to far from our place was a small cafe operated by an sweet, elderly couple. They made absolutely the biggest hamburger you ever saw, and when they "built" your chocolate malt, they would fill a glass with it, but the tin can they made the malt in was still bout 1/3rd full. So it was like getting TWO malts. lol. Yes, like yours, those are very fond memories. The music too, IMO, was, unlike today's so-called music, GREAT. This is probably a stupid question, but since you mention Milwaukee, were you a Packers fan?
Travis Bickle A Presidential citation for your father and his battalion.... that is awesome. God bless your dad for his bravery and service for our America. I'm sorry for your medical condition. I will pray for you. Your Packers, with Bart Starr & SO MANY other Packer greats, many times left me brokenhearted after beating my Cowboys time after time in the 1960s. IMO, the Lombardi-era Packers were the greatest team in NFL history. I would give anything to be able to see Lambeau Field. Travis, my friend, you take care of yourself.
When a time of motoring was pleasant and had was easy to find and off you went again. Back when pretty much every auto manufacturer had V8s on their lineups and were cheap even for their time!
In the mid 1960s a Buick which was at the level of a Mercedes could be had for about $4000. That in today's money would be about $13,000. Just think about that.
@@reesedaniel5835 I think we could reduce the population without killing anyone by encouraging people to have less kids Infinite population growth on a planet with finite space resources and importantly food isnt a great idea and i think bringing the population to a stable rate is something we need to do
@@user-xg8yy7yl1d dude what the hell is this. The only people that are having less kids are white people. Every other ethic group are popping out baby's left and right and get government backing. Its so bad that whites will be a minority by 2045. How about we stop immigration completely and see how that turns out. Also kick out the 30mil-50mil illegals.
When my father was born in 1942 in Florida, there were only 1.9 million people. The roads were not busy and life moved at a slower pace. Today Florida has 21 million people, more than 10 times the population.
My guess this is a clip for Esso dealers on how not to run their stations. The beginning shows what a dealer should do and the end shows what definitely not to do. Be friendly and have clean restrooms is what I take from this; the guy at the end definitely doesn't live by that model.
I was in a grocery store yesterday and the men's room was nicer than the BRs in my own house: beautiful tile, marble, fixtures, etc. and perfectly clean. Haven't seen the inside of one at a gas station in decades.
My small town was behind the times in the 1960s & 70s, so it still looked & seemed like this. People looked this way too. Just with a few newer cars around. I miss the Texaco man & tidy people in uniform who smelled like sweat, natural fresh tobacco, leather, soil, work & oil. People weren't sanitized (though that old bathroom needed to be lol) & we all smelled & lived as our individual selves more! This is amazing. We enjoy this & may not even stop to think how difficult it was to even make this footage back then? Is this colorized? It's wonderful!
Noticed that the pricing on the gas pump only goes to 99.9 cents per gallon. It wasn’t until the first oil shortage in the 70’s that pumps had to register a dollar or more. It was a real transition when gas went to $1.09. Per gallon thanks to the first contrived shortage. When pump prices rose to over a dollar all those tankers floating in the Gulf of Mexico with Saudi oil suddenly headed for the refineries.
Brilliant !. Just like going back in time, could watch this for hours. Those kids enjoying standing in the back would definitely attract a pull over by the Police now.
Toyota1949 the "Eisenhower highway system" (Interstates) were designed from pre WWII autobahn. Volkswagen (people's car) was also another program to create jobs. it was modeled after Ford's model T, production line wise. both were to make cheap cars poor people could afford.
+Wayne Winston The autobahn pre ww2 was just an idea. There was a few roads that were built across germany but it was not a complete networked system like today. Pre ww2 America had similar ideas but again not widespread.
I remember those days at gas stations service with a smile. Super service my father worked at one part time. Those days are long gone sure miss those days
@@DKingd88 Sounds like you're quite the authority here! I am humbled by your wisdom -- as exhibited by your detection of social climbing phony aristocrats and the confirmation of graffiti proliferating the US inner cities, circa 1946. Please offer more detail, your highness -- as the opportunity to learn from a sage is surely welcomed.
@@pacz8114 Are you not familiar with "Keeping up with the Joneses?" The postwar period and the rise of the middle class and suburbia led to a consumerist arms race among neighbors, which the WW2 generation was wary of, having lived through the depression. It ultimately bankrupted a bountifully prosperous nation....
I still remember riding in the back seat of my dad's 1953 Plymouth. I couldn't have been more than 3 or 4 because I was small enough to climb onto the package shelf and take a nap. I don't think cars have package shelves any more.
Throughout all our family vacations through the 1960's and 70's, I never went into ANY restroom that looked like that, at roadside rest stops, at old gas stations, at fastfood places, nowhere, retail stores, restaurants, zoos, city parks, amusement parks, national parks and national forest latrines. Throughout the entire west from San Diego, through California, inland and coastal, all the way up to Vancouver, British Colombia, from the Dakotas down through Texas and all the states between, from Banff to Calgary to Denver to Arizona and New Mexico, I never saw that, and there were lots of driving vacations for months every year. Driving into Arkansas and up through all of the states of the Great Plains of the Midwest, I never saw that. People had PERSONAL DIGNITY to leave things in order, and public restrooms had hourly cleaning schedules that hung on the inside of the door, so the public could see when it was cleaned and by what employee. People had whatever measure of self-discipline and understanding not to trash restrooms like that: they were nothing like what we see today. Don't believe that part of this video. The first messy public restroom I ever saw was in the 1980's at a nightclub. All the stores and restaurants I worked in, their restrooms never looked like that either.
Your right CA Catr! Growing up in the 60's and 70's my Dad had a Sunoco gas station on a main 2 lane route & of course I got to clean the bathroom's!!! Never ever looked like that in the video!! And later on my brother & I had a Texaco gas station & YES there was schedule as to who was & did clean the bathroom!!! I miss those days & my Dad! People would come in down on their luck with a carload of runny nose little kids & my Dad would help them out with gas or even tires!!! By gone era for sure!!
Dante E the reason why America cant maintain roads is clear. Have you looked into how much money US gives to Israel, Egypt and Jordan every year based on the agreement from 1975? Almost 6 billion a year. Have you ever seen one Republican or Democrat say wtf! Nope. But the average American is brainwashed but only if they even read about stuff like this
Dang ... who knew the 40’s were banging with that music ? No wonder my grandad ( who was born in 32) was such a good jazz musician - primarily pianist .. although he could play guitar and any percussion instrument like nobody’s business , too. Wow .. funny how we don’t think to connect dots or even ask questions to our elders , when we reek it could’ve stood to learn and benefit from so much they’ve had to say of their time before gracing our lives & making them better by being there ... suddenly I’m missing my grandparents in ways i dont even know how to put in words ! I loved them dearly when they were in this world but I just really Miss them after this ... and my parents don’t have much longer to really connect and ask things about their own time either. Better get on it ! They’re prob. Gunna look at me like I’m crazy... interruption the games on their phones and what not 😂meanwhile me:I wanna know everything about your past , dang it ! Them :🙄😳...
20 cents a gallon, that would probably have been about right back then. I don't believe the last section with the dirty restrooms was part of the original film. Someone threw that in to be funny.
Gappie Al Kebabi what i wrote wasn’t a compliant, just a comment on the times we now live in. Obviously you don’t understand American tongue-in-cheek humor. Relax
With inflation, 20 cents a gallon comes out to just about $2.85 today. Guess what, you can actually get gas at that price this very day as long as you stay the hell away from Cali-Shit-fornia
Your right Fred!! When my Dad had a Sunoco gas station back in the 60's and 70's he'd tell me & my brother, you smile & say yes sir, yes mam!! And even if they only want 50 cents worth of gas you " CLEAN THEIR WINDSHIELD "!!! And if I didn't there would be hell to pay!!!
The film is amazing quality someone must of had an amazing camera then, it's amazing how everyone had a job everyone worked it was all about service and family fun I would to go back in time
Frank Biz, Road rage has nothing to do with the driving ability, it has everything to do with the children of America rarely if ever being said no to. These children grow up and think the world should cater to their every whim. It’s rage everywhere in public places,restaurants, airports, grocery stores, office buildings. You don’t see this rage in other countries, certainly not in Western Europe.
As you may know, to obtain ones drivers' licence (license) in western-Europe isn't too easy. Ie; After passing the 'knowledge ('written') test, to get your 'full license' to drive, you take the driving on the road test w/a professional instuctor.. If and when you pass your test in an 'automatic' trans' car, this limits you, as you're not legal to drive a vehicle w/a manual 'box. But take and pass the driving test in a manual-then you're legal to drive either.. Have to admit, when driving there, this 'training' manifested itself in better communication between fellow motorists and an overall greater respect of other drivers,' too.
Lincoln Paul - you are so right! When I was growing up if I misbehaved I got a good whack on the bottom and that was enough to set me straight. None of this “time out” nonsense or trying to “reason” with a misbehaving child. I was taught respect for my elders, respect for my country, respect for my teachers, etc. I never threw a tantrum because I knew my parents would smack the hell out of me. And deservedly so. When my mother or father said “no,” that was it. No whining, no crying, no pouting, no pleading; No means no. I turned out fine, and my three adult children are happy, successful and well-adjusted members of society. Children need love but they also need boundaries, limits. Once in a while when a child tests your limits he or she may need a little “reminder” of where those limits are.
Andy Burk I'm amazed at people today young parents in their twenties and thirties that don't even know they're being manipulated by their kids. It's very sad to watch because these kids are going to grow up without any discipline or respect for others. This is the main problem we have in society today lack of respect for others.
Hmmm. That filling station attendant doesn't seem so eager to please. I guess he's already discovered that the new prosperity wasn't to include him....
Gappie, you have a valid point. Perhaps the best solution is to study something that will get you a fairly good position in the endless struggle for money.Also, study something that you really love......that might benefit the situation I wrote about above.Example......Get a business administration degree....plus, study a foreign language. Learn it to fluency. Go to that country....maybeteach English (if you're from the US.) Who know what opportunitiesmay arise.Or...….try to get a wealthy family to adopt you and will afford you allof the crazy studies your heart desires.
Gappie, don't be dumb in your career selection. Don't spend 200K for a major in underwater basket weaving. If you major in a liberal arts field, understand that you're up against a lot of competition, so you'd better be at the top of your game. Don't throw all of your money away at a private 4 year school. Go to a local community college for an Associates, then transfer to a public or private 4 year. Join the military and let them train you, or at least use their educational benefits to pay for your schooling. Or, don't go to college at all. The Trades need people for all of the Boomers who will be retiring in the next few years. Society still needs electricians, roofers, plumbers, etc. Those guys make a decent wage without any college debt. Be smart about it and you wont be as financially hard up as you think. Bottom line, if you sit on your ass and complain about how hard life is, you'll still be sitting there whining about how unfair it is that people who worked hard got further in life than you did.
It all looks so peaceful. They didn't have to face traffic jams, constant car honking and what not. You could actually appreciate the beauty of open roads on sunny days unlike.
![Wonderful California 40's in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/WBcGKLzDZuQ/mqdefault.jpg)
That gas station attendant didn’t look to pleased to be there.
Kekmeister Biped. Yes, he worked there to long. Retirement is on the way. Drive to 🇨🇦Canada old man and 💆relax. Spend some $'s.
Talk about a grump, geesh !!!
mr. gas guy, check the oil, pump up the front tire, wash my windshield, and 5 cents worth of gas please.
I agree. He looked like people of today (with the sour, over worked expression).
that's what happens when u huff to much leaded fuel over 25 years. remember..these gas pumps don't have vapor recovery systems. The gas was noxious. The cars had blo by tubes.Then you have the kids dropping deuces in the toilets and never flush.used paper towels strewn everywhere.At the end of the day..he has to clean it up to keep his ESSO franchise open.Yup...he has a right to be grumpy !
When I was a kid in the mid 1970's, the roads were somewhat busy during the day but after 9:00pm, the roads would be empty. On Christmas day the roads were dead all day. Now, there is traffic 24 hours per day and 7 days per week. I live in a small town now and the roads are busy even at 11:00pm and probably later.
Josephalfonso Amantia too many people
Obama brought in 30 million illegals.
Same here. Most people I went to school with already have 2-3 kids before they were in their 20s so it’s only going to get worse.
The still are closed Sunday in Bergen County, NJ. Try going to Garden State Plaza on a Sunday...
Same here, I grew up in Miami Florida in the 60's and 70's and I remember when the Palmetto Expressway had no traffic on Sundays. Now there is heavy traffic 24/7 and it is a parking lot during rush hour. Wish I was back in the 60's!
My dad was only 3 years old...I miss him more than I can say
say what?
My grandpa 4
Living without your parents is really lonely, isn't it?
Wish it was longer. What a great clip.
So do I.
@@ApartmentKing66 I remember the Sinclair stations ,not too many left east of the Mississippi River
Free air in tires,the kids standing.A bygone era never to be seen again😎
For good reason - one become a projectile in any accident and usually ends up decapitated.
I remember those days like it was a wonderful dream, driving someplace with my parents in the front seat and me standing up in the back, behind my parents like these kids, gas station attendants in uniforms... movie theaters were like palaces, it was a wonderful time for a kid in the early 1950s!
William schlenger - I know a gas station in town with free air, and a service garage connected to it.
+oldtwins ya, now you just get decapitated by the airbags, lol.
More than free air, at least there were nozzles still attached and not cut cleanly off by some jitbag drug addict recycling metal. Yea - I live in a major u.s. city. You can just forget about using a public air machine. 0% chance of finding a working one within 50 miles.
it's incredible to me how they could get this kind of image quality in 1946
Movie film... look at something like the Wizard of Oz, it was from almost a decade earlier.
Real quality lenses back then...
Ummm..35mm film through the best motion picture cameras of the time makes for beautiful images. Long before digital this was the standard.
Dammnn No traffic at all so peaceful to drive back then no road rage or anything like that
Ralph Reyes there was plenty of traffic but rarely road rage
Ralph Reyes there was plenty of traffic and road rage has nothing to do with traffic. Traffic in Western Europe is much heavier than in America and without road rage
Hey, Lincoln. When you talk about real road rage visit the videos of Russian drivers. This business of putting down America for whatever the reason is already passé. Stay in "Western Europe" if you like and enjoy the Muslim invasion.
BTW, that name is too big for ya.
We have road rage today because many people don’t know how to drive and are doing everything but paying attention and driving. I have been driving for 50 years and what I see gets worse every year. Eating, texting, drinking, all at the same time as they drive. Then when the light turns green and they don’t go, they give you the finger for giving a little tap of the horn.
Thomas H - In the end, it was clear that Germany and Japan were the big winners of WW2....
The world’s come so far.
Well, except with regards to public toilets.
How? What’s different
Toby Wood there were a lot of ky jelly back then
Toby Wood & kids riding unrestrained , standing up in the backseat of a convertible 😂
@Blair Aquilia And that's a good thing
@Blair Aquilia You should feel bad for the women who weren't allowed to use the bathroom because they have a penis
Looks like bathrooms haven't changed that much
Nothing wrong with the bathrooms per se...but those disgusting thing called homo sapiens...
@Jeff Rasberry 1:39
@Jeff Rasberry Not according to this video. Look at it and then say they were clean. The toilet was left un-flushed with crap in it and the protector left on the toilet seat.
Atleast they didn't have used needles from junkies.
They could never have imagined how lucky and free they were. And how envious we would be.
only if you're white tho
Ok boomer
You are aware that the man in the video likely served in World War II and was probably terrified for months that he'd get gunned down somewhere overseas, right?
@@danielmandoki5376 Well in all honesty, Africa was just as garbage in 1946 as it is now. So yeah, your correct ;).
@@bobby2pistolz854 he's talking about afroamericans in US don't play stupid you know what's he/she talking about
So *THAT'S* what freedom looks like. I've never seen it before.
You have liberalism to thank for the disappearance of freedom! Never vote Democrat!
Uh, you still have the freedom to drive down the road and go to a gas station. Do you really not know that?
+rob lol, ya, with your government mandated insurance and government mandated driver's license(not all states required licenses in the '40s), so, no, you don't, not without government approval.
Do you really think this country would be better if people were driving around without licenses or insurance? Have you ever been hit by an uninsured motorist? It sucks. Being irresponsible isn't the same thing as freedom.
If you hate having insurance, move to New Hampshire.
+rob what are you talking about? People do that NOW! As you just proved. And a lot of them aren't even citizens. Only certain people are, in fact, really required by law to do those things. The rest rarely see any significant punishment. And insurance companies are the reason the costs get jacked up, which works to their advantage because it forces more people to buy insurance. Costs don't affect them because they just pass it on to the customer. People are just too gullible to figure it out.
You want to stop accidents? That's easy: jail time. It's amazing how motivating sitting in a cell is to some people. The others, well, they get a few chances and then that cell becomes their retirement home. If you think that's too much, then you don't see it as very important and you should just learn to suck it up and pay your own bills.
1:30 - 1:50 some things never change.
The "Esso" service station is now called Exxon Mobil here in the US for those wondering. :)
Esso is still in Canada.
Esso is apart Exxon and Mobil. Esso was apart of Standard oil of New Jersey and Mobil was Standard oil of New York. Two of the biggest parts of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard oil trust at one time. The trust was broken up in 1911.
Esso is actually the phonetic spelling of Standard oil. SO.
@@frankgarrett9500 - Thanks for the info..I always wondered what it meant !
this serviceman was ugly...
Bad-lip reading
Attendant at 1:04 : "Asshole."
Customer: "Blah blah blah blah blah."
Attendant: "Yeah whatever."
Lol that’s exactly what it looked like he said 😂
LJ Andrewes hahaaaaaa yep
I wish I could lip read. Wonder what the lady said at the end.
Sadly none of these adults are alive. The kids I'm sure are.
Wish I could come across a comment "THAT'S ME!" in one of these videos. Would be so cool.
LJ Andrewes hahahaha!!!
Strange. The driver actually looking at the road & NOT at stupid cell phone.
T4TEXASTOM JOHNNYCAT haven’t seen that since ‘07
DodgeGuy67
You are sure right! 👍😅
T4TEXASTOM JOHNNYCAT I feel old lmao and I’m only 22
T4TEXASTOM JOHNNYCAT 😀wow! That's 👍👉right! No distracting driving= less trouble.
Great vid and musick. Thank you.
You got that right. Two things I won't allow. One is to look at my cell phone while I am driving and the other is digital clocks. So many kids today are unable to read an analog clock. It kills me. In my house and on my wrist are analog clocks only. What a dumb society we created, smart phones and now dumb people. Sad...
Born in 70 unfortunatly I missed those days ! Hear my dads talk about those days, wish I was there ! 👍🏻
But I do have a piece of those days ! I have a 46 Chevy business coupe ! 👍🏻
Wow this is 71 years ago
Make that 73 years ago.
@@scottmorrison466 Make that 75 years ago. Tempus Fugit.
76 years ago lol
I remember standing in a convertible, holding onto the windshield, flying down the road. Well, maybe it wasn't as fast as I thought. It was 1965 and I was 8.
Your parents must have given you hell for stealing the car!
ok boomer
1:40 - The public restrooms in 1946 are the same as those in 2019; nasty.
I wish my dad was still alive to see this video. I'm sure he would have lots of stories to tell of those days.
Nice piece until the bathroom scenes!
newerafrican...that’s one thing that hasn’t changed! Most gas station bathrooms you go into are nasty!
True that. It's usually better to NOT wash your hands as they are probably cleaner than any surface in there!!
That is why I must rather go in the woods.
@@Lalvon_Zelpharr Yeah, to clean up. So the really did want them.
America's finest decade . Downhill since
Nowdays you could be driving in the middle of the Mohave dessert and look in your rearview mirror at 2 am and someone would be tailgating you.
I thought i was crazy. More cars and more people. Maxing out our roads
Wow it really was nice for Americans back then. In my country of Poland we just got done getting attacked by Germans and then the USSR swooped in to add insult to injury. Still, I miss the warm culture of people and real interactions that today's over saturation of technology prevents. Even in the 80's nobody in Polska had gaming systems or computers. We just had locally produced communist Fiat 126p cars that sold like hot cakes but communism meant waiting lists and ridiculous resale values. You were lucky to even get a Russian made RUBIN color TV set for your tiny soviet high-rise apartment, yet alone a telephone. My parents would "call" their friends by yelling at each other through open windows!
Poland First. America First. Leave the EU.
Yep, the "good old days" 😉
Andy Paterson
Robb is talking about life under communism., Not life in general back in 1940s America which was better than today. Much Freer, much simpler and people were a lot more united simply As Americans respecting each other's rights than they are today.😉
@@desertodavid Ha ha. I am European and remember communism and the cars he is talking about etc, but 1940s life in America was not better. It's a common mistake to make that things just happen to have been better a generation or two ago and that things have declined since the times of one's grandparents. You can check the standards of living and the availability of educational opportunities and travel opportunities and food cost and healthcare and human rights and life expectancy etc. There was still segregation in the south in a land that had a Constitution declaring all men to have been created equal, for example. If you feel unhappy about the present day, it's an error to decide things were better at some other time. The evidence doesn't support that view.
Ja I thought that one too. We are under heavy ridicule right now by the group
I could watch clips like this all day instead of the **** that comes out of Hollywood.
Well put.
I’m old white and scared. Why do things change!? Why can’t I say the N word in public oh Lord? Must be them demmycrats!
@@frankgarrett9500 based
@@frankgarrett9500 take your meds schizo.
@@frankgarrett9500 I'm just glad we've got President Trump on our side. He's a man's man, a Broke-back Mountain kind of a man's man.
Maroon convertible is a 1941 Chevrolet. Filthy restroom! Texaco at that time had registered restroom inspectors that visited Texaco stations to inspect their stations for cleanliness.
David Rossco everything wasn’t so grand in 1946. Nobody said it was a 46 Chevy.
Lincoln Paul
who peed in YOUR cheerios.
Travis Bickle
You're exactly right, Travis. Most
"filling stations", or "service stations" as they were called then, to the best of my memory, were clean and the attendants were clean-cut, courteous, AND very hard-working. I miss those days. There's a LOT of things I miss from the past, or as some people say, "the good old days".😂You have a great day!👍🇺🇸
Travis Bickle
You're making me hungry, talking bout those special-built German-made sandwiches. lol
I grew up in the country, and not to far from our place was a small cafe operated by an sweet, elderly couple. They made absolutely the biggest hamburger you ever saw, and when they "built" your chocolate malt, they would fill a glass with it, but the tin can they made the malt in was still bout 1/3rd full. So it was like getting TWO malts. lol. Yes, like yours, those are very fond memories. The
music too, IMO, was, unlike today's
so-called music, GREAT. This is probably a stupid question, but since you mention Milwaukee, were you a Packers fan?
Travis Bickle
A Presidential citation for your father and his battalion.... that is awesome. God bless your dad for his bravery and service for our America. I'm sorry for your medical condition. I will pray for you.
Your Packers, with Bart Starr & SO MANY other Packer greats, many times left me brokenhearted after beating my Cowboys time after time in the 1960s. IMO, the Lombardi-era Packers were the greatest team in NFL history. I would give anything to be able to see Lambeau Field. Travis, my friend, you take care of yourself.
good to see this, what an amazing time to be alive - shart, thank you for putting this up
When a time of motoring was pleasant and had was easy to find and off you went again. Back when pretty much every auto manufacturer had V8s on their lineups and were cheap even for their time!
In the mid 1960s a Buick which was at the level of a Mercedes could be had for about $4000. That in today's money would be about $13,000.
Just think about that.
My turbocharged four cylinder can beat any of those V8s.
@@bighands69 people would actually buy there cars outright. None of this 7 year finance shit.
1946 ! basically the ford flathead v-8
THe old gas pump attendant must have been in charge of bathroom detail....
Empty roads everywhere
Matt Drake less people at the time youngster
Just think how beneficial it would be to go back to at least 180 million people
You go first ; )
@@reesedaniel5835
I think we could reduce the population without killing anyone by encouraging people to have less kids
Infinite population growth on a planet with finite space resources and importantly food isnt a great idea and i think bringing the population to a stable rate is something we need to do
@@user-xg8yy7yl1d dude what the hell is this. The only people that are having less kids are white people. Every other ethic group are popping out baby's left and right and get government backing. Its so bad that whites will be a minority by 2045. How about we stop immigration completely and see how that turns out. Also kick out the 30mil-50mil illegals.
When my father was born in 1942 in Florida, there were only 1.9 million people. The roads were not busy and life moved at a slower pace. Today Florida has 21 million people, more than 10 times the population.
Gotta put those Cubans and Puerto Ricans somewhere.
Deport them all.
I used to love sitting on the roof with my little legs hanging through the sunroof on dads VW beetle on the way to the public pool back in the 70s.
My guess this is a clip for Esso dealers on how not to run their stations. The beginning shows what a dealer should do and the end shows what definitely not to do. Be friendly and have clean restrooms is what I take from this; the guy at the end definitely doesn't live by that model.
Definitely was supposed to be the competitor’s restroom.
Maybe in 80 years people will look back at videos of 2019 and think, wow they actually had trees back then.
Ok there Lenny Lorax!
I was in a grocery store yesterday and the men's room was nicer than the BRs in my own house: beautiful tile, marble, fixtures, etc. and perfectly clean. Haven't seen the inside of one at a gas station in decades.
Love that '41 Chevy convertible! My first car was a '41 Chevy Master Deluxe Town Sedan 2-door sedan. It had its quirks, but it was a good car.
We had an Esso Station in my hometown. I remember when the sign changed to Exxon in the early 70's.
In canada it’s still called
Esso
^I can attest to that
Damn those cars were nice back then
Gotta be my new favourite Video. Warmed my heart. Thank you!
Man what a beautiful era to live in
My small town was behind the times in the 1960s & 70s, so it still looked & seemed like this. People looked this way too. Just with a few newer cars around.
I miss the Texaco man & tidy people in uniform who smelled like sweat, natural fresh tobacco, leather, soil, work & oil. People weren't sanitized (though that old bathroom needed to be lol) & we all smelled & lived as our individual selves more!
This is amazing. We enjoy this & may not even stop to think how difficult it was to even make this footage back then? Is this colorized? It's wonderful!
Yeah, nothing like some BO and cigarette stench to make you long for the good old days LOL
1:29 For a moment I thought he was gonna drive into the fence, the mad lad.
Fantastic, thanks for sharing
Noticed that the pricing on the gas pump only goes to 99.9 cents per gallon. It wasn’t until the first oil shortage in the 70’s that pumps had to register a dollar or more. It was a real transition when gas went to $1.09. Per gallon thanks to the first contrived shortage. When pump prices rose to over a dollar all those tankers floating in the Gulf of Mexico with Saudi oil suddenly headed for the refineries.
Yep, 'three on tree' gear change!
Brilliant !. Just like going back in time, could watch this for hours. Those kids enjoying standing in the back would definitely attract a pull over by the Police now.
Love it! I use to stand in the back seat. Gas was 17.9c per gallon.
....and a good salary was $8k/yr. Everything's relative.
This video is great gives people a look it really hasn't change much
Very enjoyable to watch except for the rest room,,,
I doubt many had cars in 46. No wonder the roads are empty. The War only ended Aug 45.
Toyota1949 your head is empty
Toyota1949 the "Eisenhower highway system" (Interstates) were designed from pre WWII autobahn.
Volkswagen (people's car) was also another program to create jobs. it was modeled after Ford's model T, production line wise.
both were to make cheap cars poor people could afford.
Lincoln Paul be a baby boy some place else youngster
+Wayne Winston
The autobahn pre ww2 was just an idea. There was a few roads that were built across germany but it was not a complete networked system like today.
Pre ww2 America had similar ideas but again not widespread.
Cool video and a Thumbs Up liked.
I remember those days at gas stations service with a smile. Super service my father worked at one part time. Those days are long gone sure miss those days
NEW JERSEY still has gas station attendants to fill your tank. Its 2019-smiling is definitely optional. Just sayin...
Must've felt good to motor around and buy gasoline when you wanted without ration cards.
There had to be a Coke machine at that gas station somewhere. I would have rather seen it instead of the disgusting bathroom. Notice no graffiti?
None in the new US suburbia where you were a social climbing phony aristocrat. Noblesse oblige. It definitely was all over in the inner cities...
@@DKingd88 Sounds like you're quite the authority here! I am humbled by your wisdom -- as exhibited by your detection of social climbing phony aristocrats and the confirmation of graffiti proliferating the US inner cities, circa 1946. Please offer more detail, your highness -- as the opportunity to learn from a sage is surely welcomed.
@@pacz8114 Are you not familiar with "Keeping up with the Joneses?" The postwar period and the rise of the middle class and suburbia led to a consumerist arms race among neighbors, which the WW2 generation was wary of, having lived through the depression. It ultimately bankrupted a bountifully prosperous nation....
@@DKingd88 How are you measuring the prosperity? In what way is this prosperity bankrupted?
Saw a couple of pictures somewhere... probably doctored.
I still remember riding in the back seat of my dad's 1953 Plymouth. I couldn't have been more than 3 or 4 because I was small enough to climb onto the package shelf and take a nap. I don't think cars have package shelves any more.
WOW me too Ewue M!!!
Throughout all our family vacations through the 1960's and 70's, I never went into ANY restroom that looked like that, at roadside rest stops, at old gas stations, at fastfood places, nowhere, retail stores, restaurants, zoos, city parks, amusement parks, national parks and national forest latrines. Throughout the entire west from San Diego, through California, inland and coastal, all the way up to Vancouver, British Colombia, from the Dakotas down through Texas and all the states between, from Banff to Calgary to Denver to Arizona and New Mexico, I never saw that, and there were lots of driving vacations for months every year. Driving into Arkansas and up through all of the states of the Great Plains of the Midwest, I never saw that. People had PERSONAL DIGNITY to leave things in order, and public restrooms had hourly cleaning schedules that hung on the inside of the door, so the public could see when it was cleaned and by what employee. People had whatever measure of self-discipline and understanding not to trash restrooms like that: they were nothing like what we see today. Don't believe that part of this video. The first messy public restroom I ever saw was in the 1980's at a nightclub. All the stores and restaurants I worked in, their restrooms never looked like that either.
Your right CA Catr! Growing up in the 60's and 70's my Dad had a Sunoco gas station on a main 2 lane route & of course I got to clean the bathroom's!!! Never ever looked like that in the video!! And later on my brother & I had a Texaco gas station & YES there was schedule as to who was & did clean the bathroom!!! I miss those days & my Dad! People would come in down on their luck with a carload of runny nose little kids & my Dad would help them out with gas or even tires!!! By gone era for sure!!
Oh how I miss those days, and I wasn’t even born yet.
You weren't born as Harry yet, but you were probably living in '46 during your previous life as, say, John Smith ! That's why you miss those days.
The roads looked smooth as hell... its a shame America cant afford to maintain them today.
Of course we can't. They are to busy giving away Billions of American Tax payer dollars in "Foreign Aid".
Wide roads aren't cheap you know.
Dante E the reason why America cant maintain roads is clear. Have you looked into how much money US gives to Israel, Egypt and Jordan every year based on the agreement from 1975? Almost 6 billion a year. Have you ever seen one Republican or Democrat say wtf! Nope. But the average American is brainwashed but only if they even read about stuff like this
0:16 kids standing up in the back seat of a convertible. I remember when the back of station wagons were a playground going down the road.
Dang ... who knew the 40’s were banging with that music ? No wonder my grandad ( who was born in 32) was such a good jazz musician - primarily pianist .. although he could play guitar and any percussion instrument like nobody’s business , too. Wow .. funny how we don’t think to connect dots or even ask questions to our elders , when we reek it could’ve stood to learn and benefit from so much they’ve had to say of their time before gracing our lives & making them better by being there ... suddenly I’m missing my grandparents in ways i dont even know how to put in words ! I loved them dearly when they were in this world but I just really Miss them after this ... and my parents don’t have much longer to really connect and ask things about their own time either. Better get on it ! They’re prob. Gunna look at me like I’m crazy... interruption the games on their phones and what not 😂meanwhile me:I wanna know everything about your past , dang it !
Them :🙄😳...
I could have sworn he gave that attendant a buck for about 5gals of gas. My, have times changed. Lol!
20 cents a gallon, that would probably have been about right back then. I don't believe the last section with the dirty restrooms was part of the original film. Someone threw that in to be funny.
Gappie Al Kebabi what i wrote wasn’t a compliant, just a comment on the times we now live in. Obviously you don’t understand American tongue-in-cheek humor. Relax
With inflation, 20 cents a gallon comes out to just about $2.85 today. Guess what, you can actually get gas at that price this very day as long as you stay the hell away from Cali-Shit-fornia
the price on the pump was 30
r april No it was 20 cents a gallon or so then.
THOUGHT BACK THEN WAS SERVICE WITH A SMILE, THAT GASOLINE ATTENDANT LOOKED LIKE HE WANTED TO KILL
Your right Fred!! When my Dad had a Sunoco gas station back in the 60's and 70's he'd tell me & my brother, you smile & say yes sir, yes mam!! And even if they only want 50 cents worth of gas you " CLEAN THEIR WINDSHIELD "!!! And if I didn't there would be hell to pay!!!
Well the war did just end
I miss those days
The film is amazing quality someone must of had an amazing camera then, it's amazing how everyone had a job everyone worked it was all about service and family fun I would to go back in time
They were on their way to the cemetery. No seat belts, no air bags, no anti-lock brakes. It's a wonder I was even born.
Dan, they Did have back seats ya know .
We're all on our way to a cemetery.
Damn what a time to be alive
So gas station bathrooms always looked like a murder scene..
I was born in 1946 wasn't it nice back then? Now we have the people who are on the Jerry Springer show 😭
Frank Biz, Road rage has nothing to do with the driving ability, it has everything to do with the children of America rarely if ever being said no to. These children grow up and think the world should cater to their every whim. It’s rage everywhere in public places,restaurants, airports, grocery stores, office buildings. You don’t see this rage in other countries, certainly not in Western Europe.
As you may know, to obtain ones drivers' licence (license) in western-Europe isn't too easy. Ie; After passing the 'knowledge ('written') test, to get your 'full license' to drive, you take the driving on the road test w/a professional instuctor.. If and when you pass your test in an 'automatic' trans' car, this limits you, as you're not legal to drive a vehicle w/a manual 'box. But take and pass the driving test in a manual-then you're legal to drive either..
Have to admit, when driving there, this 'training' manifested itself in better communication between fellow motorists and an overall greater respect of other drivers,' too.
Lincoln Paul - you are so right! When I was growing up if I misbehaved I got a good whack on the bottom and that was enough to set me straight. None of this “time out” nonsense or trying to “reason” with a misbehaving child. I was taught respect for my elders, respect for my country, respect for my teachers, etc. I never threw a tantrum because I knew my parents would smack the hell out of me. And deservedly so. When my mother or father said “no,” that was it. No whining, no crying, no pouting, no pleading; No means no. I turned out fine, and my three adult children are happy, successful and well-adjusted members of society. Children need love but they also need boundaries, limits. Once in a while when a child tests your limits he or she may need a little “reminder” of where those limits are.
I've watched my nieces and nephews rampaging around restaurants and their parents just sit oblivious to the mayhem.
Andy Burk
I'm amazed at people today young parents in their twenties and thirties that don't even know they're being manipulated by their kids. It's very sad to watch because these kids are going to grow up without any discipline or respect for others. This is the main problem we have in society today lack of respect for others.
@@richlaw1953 I agree Richard!! Same here growning up!!!! Very well said!!!! Yeah, time out? My ass knew when to straighten up!!! Literally
The automakers’ biggest concern in 1946 was certainly safety.
My mom tells me that when she grew up, there were barely any cars on the road in the town she grew up in,
why does this give me nostalgic vibes
Because it reminds you of your previous life in '46 !
THE SERVICE ATTENDANT LOOKED MAD😠 HE WAS SAYING: "GET THE HELL OUT AND DON'T COME BACK!"
Handed him a buck ... "keep the change, Mac".
That softened him considerabky.
My mom would've been about the same age as the boy riding in the car.
Must've been an extended commercial for Esso back in the day.
awesome,thx!!!
I want a time machine, PLEEEEEEEEASE!!!
Somos dois... I want one too.
Hmmm. That filling station attendant doesn't seem so eager to please. I guess he's already discovered that the new prosperity wasn't to include him....
Says who? Working beats welfare, regardless of the decade. If you work smart, the odds are in your favor that you get ahead, then or now.
You must be the ghost of Horatio Alger...…Never mentioned anything about welfare.Work, work work...…..
If you work, you make your own prosperity. Stop being jealous of what others have worked for.
Gappie, you have a valid point. Perhaps the best solution is to study something that will get you a fairly good position in the endless struggle for money.Also, study something that you really love......that might benefit the situation I wrote about above.Example......Get a business administration degree....plus, study a foreign language. Learn it to fluency. Go to that country....maybeteach English (if you're from the US.) Who know what opportunitiesmay arise.Or...….try to get a wealthy family to adopt you and will afford you allof the crazy studies your heart desires.
Gappie, don't be dumb in your career selection. Don't spend 200K for a major in underwater basket weaving. If you major in a liberal arts field, understand that you're up against a lot of competition, so you'd better be at the top of your game. Don't throw all of your money away at a private 4 year school. Go to a local community college for an Associates, then transfer to a public or private 4 year. Join the military and let them train you, or at least use their educational benefits to pay for your schooling. Or, don't go to college at all. The Trades need people for all of the Boomers who will be retiring in the next few years. Society still needs electricians, roofers, plumbers, etc. Those guys make a decent wage without any college debt. Be smart about it and you wont be as financially hard up as you think. Bottom line, if you sit on your ass and complain about how hard life is, you'll still be sitting there whining about how unfair it is that people who worked hard got further in life than you did.
It all looks so peaceful. They didn't have to face traffic jams, constant car honking and what not. You could actually appreciate the beauty of open roads on sunny days unlike.
at 1:04 what did the attendant call the driver?
I do recall the public restrooms back then were not very clean.
Damn you are old....
Yep. If you're lucky, you will be too one day.
Yes, I believe you mentioned that in "The Great Shatsby", your finest novel
All they do is drive from gas station to gas station lmao
great music
Good grief, the restrooms could be dirty even in those days. I guess there's always been people with little respect.
Catch the old attendant saying (or maybe snarling) "Check the oil?" Who remembers that? I do.
That's showing the highlights of a road trip. Unsafe children and UNsanitary restrooms ! 😬
Some of the gas station attendants were wearing ties. What an amazing time that was.
Bow ties, that is.
Good to see public bathroom etiquette hasn’t changed much
now we have to pump our own gas and bag our own groceries. but the owners of the stores live in cavernous mansions out in the forest.
I WON'T BE GOING TO ESSO, THAT'S FOR SURE.
DIRTY BATHROOMS.
Really nice video save for the bathroom shots. Poo in the toilet, someone decided not to flush. Blech.
Gee, just when I was ready to write something like, "public restrooms were so much cleaner back then..."
Back in the day when kids were allowed to become missiles upon impact.
I would love to go back in time and grow up in that time period it seems simple compared to today and all the bullshit we have now
You'd be sort of safe going back since you've probably had your polio, MMR, DPT, influenza, pneumonia, etc. vaccines and are probably not Black.
This was a clip from an Esso (Exxon) dealers' training video about how to keep up standards of appearance and cleanliness at their stations.
Whats the music?
Did we just see poop from the 1940s? 😂
1:43 a blunt and a joint, damn 46’ was lit
That was tobacco, not pot.
During that time, a lot of people rolled their own cigarettes.
Donathan Campbell back then we never heard of Lit . Isn’t a term
@@josephalfonsoamantia7028 Exactly!
At 1:42, is that a joint on the floor?
Beautifull times !