It was in the 1950s, probably 1954. The place was Tea, Mo. The price was $0.25 per gallon - no odd-ball 'and 9'. I bought gasoline from a manual pump. By double-acting pump, the attendant pumped the gas into a large vertical glass cylinder, well above the height of the customer's vehicle. Inside the cylinder were markers for 1, 2, 3, etc., gallons. When the cylinder was full, some gas overflowed back into the storage tank. Then, by gravity, the attendant would admit gas into the customer's tank, as many gallons as the customer asked for. There was in those days no "fill 'er up"; that would have led to fractions of gallons. Bob Doerr in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks Please see http://www.rollanet.org/~bdoerr/contents.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jims505@aol.com> To: <MO-STLOUIS-METRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:07 PM Subject: [StL-Metro] Gas 1940s > I remember in the 1940s when you pulled into a filling station and the > attendant asked, "How much?" Ralph Brasher Sr would reply, "Give me five," and he > would receive five gallons of gas for one dollar. My grand dad, Ralph, was a > cool dude. > > Then gas settled around 22 cents a gallon and one day he pulled into a > station and asked for five and received five dollars worth. Poor Ralph only had a > dollar with him and had to go through the indignity of having gas taken out of > his tank on a car lift. > > On the way home Ralph's comment was, "Those #@$&%**%#@$& gas companies are > trying to rule the World."----Jim > > > ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== > To ask for a lookup or volunteer to do acts of genealogical kindess, visit Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at http://www.RAOGK.org. > >