1965 Amoco Proprietor Recruiting Video "We are looking for a man"
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- Опубліковано 31 сер 2022
- 1965 Amoco Proprietor Recruiting Video trying to get existing Amoco proprietors to refer other suitable candidates for proprietorship. Video is digitized at 720 HD resolution. Colors have faded over the years due to the degradation of the pigments on the 8mm film. Film was found and recovered from a humid leaky attic in the former Standard Oil Co. bulk plant in Marion, Indiana.
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Yea I remember how simple and basic those stations were as a kid as my uncle was a proprietor of a"gulf"service station in the early 60's...I'll never forget the smell of new tires or that service bay area of gasoline and such..also he also sold some bicycle tires with the"Goodyear "logo they were" slicks"and i had one on my"Schwinn stingray"bike boy those were the days my dad would take us out to go spend time out there on saturdays.. It was great being a kid back then..also I forgot the mention for the penny gumball machines or peanuts..or the old style refrigerator bottled coke machine outside.
would ride my bike with my friend to Conoco station for "service". the owner guy would fill our tires!!!
Coke in a glass bottle was the best.
Ten cents a bottle, and you had to drink it there.
It was a great time to be a kid for sure.
they sure were direct and honest baack then.. "We want you to lease a Gas Station from us" no bs, no vagueness, no lies, no tricks, no fine print.
People used to take pride. In their job no matter what the job was, most young men in 2023 would feel "above" a job like this
Today's "SOY BOYS" are lucky if they even have drivers license. It takes effort to get one, and they don't give them like "participation trophy's". They might have to get up before the crack of noon, and get dirty, and most have very poor face to face communication skills. If they can't do it with a phone or computer, they are lost.
Ok Boomer.
Lazy no work ethic period.
No one takes any kind of pride whatsoever any more. It's hopeless. In 100 years no one will be left on this planet. It will look like Mars
Spot on
Back in the mid 70s I worked at a 76 station, a Business Man came in , He said Son get my windshield, check the tires and coolant by the time I get back from the bathroom, I did and He tipped Me $100. That's how much I made in a week.
Everyone romanticize the full service station. As someone who worked at one through college, different memories come back. Record cold weather, carrying the cash wallet. Any shortages came out of your check so no gloves....permanent nerve damage in both hands. $2 and scrape all the windows. Had a guy demand change a tire on his car while pumping the one gallon of gas. Multiple robbery attempts and all for $3.60/ hour. Ah, the good old days.
We definitely worked at two different gas stations hey little bit hard work But got to meet a lot of people checking out the young girls coming in course I was young at the same time I never had no nerve damage to my hands it did get cold but all in all it was a great time
I had a chance to have a small conversation with the beleaguered gas station mechanic down at the corner, quite a few years ago. There was a nice white with black top early 70's Pontiac Catalina convertible sitting there waiting to be worked on. I asked him; "Geez that's a beautiful car, isn't it?" He replied; " Nah, to me that's nothing but a big pile of bolts and grease." The service area has since been changed into a store area for pizza, chips, candy, etc.
Well that was called hard work. Today people don't want to do anything that requires any physical activity but want top pay to do nothing. I bet you are a republican. My father was a Democrat and worked his butt off till he passed away. I worked as a mechanic for 42 years, and yes it wasn't an easy job but i liked it.
@@lar4305 I agreed with you until you you said the Republican thing I'm a Republican and I still work even though I can retire Democrat party has changed from being for the working class to woke craziness
@@jamesyates3140 like the republicans aren’t a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists😂😂😂😂
Can hear the projector running. Reminds me of school
Imagine asking the service station attendant or manager for directions on a paper map!
Long before GPS ever existed not even the government had GPS yet. Maps are still fun to look at and use though, sometimes there is a joy in feeling something tangible.
I remember the "as you travel ask us" signs on Standard gas stations in the 60's. Cool old video!
"The Man" got eight good years. Then came the Yom Kippur War and our portion of the blowback was the Arab Oil Embargo. Willing to do anything to cut prices, operators introduced Self Service and the traditional service station disappeared forever.
After the first "gas scare" of the early 1970s so-called service stations were going out of business left and right.
Can you imagine a company offering a responsibility like that to "a man in his early 20s" today? Interesting how things have changed. And $30,000 in the mid 60's would have been a fortune. LOL. My dad was making exceptional money in mining back then - $20,000/yr - and him and my uncle were accumulating rental properties. Couple of divorces wiped that out, but things were good for a while.
My Father-in-Law ran a Texaco way back when. Gave out too much credit to businesses in the small town he grew up in. His friends and neighbors sunk him.
Yes, young people, the world was A LOT better back in the old days.
Back in the day when full service stations existed. No gas station grocery stores.
You got your windshields cleaned, and they pumped your gasoline, changed oil.
My first "real job" in high school was a service station attendant ..wore that Standard uniform. After my time in the Army..it had turned into Amoco.
Correct, Standard Oil Company of Indiana eventually was renamed AMOCO and eventually BP bought them in late 90s.
Thank you for sharing your experience of working there.
@SuperZed21 my pleasure..good memories.
Yes , people were simply happy to be working , feeding their families!!!!
Nicely done...too bad it was all filmed during a magnitude 7 earthquake!
😄It gave me a fine headache, but I endured it to the end.
Anyone else notice coke truck in the background? The guy is unloading coke bottles, not cans. Back then, coke was made with pure cane sugar 😋!
Too bad it wasn't still made with "coke"
This is correct Coca cola still used cane sugar in the united state until around 1980s when it switched to corn syrup due to tariffs on the foreign sourced cane sugar along with subsidies for corn syrup.
Back Then Service Stations We're Service Stations.....Not Convince Stores With Gas Pumps.
Gas stations now are just a place for blacks to knock over
And yet notice how the companies made the decision to ditch this format for the convenience store?
And now most are shit to work for!
Beer was not the largest percentage of their sales, they didn't sell beer, they made a profit on gasoline and auto related products. Today the gasoline sale profits go straight to the oil company. No jobbers to support, no tire sales, no lifts, no liability for labor intensive work. No pride, no incentive, screw you.
In Canada the gas station owners made more on the sale of chocolate bars then the gasoline. The margins were that slim.
You are correct. This is still true today, especially in the US where small family owned gas stations are being forced out of businesses as the petroleum companies continue to buy up more and more gas stations and price the smaller guys out.
It surprised me, as I thought all full service gas stations where gone. But the State of New Jersey has them by law, as does some of Oregon. Those Atlas Bucron tires where a favorite of street racers of the time, as they were made of a softer stickier Butyl rubber and had better traction.
Yes, great racing tires.
When I was still living in Massachusetts there were many full service stations in wealthy towns like Winchester or Newton. Rich folks there don't like filling up their own vehicle lol
In NY they were called American & later AMOCO because Esso & SOCONY Mobil were in NY Esso was Standard Oil of NJ & SOCONY Mobil was Standard Oil of NY so yet another Standard would be confusing
Those were the good old days I really wish I was around then People were much politer things were just easier cars were built better oil was better the gasoline back it was even better I just think life in general was better back then compared to now especially
>the gasoline back it was even better
...it had lead
Yeah rge car engines was shit, thats why the gasoline had lead in it, to keep the valves from tapping!
Thats not really quality when the fuel needs an additive to keep the engine quiet!
@@American-Motors-CorporationQUALITY OIL KEEP THE VALVES FROM TAPPING, AND LEAD IN THE GAS OVERCAME DETONATION AND PINGING IN THE CYLINDERS!
@@rossbryan6102 lol the pinging in the cylinders was the valves you moron!
@@American-Motors-Corporation I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN VALVE CLICKING AND PINGING AND DETONATIONS, AND WELL EXPERIENCED WITH STREET ENGINE WITH 13 to 1
COMPRESSION RATIOS!
WHAT ARMCHAIR MECHANICS SCHOOL HAVE YOU ATTENDED??
North Ashland Amoca Towing looks to be pushing the Plymouth automobile there at the end.
When I was 16 in 1978, I applied for a job at a farmers market. They told me they would only interview girls.
A lot of the local farmstands here do the same, even the drive in theater hires cute HS and college girls to run the snack bar. They know what brings customers in, fresh ripe produce and tasty looking treats, lol.
Key word there is"interview"
The late, great Standard Oil Company of Indiana.
Later known as Amoco Corporation.
Remarkably not a lot of dust on this film scan
I wonder if Wally sent Gomer and Goober to a training center on TAGS? Possibly, since Goober ended up owning a 2 pump station.
Big oils way to scam the little guy. These companies took these small businessmen to the cleaners and screwed them over every chance they could. My dad worked for Sinclair oil as VP of Sales and saw it first hand. He quit and worked for the Dept of Energy in the 1970's. The whole oil shortage was also made up by the oil companies and they kept tankers full of offshore and manipulated the price of oil.
I’m sure you, and your dad, must be democrats. Only a democrat could make up such a stupid story.
From what I understand it was basically OPEC's fault mostly along obviously with some very poor energy policies by developed industrialized countries who were overrelying too much on oil for electricity generation and ultimately did not go on with nuclear sadly.
I'll take the 64 Thunderbird and the 65 Galaxie thank you
I think this is in Chicago on Ashland.
Thank you for providing that info. I was wondering about where this was filmed.
People were much polite
Not really
Depends on what part of the United States you were in and who you were. Overall though people were more polite in general because people mostly were happier since it was much easier to raise a family and own a modest home and car ect. No college needed, no going through a bunch of AI resume filters ect.
Possibly filmed in Ashland, Chicago?
That station was at the northwest corner of North Ave and Humbolt Blvd in Chicago. There is a laundromat, built in the mid eighties, on that property today.
The car repair shop has got to revent it's self to cater more for women who now own cars
37 cents a gallon for gas in 1965, what a rip off, back in 1969 I remember my dad paying 25 cent's a gallon for gas in Salem Oregon.
At that time I was in Soviet Union and it was 3 cents per liter or 12 cents per gallon
We had "gas wars" here on the West Coast in the late 60's; I remember Hancock gas stations with seven different grades of fuel, actually only had two holding tanks...regular and hi test, the pump blended the amount of each grade to "make" seven different grades of gas.
It was possible sometimes to get regular Mohawk or Good Gulf for 25 cents a gallon or get up to 6x times Blue Chip, S&H Green, Orange or Mission saving stamps with your purchase of gas.
Simpler times and full service, plus free road maps.
Funny how it went from service to no service 2023!
Oddly enough there are one or two states left I believe where you can't pump your own gas. Also a surprisingly number of full service stations left in new england.
You don't have much of a "bargain" with "used tires."
@@barpatron 🤣🤣😒😒
37 cents/gal
So is the film jumping intentional or?
BACK IN THE DAYS OF FILM CAMERAS AND PROJECTORS
SUCH FLICKERING WAS NOT UNUSUAL!
IF THE FLICKERING GOT WORSE THAN THIS, THEN PEOPLE COMPLAINED!
Mis-adjusted projector.
Sit right down there WOMAN! lol
Today all you need is to blinks your eyes Lol
I remember the bell going off when we pulled into the gas station as a kid, then someone would come out pump the gas
I used to jump on the hose cable to make the bell ring.
@@Lockemeister ha I was just about to say that. My brother and I used to do that.
I'm shocked , this looks so smoothly run... and yet they never mention the DEI/ Diversity costs.. and other nonsense.. Guess who still runs business like this.. .......China.
They don't put up with any clap!
Shows how we have gone to hell since
Within 100 years no one will be left on this planet. Same thing happened on Mars.
Median hourly wages of americans basically have at best went nowhere and meanwhile cost of everything went up and up for decades. Housing is the worst one basically impossible to afford for my generation not even a little tiny starter home out in the middle of nowhere. Interest rates for loans high yet savings rate a joke.
❤2023 book. Teaching white supremacy by Donald yacovan. They stopped teaching white supremacy in public schools 1776-1965 due to Martin Luther king and Malcomb X
I am too young to remember projectors for movies. I am born in 1994 and mostly remembered VHS tapes running in VCRs. Also a few rare times a laserdisc and laserdisc player! And later DVDs. All now obsolete formats.
All white men
Love it
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I worked at a standard gas station in 1966 i always hated when someone would come in and wanted me to check the air in their tires FJB
I remember this. Employees were helpful. What happened? Now, it's just angry, surly, unhelpful indians.
Indians are very business smart. Not friendly though largely because things are very competitive and cut throat in India. You can't afford to be nice when the train is filled up to the brim and the roof has even more. Manners are always desirable I agree.