Eat here and get gas

Back when I was a kid we often took road trips to my Grandparents house in New Hampshire. Two land marks come to mind that are pretty funny.

One was in Ma. and it was an ice cream store that we'd often stop at. It was named Herpee's. Certainly must be out of buisness now with a name like that.

The other was a diner. This picture looks like it. It was in southern N.H.

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HAHA, thats classic! We have a bait shop out here on Lake Erie called "Master Baiters".

 

Cool

 

Now that's funny!!
Definitely a good attention getter.

 

A funny sign story-
In Buffalo, there is a chain of funeral homes called "AMIGONE."

 

In central Quebec, around Three Rivers and Lake Saguenay, the gas part is understood. They make the best darn plate of beans and ham anywhere, luckily it used to be lumberjack country, where guys could 'fluff' as necessary.

 

Anybody notice they were only charging 36.9 cents for a gallon of gas? I guess that tells us how old this picture is. Can you imagine paying that for gas nowadays? Getting air out of the air pump costs more than that at alot of stations around here.

 

Wouldn't that be the ticket! I would have the biggest gas sucking pig motor I could build! That air pumps out here are 75 cents and they hardly get a tire up to pressure.

 

Finally California has something for free!!! Full service gas stations in California must provide free air. No so for convenient stores that also sell gas. Full service meaning they also have a mechanic or smog test station or if they sell tires.

 

Gone are the days where virtually every gas station had air and water hoses at the end of each row of pumps. Remember the ones that recoiled back inside the curbs?
Whats next, pay to use the windshield cleaning squeegee? Coin-op paper towel dispensers?

 

They gotta stock the paper towel dispencers and have clean fluid in the squeegee tubs before they can charge to use them. I an forever cleaning the back glass on either of the wagons, but I find that 4 out of 5 stations are out of either towels or clean fluid. Why have them if they will not keep them stocked?

 

I solved that problem myself, Blackfoot.
I keep my own spray bottle in the back. Use the squeegee at the station, then toss it in the back to use again later. Chevron seems to have the nicest squeegees.

 

That would've been before 1957. In 1955, my dad used to grumble about the price at the SuperTest station right next door at 36.9 CDN$, until 1957 when it went to 50.1 cents. CDN$ gallon with 5 quarts. Now they sell it by the Litre here at around $1.00 (5 litres is almost a CDN$ Gallon.):banghead3: 32% of that is Gas Tax, then the two sales taxes go on top - another 12%. And our roads suck! :banghead3:

Ignore me, I'm cranky today. Still no quotes for the renovations, since May! Too much work and nobody to do it. We're in a bit of an Oil Boom here too.

 

You gonna have a squeegee sale soon?

 

Nah, one is plenty for me. Get your own.

The way I saw it, with the extortionate price of gas, it came free with the 20 gallon fill-up. The paper towels and the cleaning fluid had been empty for weeks.