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3Gear

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Re: I remember when
« Reply #15 on: July 30, 2008, 04:19:46 pm »
Quote from: njgt-1 on July 30, 2008, 02:34:43 pm
early 70's. Give aways were a big marketing trick back then.


True, that was the only way to get people to wear those awful Polyester leisure suits......  BO** BO**
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Re: I remember when
« Reply #16 on: July 30, 2008, 06:15:50 pm »
Ok you guys got me thinking  so I went into an OLD black box which I haven't touched in many,many years. My Aunt left for me after she died. It held a lot of my Dad's "things" like a WW11 gas ration card, a sugar purchase certificate, green stamps, a headline from the Philadelphia Record (dated) Monday May 10, 1943 and his  phone book. plus a $100 Liberty Bond. I had to stop looking. It got too hard for me.
I "think" some of you know my Dad died on my 16th Birthday. ( but he has always been  by my side)  (love
As Chris says "Dad get rid of all your chit now, so we don't have to"   :icon_cheesygrin:

So I got rid of  one of Chris's chairs and old computer desk today  777

Bud


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Re: I remember when
« Reply #17 on: July 30, 2008, 06:23:44 pm »
Bud, Keep those precious items. Some people just don't understand that that 'chit' keeps that person by our side and in our hearts!
Mike
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Re: I remember when
« Reply #18 on: July 30, 2008, 06:44:31 pm »
Also keep in mind, things weren't so "disposable". People kept stuff and were very frugal. They repaired things when they broke (like our wonderfully simple cars) and used them forever (like our wonderfully simple cars)  :icon_wink:. If you could get a set of glasses just for filling up a few times that was a great deal.  d-s They were useful and you got them for free! I remember the horse shoes from Gulf...It had kick! The Red Ball was Red Ball 76 now UNOCAL still using, and giving out on ocassion, the red ball for the antenna. Sinclair was the little brontosaurus like on their sign. There was a Sinclair Station next to the Evergreen Diner out on Rt 70. It was closed in the 70's but I remember the sign with the dinosaur on it and the 29 & 9/10 cents per gal for years after
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Re: I remember when
« Reply #19 on: July 30, 2008, 09:15:14 pm »
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In the early seventies I was just a sparkle in my father's eye :)

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True, that was the only way to get people to wear those awful Polyester leisure suits......

Wrong decade! I'm talkin 60's not 70's. by that time the "gas shortages" killed any incentive for stations to use "give aways", didn't need them customers were glad to get gas! It was a different time, the station attendants actually cleaned your windows, checked your oil and air pressure, and they wore uniforms. Now try to imagine the Gen Xer with the hat on backwards at WaWa doing that stuff! ( sorry if I offended any Gen Xers! don't take it personal! )
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Re: I remember when
« Reply #20 on: July 31, 2008, 10:13:10 am »
Quote from: njgt-1 on July 30, 2008, 09:15:14 pm
Damn Youngins!
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Now try to imagine the Gen Xer with the hat on backwards at WaWa doing that stuff! ( sorry if I offended any Gen Xers! don't take it personal! )

yo I got news for you... the Gen Xers are now in their 30s.  I'm not sure what they call the people pumping gas at wawa these days.   oh yeah: DAMN YOUNGINS  hehehe

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