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Originally Posted by Tcoat
In Ontario self serve really didn't come into it's own until the late 70s and early 80s. I bought my first two cars with my earnings pumping gas from 1972 to 1974. Then the self serve places started popping up and business dropped off to the point they didn't need a pump jockey anymore. I got laid off at 15 years old. I loved the job since I got to talk to all sorts of people.
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Ahhhh.......yes, that brings back memories.
Almost every Sunday, in the late 1950's, I would work at my Uncles Chevrolet dealership and gas station. The picture is an actual picture ...... except the gas pumps are gone that were in front.
I would pump gas when someone drove up, and the bell rang, and wash cars (on a wash area behind the large glass window) between gas customers and detail new cars in that circular area, if things were really slow.
Yep, $1.00 per hour and happy to get the work ....... beat the heck out of baling hay .....
Gas was 31 cents per gallon, the cokes in the machine were 5 cents and cigarettes, out of the machine, were a quarter a pack.
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