How much was gas?

[Zardoz56]

I'm old. I can remember when gas sold for less than $.30 a gallon and cigarettes sold for less than $.50 a pack and when I was a young boy our rent was $55.00 a month. Man do I feel OLD!

 

[Lewkat]

I can remember when gas cost 17 cents a gallon.

 

[jujube]

25 cents when I was a senior in high school (1965). We girls would "cruise" on Friday nights and everyone in the car had to kick in a quarter for my gas-guzzling station wagon. One dollar's worth of gas would keep us going all night.

 

[ChiroDoc]

Yeah, I remember gas in the 20-cents range in the 1950s. When they had "gas wars" it could go down into the teens. I remember seeing it at 75 cents in NYC. I thought, "Who would ever pay that much for gas?!"

 

[Llynn]

10 cents during gas wars. 12 to 15 cents per gallon was common late 40s early 50s

 

[seadoug]

I don't remember the prices but I remember the gas shortages in the early 70's. We had to wait in line to get gas and I was driving my father's car, which got a whopping 13 mpg!

 

[Aunt Bea]

Gimme two dollars worth, check the oil and wash the windshield!



Where I grew up, you had to make sure to fill up on Saturday because all of the gas stations were closed on Sunday under the Blue Laws.