Gas hit 14.9 cents per gallon around 1975 in Troy one day.

Pretty much learned to drive in the late 70s with my grandfather's Chevy with 3-on-the-tree and our janky Beetle 3-speed stick.

My first cars had the light clicker thingy in the floorboard. First one was a '74 Impala with a trunk big enough to transport bodies for the Mafia.

Great-grandmother lived in Danville and had a party line phone, no air conditioning and propane for heat in winter though she didn't use it much. If I got around the propane tank someone would yell at me to get away because I guess they thought I would make it blow up. LOL This was in the early-mid 70s. Her sister lived up the road and still used their outhouse although indoor plumbing was available. They were in their 80s, I think, and didn't see the need for fancy indoor commodes.

Carried a pocketknife from the time I was in third grade, traded them with friends, showed them in class, had teachers tell us to put them away but didn't get in trouble. Shotguns in the car in high school and the principal would ask "How'd y'all do?" if I checked in late or tell me "Good luck" if I checked out early during deer season.

And no one ever thought about bringing a gun to school or using one to settle anything.

Yep, Gas Wars it was 16 cents a gallon. Good times.

From the day I started driving, I took guns to school everyday. There was always one or nine guns in my truck. I even traded shotguns with a teach a couple of times. We just carried them into the classroom and traded.

I remember thinking I was so cool at 16 years old when I perfected that long 1st-2nd throw on my cutlass along with a strong gas-clutch engagement. Dad had replaced the clutch with some sort of heavy truck clutch and when I popped it good going into 2nd it would bark the tires pretty good. It’s a small memory, but I remember how satisfying it felt driving that thing around once I was allowed out on my own.

Sounds like Morgan when I was in school

My parents didn't get AC until 3 or 4 years after I moved out. First house I lived in with AC we bought.

The gas pumps had a bell that rang at every gallon.
Jack's cookies were 2 for penny and they were in a 5 gal glass tub on the counter. I loved these cookies.
The owner lived in the back of their country store/gas station.
You drank water from a bucket with a ladle...this was before running water.
Everyone had an outhouse and a piss pot in the house in the winter.
The most exciting day of the year was when the Sears and Roebuck catalog came.
If you ate chicken you killed it.
You made your own charcoal for a BBQ.
There were no deer to hunt.

I had a 68 Mustang coupe 5 lug that had a pedal in the floorboard between the dimmer switch and the kickboard. When you pushed the pedal the windshield wipers would cycle once. I guess that must have been the first intermittent wipers. It also had a bench seat. Both the wiper pedal and the bench seat were pretty rare in an old Mustang.

It was a big deal to order an item from the Sears catalog, send in your money and wait 2-3 weeks to get it. Oh, how times have changed.

The green stamp store.

Dang, I remember most of that. Never made our own charcoal. My great-grandparent's well had the best water. It was my job to fill the water bucket. We called the ladle a dipper.

S&H Green stamps.

Yep, haven't thought of those in years. Wasn't there a plaid stamp too? I know there's a bunch on here that haven't a clue what we're talking about.

I might of been 10 when my mom saved up and got me a fort, with soldiers and indians, using green stamps.

There was a plaid stamp, or maybe that was something I saw in a Looney tunes cartoon. But I remember it being an exciting day when I went with mom to cash in the green stamps.

The stamps were awesome. Gaston’s in Selma had them

I actually looked at a fully-loaded 4x4 Tacoma today, just for fun, that was on the showroom floor. $48,500. 120 easy payments. No thank you.

Buying cigarettes out of a machine when they were 27 cents and you got the 3 pennies back in the pack.

Damn! That's what we paid for our first house!


TEN years of owing the bank for a car. #justdamn