Comments (46) (Please sign in to comment)

1. 

   orinoco womble said, about 1 year ago

   Many older people don’t like to concentrate on the future because the big Event keeps getting closer and closer.
   Some of us, though, avoid living in the past because it wasn’t a nice place to be when we were there.
2. 

   beviek said, about 1 year ago

   It’s very easy for me to be transported to the past whenever I hear ‘Golden Oldies’. And when I pay for gasoline and remember what it used to cost when I started driving.
3. 

   Llewellenbruce said, about 1 year ago

   Now some gas stations have the nerve to make
   people pay for air in their tires.
4. 

   Essex60 said, about 1 year ago

   @orinoco womble Those things and too that when everything was fresh and new there was a vibrancy which fades as things in life become repetitive. Hard not to like thinking about getting gas at a “filling station” by a guy who checks your oil, air in the tires, and cleans your windows, and the gas cost 25 cents per gallon. Awww those were the days.
   Check that 1951 Studebaker Earl’s got.
5. 

   beviek said, about 1 year ago

   @

   I’ve never seen any evidence that Earl was that type of person. Have I missed something in a past comic?
6. 

   Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 year ago

   I’ve never experienced the “rut” of the good life. It’s been a constant struggle to stay alive as long as I’ve been alive. Perhaps that is why time has always gone so slowly for me. The only year that went fast was my senior year in high school, more than 20 years ago.
7. 

   jnik23260 said, about 1 year ago

   You also wouldn’t believe how low wages were!
8. 

   Studakas3 said, about 1 year ago

   In 1969 Ipaid 21 cents a gallon for gasoline for my motorbike
9. 

   SusanSunshine said, about 1 year ago

   There was a “gas war” not long after I moved to this area … 1971-ish….
   a new “discount” gas station undercut everybody, and the majors made their franchisees cut prices till they lost money on every sale.
   
   Some even lost their stations because of it…
   but for a few weeks, gas got down to 16 cents a gallon!
   
   And nobody else can have Earl’s Bulletnose, cos I called dibs years ago!
10. 

    J. Short said, about 1 year ago

    I remember my parents had a Toronado. We filled it up with premium one day. My Mom gave me a five to pay for it. I got back some change. When I climbed back in the car she says.“See you’ll need a good job if you want to be able to afford a car.”
11. 

    RavennaAl said, about 1 year ago

    I remember how everyone freaked out because gas went from 30 cents a gallon to 60 cents a gallon in just a few months. Long lines, stations closed…. it was the end of the world! I’d go back to 1973 in a heatbeat….
12. 

    shmlss said, about 1 year ago

    @Studakas3

    i remember being on vac in ’72 & going thru okla & regular was 19c/gal!!
13. 

    Jean said, about 1 year ago

    love the car, my mom had one of those and it was goofy, the Park gear diidn’t always work, and it would roll downhill in our driveway alot. lol……….Gas was 19 cents a gallon when I learned to drive and now if we find it at $2.99 we think we are getting a good deal.
14. 

    Kathe said, about 1 year ago

    @jnik23260

    But the dollar was worth more back then and when you went to the store you spent $20 at the supermarket you came home with much more than you will do today.
15. 

    Citizen GROG! said, about 1 year ago

    Cheaper gas, cheaper smokes, cheaper everything. But then I wasn’t making then what I am now either.
16. Load 15 more comments. | Load the rest (31).