Life at the Gas Station - 1950s America in Color
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2023
- In this film, we travel back in time to 1950s America and experience life at the gas station. We'll see the owners and customers who fill up on gas and snacks, and we'll learn about the importance of the gas station in American culture.
If you love vintage cars and retro style, then you'll love this film! Life at the Gas Station takes us back to a time when cars were big and American families spent their days pumping gas and catching a quick snack. From garages to suburbs, this film will transport you back to a bygone era and teach you about the importance of the gas station in American history!
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The old staions in rural areas are a significant groundwater pollution problem. When they folded and and the building was demolished, the underground tanks were often left in place.
What's your point?
@@user-ge2qn6gp4o pollution….you can be fined for that…
Wonder how many have been removed.............
I doubt that many of the old underground tanks are still in place.
Federal regulations in the latter '70s and early '80s required for those old tanks be dug up and removed.
@@willhorting5317 That's nice too know...
Good Old Days are Gone... The Quality of Life has Gone... Wish I could go back & live in USA between 1930s to 1980s.
Build Back Better 2.0 -- Biden/Harris 2024!!!!
god how i miss those days.
There are many pictures from the 1960's and the cars are the way I can tell but it's cool anyway
FYI: Many of those pictures have 1960s cars in them. Cool pictures.
Not perfect but a very pleasant time in America's history. Even the cars had class and their own character.
The good life is long gone, everyone was Happy and free to enjoy there lives on the road back then and now days everyone works check to check and hates everyone because of how miserable living in America is These days
“We are fundamentally changing America” -Obama
2:13 2:15 2:16
Everybody is being prescribed meds now or theyre prescribing their own..thats the trouble.
@@anthonyiocca5683 While I am absolutely no fan of barry the feckless, it began before him. The real root of the problem is government growing (taking more of a finite pie), paying people not to work, handing out money, over regulating, and intruding in every aspect of modern life.
No one ever thinks about this and the "cost" both in money and stress.
@@griswald7156 The meds are an obvious part of it…
Funny how over half of the pictures were stations in the 60's and 70's not the 50's as claimed!!
I was one third owner of a Texaco Gas Station in Pohick Church Virginia in 1967 to 1968 while in the Army stationed at Woodbridge East Coast Transmitter Station following my return from Vietnam. I was 20 years old. Some of the Texaco Station s you show bring back memories. Now 76 years old and living the good life in Costa Rica. No cars since 2013, Mountain bikes, lots of walking and in thew past year mopeds and e-scooters.
I went to Woodbridge ,Suffolk last year for my holidays,staying in Felixstowe..it was lovely..Hoo mill was good..
@@griswald7156 I wonder if the gas station still exists? It was on the north side of the highway and atop a hill. Premium we sold for 12 cents a gallon in 1968/ Made most of the money from the tow truck and selling Firestone Tires, batteries and other repairs.
As for Woodbridge East Coast Transmitter Station it was first turned into a Community College and then a Park. Place was loaded with deer.
@@riskyron1416 lets google street view it
This was a nice blast from the past. I remember going to the local Sinclair gas station back in the day and the attendants were friendly and helpful. The toys for the kids were a nice treat and air was free. Nowadays the people who work at gas stations seem annoyed when you ask them for a receipt and air costs $2.00.
They get annoyed in the uk when you ask for a receipt,they usually try to fob you off quickly by saying “all done”
Yesterday i was asked for my mobile number so they could send a receipt…..yeh right..!…or they ask for your email address ! to sell on. Yeh right also to that…
There's no air compressor at the station because there's no auto repair. Just gas and chicken jo-jo's
I still remember that sound as you pulled into the 'Filling station ' as my grandmother used to say, of the 'dink, dink' of the bell when a car ran over the rubber hose that ran across the fuel island lanes !, as a kid I would sometimes run them over on my bicycle just to hear the bell ring !,sometimes annoying the gas stations owner !
My dad used a much stiffer hose to prevent gratuitous bicycle dinging. He may have had the stiffest hose in town.
My dad owned a Texaco station in the 50's and I loved hanging around and "helping him" . When he would go out to fill up a car and wash the windshield, I would wipe the headlights. My compensation was a Coke from the old bottle dispensing machine, just like the one in the picture at the 9:40 mark.
Quite a few of these "1950's " had 1960's and 1970's cars in them......there must have been a lot of time travelers back then.
"Back to the Future" - De Loreans for sure. 🥸
My dad leased a Sinclair station from '55 to'57 but they broke his lease because he started to do engine rebuilds in one of the bays (it had 2) and only had one for flats, oil changes etc. and they felt it was loosing revenue. That was a fun time we had free soda and all those free Tom's (brand) candy. I learned about customer service by doing windshields and checking the oil while dad pumped gas. Thanks for the memory.
Great Video , However a Lot of the images shown here are NOT 1950s but are 1960s
I pumped and worked at a gas station in the 1960s and clearly recognize the pumps and Autos shown in some of your photos
Thanks for sharing ! Brings back LOTS of Memories !
Thanks
I grew up in a Sinclair station started in late twenties or so .Grand father was a schooled mechanic and built his own 1937 Packard tow truck.
Simplicity is the answer, we can return to those days again if we are willing.
We had a country store, I pumped gas, checked oil, cleaned windshields, put air in tires, filled radiator. Leaded gas was 16 cents a gallon Ethyl was 17 cents a gallon. You could fill up for 3 dollars
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Love those old stations. i used to run a little small town Texaco station in the late 70s that still had the big star logo like you show a lot in this vid...thanks for the memories.
You ran it? What was your job title? What were your hours? Were your employee good or bad?
If it’s a small town did you get used to the same customers?
This is the closest you can get to classic Americana. I grew up in the 50s, and it fascinated me to the nth degree when I was a kid. Reaching adulthood, I was absolutely crushed when the dreaded self-service started to creep in. I'm just glad that I have all of those memories that will stay with me.
WOW those were the days. I worked at several gas stations in Hemet California in the late 50s and 60s. My favorite one was a large ststion on the corner or Florida Ave & San Jacinto St. On the back side of the station was Griffs drive in resturant. That was the local hange out for teens & Hot Rods. WOW the memories of yester year. That was 60years ago for me.
In 1974 I worked for my uncle at his 76 Station in Huntington Beach CA. It was the best job to have in the summer, especially when the ladies came in. They all had spotless windshields.
I bet the blokes would get worried if they had a clean windscreen..
I worked at a Philips 66 gas station in the early 70’s and it still operated like these,even still had 2 service bays. This was during the Mid East gas crisis where you could only buy gas every other day or when your license plate was odd or even. No self serve back then.
I remember having a model play toy of a Texaco station just like that in early 60’s. Was very high quality and accurate too.
Washing windshields, checking oil, free air…
My 2018 Volvo doesn't even have a dipstick or gauges for battery or oil. Nuts. Already had a battery wear out.
But on my 2 month trip I only needed air and oil once. Windshields never crack anymore either.
The attendant knew your name and you knew theirs! They knew how to open your gas cap and gavie you Blue Chip or S and H Green Stamps!
My dad and I ran a DX service station back in 1958 and gave out green stamps and changed oils and fixed tires and tune up cars 😊
It appears that quite a few photos of 1960s cars snuck in.
Thank you so much...appreciated!
I've always wanted to own an old service station. One with a garage bay for minor repairs and tire services. And an actual person to till the pump and clean your windows. Starting to think I was born in the wrong time haha
Lots of those guys went bust because they spent time helping customers for little or no reward. They didn’t sell enough oil, candy bars or screenwash to go with the gas.
We all should be war babies 1945….perfect…then you’ll avoid world war three..
Thanks for the memories!
I do not see only the lovely old gas station…I easily notice how fit and elegant were the people in those days.Compare to today where the majority is fat,out of shape and dressed ugly..Most of the people we saw in those images are now very old or not with us anymore.I ask myself,How today’s “replacements “compare?😮
I couldn't agree with you more! I was born in 52 and I know what you mean.
That 57/8 Plymouth at the servo is insane,low and chopped.BTW I had a 59😀
Those days are long gone... Never to return..
Happy Motoring
How we miss ESSO. ⛽
We called them "Filling Stations"
No matter what you work in, arrive to deliver service the way these people provided service decades ago to people. It all starts with us.
Enjoyed!!!! ⛽🙂⛽
I liked your video of the stations. It would be great if you had the locations . I know that it would be a large undertaking.
Here in Pa we had Sunday blue laws in the 1950 & early 60's. Only place that we could purchase a soda was at a nearby gas station that only sold 8 or 10 ounce returnable bottles so we had to drink it there. The corner drug store would only sell Sunday newspaper & prescriptions the few hours they were open on Sunday. Can remember the oil can stand between gas pumps. Might have only charged you 35¢ for the quart of oil they put into your engine. Once the local rip off gas stations started charging a $1 for only 3 minutes of air went out and purchased a nice 18 volt portable air compressor.
My father had a Flying A gas station in Queens NY in the late 60s early 70s. He said he didn’t make much money selling gasoline. Most of the money was made fixing cars.
By 1970 all Flying A' stations were converted to Getty stations.
My grandparents owned and operated a small town gas station and mechanic shop, from the latter 1940s until 1973.
The oil companies did not like the term "gas station." They wanted people to call them "service stations."
Ole days - Bac when this was a honest living & the Owner GAVE a Shite !!!!!!
The owner these days is most commonly the oil company itself. And I suspect they don't give a shite!!!!!!
Is it just me but do these pictures of life back then make you all have a wonderful happy feeling in your stomach that lifts into your lungs with an air of freshness and normalcy? Does your mind wander into wanting to live in these images?🤗
I'm old enough to be a product of growing up in the 70's and 80's where things still resembled much of these images.
What the Hell has happened?🤔
I remember back in the day the only thing you could get at gas stations was gas oil wiperblades tires etc. They had machines with Cigarettes soda and candy.
I remember riding my bicycle to the local gas station in the mid 50's and it was a Texaco to file up my tires in Wichita KS that was only a couple of blocks away and later when I got a car I filled it with gas
So many long gone gasoline brands: ESSO, Sinclair, Texaco, Sunoco, Signal... just to name a few. ⛽
I remember the old gas station where Nancy or Rita would come out and pump your gas.
Working at a gas station in those days the attendant had to know where the hidden gas cap was on many vehicles. Side benefit was looking through the windshield at a pretty girl while washing it!😉
GREAT VIDEOS
Driving over that stretched out rubber hose that rang a bell to let them know some one was driving up for service.
At 5.25 the Texaco station what is going on there with all the cars stacked up like that? How did they get up there?
An elevator. Those structures weren't uncommon in the old days. If they had an elevator failure, big problem.
A lot of the pictures are mid 60s at earliest from the cars
I worked at several gas stations when I was a kid in the seventies in Texas.
Fond memories
Same for me in small town Alberta Canada in the sixties.
Notice how skinny folks were. This was before the greaseburger franchises arrived. My dad's Standard station in rural Iowa closed when WWII deprived stations of product and his health declined a bit. Since then, the building has been an apartment and a beauty parlor but may be empty now. Our town was on cross-country federal highway 6, which had sustained eight gas stations in this little town of 900. Interstate 80 bypasses such communities, and highway 6 exists only in short segments here and there across America.
This was before the Interstate Highway System.
The first job I ever had when I was ten years old was at a rural gas station, I was the one who cleaned the wind shields of gas customers. I was paid fifty cents an hour and I used the money I made to buy Christmas presents for my family that year. I also worked on farms in the area for the same wage, and drove my fathers Ford tractor with blocks of wood attached to the pedals. The worse job I did was picking up rocks in our fields, a never ending job and at the time a mystery to me as every year plowing brought up more. Cleaning out the chicken house was smelly but not nearly as hard as picking up rocks! Working around the gas station was a good education in auto care and one that has stayed with me to this day.
You are lucky to grow up with character and a work etihck. I started pumping gas at 13 and would never change that.
@@rooky55 I worked at a gas station cleaning the windshields! The customers would tip me a whole dime and sometimes a quarter!
You mentioned gas stations had mascots like the Sinclair dinosaur but the Phillips shield?? You should have mentioned Mobil's Pegasus, not Phillips shield.
Does it really matter.
Why are there photos of cars from the 60s in video featuring life in the 50s? Whoops .... error alert!!
European gas stations still have restaurants shops and even bars in them. People have refreshment or drink coffee or alcohol. It’s cute!👍
@004bop Yes😂 It’s a tradition and state police collects good € in fines (especially in states with zero tolerance)👍😂 Everybody’s happy!
Quite a few early 60's cars in there. lol 😁😁
Frequently, the gas station attendant would over fill the gas to make an even money fill up. During the oil level check he would do a “short stick” of the dip stick. “Quart low, I’ll add a quart”. Ah the good old days.
Or the wiper ripoff, or the radiator cap swindle, or the fan belt hoax...
Best time of my life when I was 14 to 16 years old. and was pumping gas in a BA station in the sixties. The girls would stroll by and us gas jockeys were in paradise. What great memories! We boys loved those girls when we were growing up before they had a penis.
Life was great with dumb phones.
How is the Phillips 66 shield a "mascot"???
Show the town name for each station.
we had an Amaco gas station near where I lived and used to burn the Amaco White Gas in my airplane, the octane was as good as avgas and also used in it in our Coleman gas light
Did the aircraft's wings impede snuggling up to a gas pump?
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7:15 to 7:33 is a Mobil station..in Israel !
Besides showing some 60s autos, you also showed a station that had to be in Israel as signage was in Roman alphabet and modern Hebrew script!
the Pic at the 1:00 mark is not from the 50's it's from the late 60's and I can tell by the blue Pontiac's tail lights it's a 1967 Tempest
Attendants still have to pump the gas in New Jersey.
I saw a Pontiac from the 60s
Pull over at this gas station Harry, I want to get a map. I think we’re lost - said my mother NEVER.
I can remember Mom an Dad an others saying: Self service gas would never go over. 🙄🙁😯😮😎
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I only saw 1 gas pump with the moving balls that went around when the pump was on..
The ones with the balls in them were very early 50s but mostly 40s. If you are old enough to rember the balls ,do you rember the ones with a class cylinder on top with marks to measure the gallons you wanted & a pump handel on the side to fill it up with?
They should bring back pump attendants and create jobs.
1950's Gas Stations??? How come there was a 1967 PONTIAC LEMANS parked RIGHT NEXT TO THE BUILDING in the SECOND SHOT IN THE VIDEO??? And it DIDN'T LOOK LIKE IT WAS NEW. Seems more like Gas Stations in the late 1960's early 1970s, which I AM OLD ENOUGH to remember... Guess old Doc Brown misprogrammed the FLUX CAPACITOR on this one...
Don't forget about the energy crisis of the 1970's causing alot of closures or having effects on gas stations
Change up the sound track!!!! Good grief!
Otherwise good video!
I hate to be that person, but, half of these pictures are from the 1960's, as late as 67, according to the cars.
Can you do some clips in Black and White ?
I don't see what you mean
Rather than in color@@MemoryLN
Everyone loves color photos, why wouldn't you?@@jerrygish2756
@@MemoryLN I don't really think black and white photos should be excluded just for being in black and white
okay@@redtra236
Back in these days you got a ride home if you had been drinking and driving even if you had killed some😢one, mad was not alive yet
Show's 1960's cars.
good old time when cars weights more than 4000 pounds and people less than 160 pounds...
Not that it really matters, but, while this was supposed to be a video about service stations in the 1950s, peppered throughout the film, there were cars from the 1960s. Example. In the first two clips, there was a 1960 Pontiac and a 1961 Chevy. So, was this supposed to be a video about service stations in the 1950s? Or, the 1950s AND 1960s?
Good ol' days👍. Full service instead of having to pump your own gas😡. I guess the Bible is true when it says " times, they are a git'n worse".
There an awful lot of photos in this video from the '60s and even a few from the '70s.
Er some of those pics are 1960/70s
Too bad there all but gone.
Too many non-1950's cars
At least 1/3 of these photos are from the 60s. And one is not even from the United States. Otherwise, it's a nice trip down memory lane.
Nobody’s wearing tats…
Or overweight either.
@@MrShobar or moaning
B+W 👍Color 👎 The Music Sucked.
We can do without the damn narrative.
Should have been titled the 1960s America. Most of the shots were from the 60s.
And now they are just trashy food stores.
And the oil company owns it.
The video show 70 cars, ding dong