These service station men were well respected in our town in the 1960s when I was growing up. It' unbelievable how things have changed in 50 years for the worse.
My dad was a gas station guy, he was like the mayor, always checked your oil, clean your windshield and chatted with customer if they wanted, when he died, no kidding, a couple dozen people came to his funeral, because they got to know him over the years, I met a guy a decade after he died, we got talking about the past, he tells me a story of being broke and how some gas station attendant filled up his tank and said, pay me when you can, he said the town and it was a guy named Frank, my Dad, we were both shocked. That was my father, great guy.🙏
My first job was in a Golf station in 1968 when I was 16 and then worked in Arco, Shell and Texaco over the next half dozen years. It's where and when I learned how important customer service is. Nothing changed over the years from this video until the start of self-service. It taught me to take pride in my work and that carried through my whole working life and into my retirement days.
I own a tire retail/ auto repair store- I have my staff watch this and other videos from this channel. What worked over 50s ago still applies today. Sadly, it’s hard to find in many businesses.
My friend’s dad had a station like this one. And he was a well liked community father and businessman. A small sized gas station in the 60’s. But very clean, always. And popular among all the neighboring residents. Very convenient . Fast fill ups. Just classic in appearance!
My first job, grocery sacker and carry out. Second, Conoco station attendant (also in uniform). Except for the brand, it looked almost identical to this Texaco. We did virtually the same thing in the same order too. A much kinder gentler America in those days....sigh.
I pumped gas, but we sold cigarettes too, customers constantly complaining about cigarettes costing 65 cents a pack. Fifty cents of that being the new federal tobacco tax.
@@davestewart2067 But at the end of the day both sides kept things from going too far. It isn't the unpredictable anarchy that goes on today. I went from training to fight the Soviets to having to trying to learn multiple doctrines of fighting for a future of endless wars when I was in.
Ahh, the good ol days, when you could complain about your life troubles to a gas station attendant and he was a hostage to yer griping because he was stuck pumping your gas & checking your oil. Hahaha. Poor guy. 55 years later and you can still feel his pain.
Thanks for this! When I was a kid we had close family friends that ran a Texaco station in Beatrice Nebraska. They were my brothers and I third set of grandparents. Great memories!
The television commercials; you can trust you car to the man who wears the star, the big bright Texaco Star. Oh those old commercials. Service was regular, not a luxury. Flying commercial airlines was special. Everything was so nice back then and young people today will never know what it was like. This is why they were the good old days.
I mowed lawns for money in the late 60's. Always loved it when the local stations would have a "gas war" between them! The Marathon guys even fixed my lawnmower once! People today can't comprehend a time like that.
@@IronBlockChef , I remember buying a Honda CRX HF in 1991 to save gas, it never gets below 52 mpg, still running good as new and has never broke down.
You all are forgetting about inflation. In 1973, minimum wage was 1.35 per hour. Makes that 25, 35 cents per gallon not sound so cheap. So basically you could get about 4 gallons for 1 hour work. I filled my car today , 10,21,19 paid 4.29 per gallon. That's about 17 dollars for 4 gallons. Roughly the same as then.
My father patronized a Sinclair station back in the 60s that was owned by a gentleman named Alex. I had the impression that no one would ever measure up to Alex, in the eyes of my father. That station is still there, only now it's a BP Amoco station. Alex later worked for Kaiser Jeep before AMC took over the Jeep product line.
@@bigworldparty I run a hopped up 225 Odd Fire (Kenne Bell equipped, MSD, too much carb, fat headers, 4 speed w/ warn overdrive...) in my hot rod Flatfender. Windshield down, goggles and a grin!
Ahh simpler times!! I'm 61 & my Dad had a Sunoco gas station on Rt. 82 in Eaton township. In Northern Ohio. Main route for travel! My older brother & I pumped gas, washed customers windows. That was a must, that even if the customer wanted 50 cents worth of gas you cleaned their WINDSHIELD. And ask to check their oil!! Now there is NO customer service! But those days taught me to be kind, considerate & respectful to everyone!!! My father instilled that in myself & my older brother! If you want to make a living being self-employed you learn to be respectful! It taught me responsibility! And that's how I raised my children! Today most kids are always with their hands out!! AND LAZY!!! Playing their video games. They don't have any chores to do cause their NOT be taught by their parents! Not taught anything about life & being responsible!!🤔
What happened to full service gas stations? Where the attendants pumped your gas, checked the oil levels, cleaned your windshield, checked your tire pressure, and more? Sometimes things like this from the past need to be brought back.
Jeffrey Duckett remember they had air lines out when you pulled in it went ding ding and the attendant would run out to take care of all your motoring needs
Cost cutting has gradually killed these kinds of services. Everyone’s looking for a higher profit margin, so you start cutting services so you can provide gas more cheaply than the guy next door.
A Publix grocery store where I live has complete check out lanes and they bag your stuff too...but it's a bit expensive store. I hate the "octopus"...the card swipe reader...card companies know of everything you buy and do. Card companies make lots of money too...you don't have a clue how much they charge. It should be included on sales receipts.
This is a training video produced by Texaco for the station or prospective station owner on how to succeed and grow your business. A basics on the how to.
The year I was born. I remember seeing things change at my local filling station, crappy plastic gifts and beach towels if you collected enough coupons, prices especially. The biggest thing that will be with me forever, is seeing the Newspapers there in 1977, ELVIS DEAD.
I could fill the tank in my 1957 Pontiac Star Chief with premium for $5.00. Then go to McDonalds and get a full meal for $1.00. This was 1969. I bought this car back then for $247.00. It only had 47,000 miles on it and it was clean and in perfect condition.
@@marksauck8481 My first was a 1956 Ford Customline Ranch Wagon (2 door) with T - Bird 312. I called it my 'poor man's Nomad'. Many a night on Van Nuys Boulevard, Mullholland and at the beach. My second was a 1953 Olds 'Rocket' 88. I later had a Roman Red 1959 Impala Sport Coupe with 348. When that seized it got a 409 Hipo. All on low budget, 'back in the day.
today a customer wold never be allowed to watch under car while mechanic works on it ! notice the lady smoking while it being filled 6.04 min hilarious as hell ! ah the glory of the 60s god i miss it !
There was a sign advertising a local Texaco service station on I-45 at one of the turn offs at Huntsville Texas, the station closed in the late 70s but the sign remained for almost 40 years, advertising gas at 75 cents a gallon. And we were bitchin' back then about that price . Ah memories.
Fun fact, gas is cheaper now than it was in the 1950s. People don't think about the *value* of each dollar, only the raw number, and sure 2.34 is larger than .34, but when inflation is taken into account it's actually less. By quite a bit.
63 Buick skylark just like my moms.. wish I had that Car now... great vid ! Our boss always drove the gas stations Jeep to work every day.., I love Mrs Bullwinkles Desoto and the old Credit Card Machines, I used to use those daily .. 29 cents a gallon woooohooo!
that is call work n respect....all uniform at the time was special😃now life is out of order...lost now respect is gone for ever sad😩thank for that nice time travel😁
I was 7 when this film was made, but I lived in New York City (The Bronx actually) and my family didn't have or need a car. However, there were businesses tha I recall that followed the same rules of customer service. We had a butcher and a tailor. A grocery, but not what you would call a supermarket. You would get personal service from these establishments. And my step-dad owned a store named Allerton Card and Toy. This store carried school supplies, chemistry sets, plastic models, Lofts candies, and Hallmark greeting cards. He had two women working for him, Iris and Connie, and they knew every greeting card they had. When someone walked in and said that they were looking for a card for their grandson, for instance, they would look at the person and ask a question or two, and would show them a few cards. Invariable, the customer would find a suitable one from their selection. The customers were very loyal to the store, but many passed away an others moved away. These residents were replaced by others that would rather shop at department stores where the service was not as valued as price. It''s hard to imagine this kind of service today. It's like from another planet, really. I'm grateful that these films can be seen today on UA-cam. There are some viewers who probably say that this is a load of crap, that nothing could have been like that, but it's true.
Customer service is almost, almost fully gone from American society, fortunately it still survives in other countries. In my adopted country of Argentina, they still will clean your windshield for you as you gas-up, further, they will not let you pump your own gas....very much like my home-state of Oregon when I left 16 yrs ago.
I can barely remember these days, when someone filled up your tank for you. By the time I got old enough to drive in the late 70s, those days were over and you pumped your own and they didnt wax anything.
I'd rather put a tiger in my tank at the Esso station, later to become Exxon. What was the brand that had the green dinosaur? It wasn't Union, Standard, or Pure.
...and they were psychologists too. That woman griping at him is the reason we have self service gas stations today... and no tires out front because they'd be stolen in seconds, and they'd leave a trail of trash when they left.
When it was Rocky's Shell on the corner of Kings and Route 25 in Carpentersville, you could get tires changed, balanced and inflated, an oil change, windshield washed, a fill up and much more. And Shell back in the day had a proud slogan *Service Is Our Business*. The Shell is still there, but in the place of the service area is just a convenience store.
The 9 O'Clock Gun in Vancouver once had several stones thrown into it. When it fired, one of the stones punctured the sign of a Texaco floating gas station for boats, right in the 'O'. The gas station was moved out of the line of fire after that.
I'd say this was produced in 1965, because the Texaco sign displayed out front was the new one that appeared that year- like this magazine ad illustrated: www.picclickimg.com/d/w1600/pict/352630994838_/Original-1965-Texaco-Magazine-Ad-Service-Patrol.jpg
aaah yes, free set of drinking glasses with a fill up, along with free windshield scrapers, and don't forget free road maps, free calendars, then there was something called S&H green stamps, a pickup full got mom a pair of new knitting needles, kind of like saving the "miles" from Marlboro smokes.
Ah yes my first public job was a Chevron Service Station in 1972 I think it was because I was only fifteen years old and I made fivety cents an hour,And it was full service all the way!!!!You pull in and get a buck worth of gas and you had to check under the hood and clean the windshield and more if they asked you,also check the air pressure in each tire!!!!Thank them and tell them to hurry back!!!!!
I remember those days when gas stations were like that with a garage and soda machines inside unfortunately things will never be like they were in the 1960s and 1970s
I had one of those red steel Buddy L Texaco 'Fire Chief' trucks as a kid, from our local Texaco Station. They were displayed exactly as shown at 02:55 for suburban kids to lust after until Santa brought one - what a flashback!
I also remember when gas went to 79 cents a gallon. We were on vacation and my dad stopped into a service station and spent the entire time berating the attendant about the price and how charging 79 cents for a gallon of gas was almost criminal.
i agree with your dad, but it was criminal act. it was a criminal act then and continues today. in my area it was 1.99 4 weeks ago, now it's 2.60, quickly rising now. but rest assuredly with Biden in office and pete what's his name as his transportation secretary gas prices will go thru the roof. they want to put a device on your car to check your miles driven and tax you on it. they are gonna' rip our guts out. Big Brother has arrived.
@@williammorgan8786 Im not sure about all that.....but I miss the 70s, 3 million fewer laws, 10 million less ordinances, and somehow we got along fine and were happy.
FUNNY! I recall watching the news in 1979 when they announced that gas would cost more than one dollar and I asked my dad, "How can they do that, there's only two dial on the pump." He said, "They're gonna have to make new pumps."
My dad worked at a station for many years and if anyone tried to berate him like that or blame him for high gas prices, he'd lierally shut the pump off and tell them to get the hell out of his station. He was always willing to help people if they asked, but he also wouldn't take their shit either. You never bite the hand that can help you. It never hurt his business either
Their brand of gasoline was "Fire Chief" When they posted the price per gallon, I thought they were giving a special discount to fire chiefs, so they can always have their tank full and ready to go to a fire.
We're always gonna pine for the "good ol' days" -- when life was "simpler" and the country was more innocent and people knew how to behave. And I guarantee you that the smarmy, arrogant and entitled youths of 2021 will be saying the same damned thing in 50 years. Just one observation I've made looking back at the snapshots of my life, that if "progress" can be measured by how we treat each other now as opposed to 59 years ago, we've made no progress at all -- in fact have REgressed. I'll take the civility and common courtesy and self-respect that were the social standard back in the early 60s to what we've become 50-some years later, every single time.
Mrs. Harney at the 4:04 mark is kinda hittin on Russ... Showing up in a bathrobe, no bra... Casually mentioning that hubby is taking a long trip to the state capital. Just hanging out smoking a cigarette. No hurry to leave. She mentioned to Russ that she was worried about a leaky bathroom faucet might cause a flood while her hubby is out of town...Of course Russ said he can make another one of those door-to-door visits as shown at the 10:06 mark. He assured Mrs. Harney it is no problem at all. He will stop buy at lunch time and "take care" of the problem.
sends out bills --cashes checks---washes windows--checks oil---adds air to tires----try that today----but full service --so no runoffs--no nasty restrooms lol
back when the little things mattered and you cared about standards no matter how trivial. having high standards doesnt always pay well but gains respect. and to have the customer watch meant trust. so many values here are just gone and will never be the same
I remember a commercial that had Ethel Merman for Texaco. She had a big Lincoln getting serviced. Her brassy voice was interesting, to say the least. I think Ella Fitzgerald (for Memorex) and Rosemary Clooney (for Georgia-Pacific) was a bit later. "You can trust your car" and "Go-go-go-go Goodyear" are etched into my brain...
My uncle had a Pure station on 6 and greenfield in Detroit. He’d train his guys to slit a hose, grove a belt, drop some oil on the ground with the hood up, put a nail in the tire, then tell the lady what needed to be fixed. Made a fortune, moved to Bloomfield hills
Those old infloor single-column hydraulic lifts had safeties, a rod alongside the lift cylinder with a catch that automatically engaged a notch every few inches of lift. Yet I did know of a guy killed when somebody defeated the safety. You did have to use a little common sense.
I grew up in the '50's and '60's and never saw this. Not once. If the guy did wear a uniform it had dirt and grease stains before noon. Anyway, the oil embargo of the mid '70's is when self-service started being offered as a way to save on gasoline at the pump.
My brother and I ran a Texaco station for 2 years in the mid 1970's. We never made a profit - I never got a paycheck (my brother's wife supported us - she was a school teacher). Worse yet - we borrowed $10K from a bank...when we closed down (after getting robbed)..we got jobs and paid off every nickel on that loan. Was very painful bad times.
@@scottjohnson8316 Pretty much! Gas stations didn't earn shite off gasoline - earnings came from car repairs and tires. Revenue from gas sales wasn't even enough to pay the electric bill. (I ran a Texaco station for a while 🙁) Oil companies made the money.
I remember how this was when I was a kid growing up. Todays service stations are a joke!!, They would never sweep, clean pumps, or even give you a Thank you for doing business at the station. My how times have changed, and for the worse!!, Would love to go back to this simpler time in History.
Subject line says 1962. I was waiting for a shot of the restroom doors (2:28), or water fountains. Odd, every station in my neck of the woods had three restrooms and two water fountains. They really were called service stations, though. And air and water were always free, even if you didn't make a purchase. In most places, it was illegal for the customer to pump their own gas. Just maybe the change to allow customer pumping was a big contributor to the end of the 'service' station?
Wow how retail has gone downhill, and i've witnessed it myself where i worked at and i noticed the same at competing stores. Today: Cars repairable only by car dealerships who have expensive analyzing equipment specific only to the make they sell, so no more gas station repair garages. Self-serve corner stores where idiots leave their cars blocking the gas pumps while they go inside to order counter food and lottery tickets. High gas taxes. High franchise fees and low profit margins for store owners. Low wages for workers and no benefits. Can't hire anyone to clean because you can do without people who don't collect the money. No need to compete. All other stations in the neighborhood would be like that too.
These service station men were well respected in our town in the 1960s when I was growing up. It' unbelievable how things have changed in 50 years for the worse.
These 7 dislikers are the millenials who don't value old videos and etiquette !!!
These gas station men looked like todays Police officers!!
scdevon
Many self serve and convenience store pumps today are simply filthy. Diesel residue trash bacteria and probably some std’s too
Imagine have a gas station along route 66 in Arizona, in 1960 era. That had to be interesting. Thanks friends.
My dad was a gas station guy, he was like the mayor, always checked your oil, clean your windshield and chatted with customer if they wanted, when he died, no kidding, a couple dozen people came to his funeral, because they got to know him over the years, I met a guy a decade after he died, we got talking about the past, he tells me a story of being broke and how some gas station attendant filled up his tank and said, pay me when you can, he said the town and it was a guy named Frank, my Dad, we were both shocked. That was my father, great guy.🙏
John, your dad sounded like a real gem, I wish I could have met him, what a fine fella. God rest his soul .
@@randycollins7910 That’s how Gas station guy was too during the 1970s the gas shortage that we had he only service his regular customers
Then the new store came where you do it yourself, you can buy lotto ticket and food on the shelf...
God bless your late Father!💕🥀
Did he pay him back though joke no you're dad sounds like he was a nice guy RIP.
Man I love this film ! Better than most garbage on tv. These films educate you and inspire you! Thank you!
What was really nice was that so many service stations had a mechanic on duty. They would also patch bicycle inner tubes for a dime.
My first job was in a Golf station in 1968 when I was 16 and then worked in Arco, Shell and Texaco over the next half dozen years. It's where and when I learned how important customer service is. Nothing changed over the years from this video until the start of self-service. It taught me to take pride in my work and that carried through my whole working life and into my retirement days.
"Pride in your work." What's that!?
Never heard of a golf station
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@@williamtaylor5922 no?? They sell golf clubs
I own a tire retail/ auto repair store- I have my staff watch this and other videos from this channel. What worked over 50s ago still applies today. Sadly, it’s hard to find in many businesses.
My friend’s dad had a station like this one. And he was a well liked community father and businessman. A small sized gas station in the 60’s. But very clean, always. And popular among all the neighboring residents. Very convenient . Fast fill ups. Just classic in appearance!
My first job, grocery sacker and carry out. Second, Conoco station attendant (also in uniform). Except for the brand, it looked almost identical to this Texaco. We did virtually the same thing in the same order too. A much kinder gentler America in those days....sigh.
I pumped gas, but we sold cigarettes too, customers constantly complaining about cigarettes costing 65 cents a pack. Fifty cents of that being the new federal tobacco tax.
Not sure about kinder and gentler- there was a nuclear sword of Damocles hanging overhead. 1962 was the Cuban missile crisis
@@davestewart2067 But at the end of the day both sides kept things from going too far. It isn't the unpredictable anarchy that goes on today. I went from training to fight the Soviets to having to trying to learn multiple doctrines of fighting for a future of endless wars when I was in.
I love how the lady in curlers just having a cigarette while you filler up
Ahh, the good ol days, when you could complain about your life troubles to a gas station attendant and he was a hostage to yer griping because he was stuck pumping your gas & checking your oil. Hahaha. Poor guy. 55 years later and you can still feel his pain.
took the words outta my mouth! WoW! lol
Lloyd Bonafide should’ve put down the cigarette
She goes the gas station twice in same day
LMAO....I would give anything to go back to those days again ! 29 cents a gal
64 Impala arrives in 1962 I knew there are time machines.
I was going to make a similar comment. No way this could be from 1962...
James W specially with that 64 license plate.
More likely 1964 to 1965, but a fun video anyhow.
Yeah saw it too..
@Ralph Goober Not two years prior.
Also, test bed models and prototypes were kept concealed from the public until close to their time of release.
Thanks for this! When I was a kid we had close family friends that ran a Texaco station in Beatrice Nebraska. They were my brothers and I third set of grandparents. Great memories!
The television commercials; you can trust you car to the man who wears the star, the big bright Texaco Star. Oh those old commercials. Service was regular, not a luxury. Flying commercial airlines was special. Everything was so nice back then and young people today will never know what it was like. This is why they were the good old days.
I like how the attendants all wore hats and uniforms back then. Crisp, clean and classy.
You can trust your car to the man who wears the star... I'll never forget my dad bitchin about gas going over 24 cents a gallon.
LOL I remember this exact thing. My old man, arguing with the Guy at Weigels, who was changing the pump from 23 to 24 cents a gallon. Circa 1971.
I mowed lawns for money in the late 60's. Always loved it when the local stations would have a "gas war" between them! The Marathon guys even fixed my lawnmower once! People today can't comprehend a time like that.
I remember bitching about 1.28 gallon in 2001
@@IronBlockChef , I remember buying a Honda CRX HF in 1991 to save gas, it never gets below 52 mpg, still running good as new and has never broke down.
You all are forgetting about inflation. In 1973, minimum wage was 1.35 per hour. Makes that 25, 35 cents per gallon not sound so cheap. So basically you could get about 4 gallons for 1 hour work. I filled my car today , 10,21,19 paid 4.29 per gallon. That's about 17 dollars for 4 gallons. Roughly the same as then.
my uncle had a signal gas station in the 50s and 60s he worked so hard i remember when i was a kid
This brings back great memories of the Texaco station we frequented, Dickson and Townsend's. If only life and cars were that simple today.
My father patronized a Sinclair station back in the 60s that was owned by a gentleman named Alex. I had the impression that no one would ever measure up to Alex, in the eyes of my father. That station is still there, only now it's a BP Amoco station. Alex later worked for Kaiser Jeep before AMC took over the Jeep product line.
I like the Kaiser Jeep CJ% in the opening scene of this.
@@-oiiio-3993Noticed the CJ-5 as well. I use to own a 1970 Kaiser CJ-5 (with the 225 odd-fire V6), had a lot of fun with that vehicle.
@@bigworldparty I run a hopped up 225 Odd Fire (Kenne Bell equipped, MSD, too much carb, fat headers, 4 speed w/ warn overdrive...) in my hot rod Flatfender.
Windshield down, goggles and a grin!
at 11:48 you can see a 1964 New York Worlds Fair License Plate on that 1964 Oldsmobile Cutlass
Good catch!
Ahh simpler times!! I'm 61 & my Dad had a Sunoco gas station on Rt. 82 in Eaton township. In Northern Ohio. Main route for travel! My older brother & I pumped gas, washed customers windows. That was a must, that even if the customer wanted 50 cents worth of gas you cleaned their WINDSHIELD. And ask to check their oil!! Now there is NO customer service! But those days taught me to be kind, considerate & respectful to everyone!!! My father instilled that in myself & my older brother! If you want to make a living being self-employed you learn to be respectful! It taught me responsibility! And that's how I raised my children! Today most kids are always with their hands out!! AND LAZY!!! Playing their video games. They don't have any chores to do cause their NOT be taught by their parents! Not taught anything about life & being responsible!!🤔
WELL SAID BROTHER!.
You tell ‘em Sammy!!
What happened to full service gas stations? Where the attendants pumped your gas, checked the oil levels, cleaned your windshield, checked your tire pressure, and more? Sometimes things like this from the past need to be brought back.
Jeffrey Duckett remember they had air lines out when you pulled in it went ding ding and the attendant would run out to take care of all your motoring needs
What happened? Integration of public schools. Everything took a turn for the worse.
Full service stations are a thing of the past..
@grumpy old fart / flying cars.
Cost cutting has gradually killed these kinds of services. Everyone’s looking for a higher profit margin, so you start cutting services so you can provide gas more cheaply than the guy next door.
Today we pump our gas ourselves, and we scan, bag, pay for our groceries ourselves! Good old days are missed!
A Publix grocery store where I live has complete check out lanes and they bag your stuff too...but it's a bit expensive store.
I hate the "octopus"...the card swipe reader...card companies know of everything you buy and do. Card companies make lots of money too...you don't have a clue how much they charge. It should be included on sales receipts.
Pretty Soon Gas Stations Will Be Replaced With EV Charging Stations.
@@cliffsaxon5493 Our grid can't even sustain itself in a typical winter these days. No way will it be able to accommodate millions of EVs!
This is a training video produced by Texaco for the station or prospective station owner on how to succeed and grow your business. A basics on the how to.
The year I was born. I remember seeing things change at my local filling station, crappy plastic gifts and beach towels if you collected enough coupons, prices especially. The biggest thing that will be with me forever, is seeing the Newspapers there in 1977, ELVIS DEAD.
I remember my dad pulling in to a filling Station as they called them back in the day and saying
Give me two bucks worth of regular
Jack Benny - _"I'll have a gallon."_
Of course, in 1962 two dollars would be closer to eight gallons.
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I could fill the tank in my 1957 Pontiac Star Chief with premium for $5.00. Then go to McDonalds and get a full meal for $1.00. This was 1969. I bought this car back then for $247.00. It only had 47,000 miles on it and it was clean and in perfect condition.
@@marksauck8481 My first was a 1956 Ford Customline Ranch Wagon (2 door) with T - Bird 312. I called it my 'poor man's Nomad'. Many a night on Van Nuys Boulevard, Mullholland and at the beach.
My second was a 1953 Olds 'Rocket' 88. I later had a Roman Red 1959 Impala Sport Coupe with 348. When that seized it got a 409 Hipo. All on low budget, 'back in the day.
There is a new Texaco station opening in my neighborhood ( Auburn California) I do remember the Texaco commercials that Bob Hope use to star in..👍
Jack Benny, as well:
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Put that cigarette out around the pumps!!
My first job at 14 was a Texaco station where I did full service and change tires.
Phil Tonken announced a lot of radio and TV commercials at the time, as well as worked as a staff announcer for WOR-AM and WOR-TV in New York.
That's not true... you make up more SH*T than anyone else on the entire You Tube system !
today a customer wold never be allowed to watch under car while mechanic works on it ! notice the lady smoking while it being filled 6.04 min hilarious as hell ! ah the glory of the 60s god i miss it !
There was a sign advertising a local Texaco service station on I-45 at one of the turn offs at Huntsville Texas, the station closed in the late 70s but the sign remained for almost 40 years, advertising gas at 75 cents a gallon.
And we were bitchin' back then about that price .
Ah memories.
Fun fact, gas is cheaper now than it was in the 1950s. People don't think about the *value* of each dollar, only the raw number, and sure 2.34 is larger than .34, but when inflation is taken into account it's actually less. By quite a bit.
"YOU CAN TRUST YOUR CAR TO THE MAN WHO WEARS THE STAR..."❣️
63 Buick skylark just like my moms.. wish I had that Car now... great vid ! Our boss always drove the gas stations Jeep to work every day.., I love Mrs Bullwinkles Desoto and the old Credit Card Machines, I used to use those daily .. 29 cents a gallon woooohooo!
Remember the book of bad cards? That's the one thing I don't miss.
Her son had graduated from Wossamotta U and become a TV star, teamed with a flying squirrel.
People had class and respect in those days.
that is call work n respect....all uniform at the time was special😃now life is out of order...lost now respect is gone for ever sad😩thank for that nice time travel😁
I was 7 when this film was made, but I lived in New York City (The Bronx actually) and my family didn't have or need a car. However, there were businesses tha I recall that followed the same rules of customer service. We had a butcher and a tailor. A grocery, but not what you would call a supermarket. You would get personal service from these establishments. And my step-dad owned a store named Allerton Card and Toy. This store carried school supplies, chemistry sets, plastic models, Lofts candies, and Hallmark greeting cards. He had two women working for him, Iris and Connie, and they knew every greeting card they had. When someone walked in and said that they were looking for a card for their grandson, for instance, they would look at the person and ask a question or two, and would show them a few cards. Invariable, the customer would find a suitable one from their selection. The customers were very loyal to the store, but many passed away an others moved away. These residents were replaced by others that would rather shop at department stores where the service was not as valued as price.
It''s hard to imagine this kind of service today. It's like from another planet, really. I'm grateful that these films can be seen today on UA-cam. There are some viewers who probably say that this is a load of crap, that nothing could have been like that, but it's true.
Who else here remembers the pumps with the lit up round disks on top?
Customer service is almost, almost fully gone from American society, fortunately it still survives in other countries. In my adopted country of Argentina, they still will clean your windshield for you as you gas-up, further, they will not let you pump your own gas....very much like my home-state of Oregon when I left 16 yrs ago.
I can barely remember these days, when someone filled up your tank for you. By the time I got old enough to drive in the late 70s, those days were over and you pumped your own and they didnt wax anything.
The last one I remember doing full service was a small independent gas station near where I lived, and that was mid '80s.
60 Years Ago. How Time flies.
I always Trust my car to the man who wears the star...The Big Red Texaco Star!
I'd rather put a tiger in my tank at the Esso station, later to become Exxon. What was the brand that had the green dinosaur? It wasn't Union, Standard, or Pure.
@Liberty Tree My Dad always 'traded' at the Sinclair near our house. It is now a 'commemorative' station, fully restored.
Until he has it towed off,lol,
@@gsp49 Sinclair.
...and they were psychologists too. That woman griping at him is the reason we have self service gas stations today... and no tires out front because they'd be stolen in seconds, and they'd leave a trail of trash when they left.
That may have been the best restoration that could be done. Film deteriorates.
When it was Rocky's Shell on the corner of Kings and Route 25 in Carpentersville, you could get tires changed, balanced and inflated, an oil change, windshield washed, a fill up and much more. And Shell back in the day had a proud slogan *Service Is Our Business*. The Shell is still there, but in the place of the service area is just a convenience store.
That is 99% of the gas stations now, really sad to see. My dad saw this coming and sold his station in 93. Really miss those days sometimes
Wow. This top 'notch' service! Incredible!!!!!
Once entirely common.
The 9 O'Clock Gun in Vancouver once had several stones thrown into it. When it fired, one of the stones punctured the sign of a Texaco floating gas station for boats, right in the 'O'. The gas station was moved out of the line of fire after that.
This cant be 1962...there's a 1964 Chevy in the video at 1:25
Also a 1963 Pontiac Safari Station Wagon at 3:06
And a '63 Buick at 3:30.
And a '64 Olds Cutlass, wearing a 1964 NY license plate, at 11:50.
@Ralph Goober - Not with a '64 license plate! See 11:50.
I'd say this was produced in 1965, because the Texaco sign displayed out front was the new one that appeared that year- like this magazine ad illustrated:
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One of my first jobs was at the Texaco station in Northridge, California in 1975.
aaah yes, free set of drinking glasses with a fill up, along with free windshield scrapers, and don't forget free road maps, free calendars, then there was something called S&H green stamps, a pickup full got mom a pair of new knitting needles, kind of like saving the "miles" from Marlboro smokes.
He didn't tell her about the danger of smoking a cigarette next to the gasoline pump while refueling.
Good colutre Thanks.
Ah yes my first public job was a Chevron Service Station in 1972 I think it was because I was only fifteen years old and I made fivety cents an hour,And it was full service all the way!!!!You pull in and get a buck worth of gas and you had to check under the hood and clean the windshield and more if they asked you,also check the air pressure in each tire!!!!Thank them and tell them to hurry back!!!!!
Ther s a Sinclair station that's still full service in Scottsdale Arizona. I think it's the only one in the entire state
I remember those days when gas stations were like that with a garage and soda machines inside unfortunately things will never be like they were in the 1960s and 1970s
I had one of those red steel Buddy L Texaco 'Fire Chief' trucks as a kid, from our local Texaco Station. They were displayed exactly as shown at 02:55 for suburban kids to lust after until Santa brought one - what a flashback!
I also remember when gas went to 79 cents a gallon. We were on vacation and my dad stopped into a service station and spent the entire time berating the attendant about the price and how charging 79 cents for a gallon of gas was almost criminal.
i agree with your dad, but it was criminal act. it was a criminal act then and continues today. in my area it was 1.99 4 weeks ago, now it's 2.60, quickly rising now. but rest assuredly with Biden in office and pete what's his name as his transportation secretary gas prices will go thru the roof. they want to put a device on your car to check your miles driven and tax you on it. they are gonna' rip our guts out. Big Brother has arrived.
@@williammorgan8786 Im not sure about all that.....but I miss the 70s, 3 million fewer laws, 10 million less ordinances, and somehow we got along fine and were happy.
FUNNY! I recall watching the news in 1979 when they announced that gas would cost more than one dollar and I asked my dad, "How can they do that, there's only two dial on the pump." He said, "They're gonna have to make new pumps."
My dad worked at a station for many years and if anyone tried to berate him like that or blame him for high gas prices, he'd lierally shut the pump off and tell them to get the hell out of his station. He was always willing to help people if they asked, but he also wouldn't take their shit either. You never bite the hand that can help you. It never hurt his business either
@@1983jblack Yeah, not many people talked back to my dad, especially me. He was a WW2 vet who owned his own business and took no s**t off anyone.
Their brand of gasoline was "Fire Chief" When they posted the price per gallon, I thought they were giving a special discount to fire chiefs, so they can always have their tank full and ready to go to a fire.
Everything was better in 1964, mostly because we were 55 years younger and because our memories aren't as good as they used to be.
I was 56 yrs younger you got me thinkun🤪
oh my I thought 55 years younger? their really old then I realized I was born in 1958, it's 55 years ago for me!!!!! yuck
We're always gonna pine for the "good ol' days" -- when life was "simpler" and the country was more innocent and people knew how to behave. And I guarantee you that the smarmy, arrogant and entitled youths of 2021 will be saying the same damned thing in 50 years.
Just one observation I've made looking back at the snapshots of my life, that if "progress" can be measured by how we treat each other now as opposed to 59 years ago, we've made no progress at all -- in fact have REgressed. I'll take the civility and common courtesy and self-respect that were the social standard back in the early 60s to what we've become 50-some years later, every single time.
I started driving in 1962.Things were very different.Smoking while pumping gas, checking oil etc.Clean restroom & uniforms.😄
You can trust your car,to the man behind the star!!
6:02 Customer is always right -- even when they're suckin' down a cigarette _two feet away from the _*_GAS HOSE!!!_* WTF!?
Mrs. Harney at the 4:04 mark is kinda hittin on Russ... Showing up in a bathrobe, no bra... Casually mentioning that hubby is taking a long trip to the state capital. Just hanging out smoking a cigarette. No hurry to leave. She mentioned to Russ that she was worried about a leaky bathroom faucet might cause a flood while her hubby is out of town...Of course Russ said he can make another one of those door-to-door visits as shown at the 10:06 mark. He assured Mrs. Harney it is no problem at all. He will stop buy at lunch time and "take care" of the problem.
sends out bills --cashes checks---washes windows--checks oil---adds air to tires----try that today----but full service --so no runoffs--no nasty restrooms lol
And be sure to see "THE TEXACO HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT"- weeknights, NBC Television Network.
back when the little things mattered and you cared about standards no matter how trivial. having high standards doesnt always pay well but gains respect. and to have the customer watch meant trust. so many values here are just gone and will never be the same
The old gas stations had so much personality,they were like the neighborhood town hall
This cannot be 1962. At 1:25, 1964 Chevy Impala appears in the video.
Also there’s a 1964 Olds Cutlass with a 1964 license plate at 11:53
Texaco Gas Station - The Man in the Star (1962)? @ 1:24 a 1964 Chevrolet pulls into the bay.
Texaco had nice clean filling stations , and sold Firestone tires .
I remember a commercial that had Ethel Merman for Texaco. She had a big Lincoln getting serviced. Her brassy voice was interesting, to say the least. I think Ella Fitzgerald (for Memorex) and Rosemary Clooney (for Georgia-Pacific) was a bit later. "You can trust your car" and "Go-go-go-go Goodyear" are etched into my brain...
If this was made in 1962, why is there a '64 Chevy being directed into the service bay?
Good question. And the hexagon shaped Texaco sign didn't exist until 1966.
My uncle had a Pure station on 6 and greenfield in Detroit. He’d train his guys to slit a hose, grove a belt, drop some oil on the ground with the hood up, put a nail in the tire, then tell the lady what needed to be fixed. Made a fortune, moved to Bloomfield hills
When people really gave a damn about things. Good times.
I remember watching the news in 1978 and this guy says if the price of gas goes over $1 a gallon he will just stop driving. Maybe he did...
Smoke em if Ya gotem right in our bay while filling up! We don't care as long as the customer is happy!
And there was ALWAYS that guy who would take out his pocket knife and pick out all of the rocks in his tires while the oil was being changed.
I know fifty others have said this,. But isn't that a 1964 Impala
Yeah, and I owned that 64 olds cutlass in 75, me, 16, first car.
With my oil burner, I'd say check the gas and fill the oil.
Fun to watch....I remember some of this, but I was too young in the 50’s.
1960s.
I worked at a Texaco station I enjoyed that job .
I never saw the men that owned service stations in my hometown sweeping the parking lot!
Those We're The Good Old Days!!!!!!!!
The guy at the beginning in the 1964 Chevy must be a time traveller :->
So back in the 60's your car was more valuable then your home at 5:30.
Was the USA where all things are possible.
It was if you rented.
A nostalgic look at the way gas stations used to be run.
Wow! No lotto machine, no squishy machine or junk food. My dad had a green ‘64 Oldsmobile F-85 just like the one at 11:52.
Nothing says safety like letting the customer stand under the lift or another smoke at the gas pumps.
Those old infloor single-column hydraulic lifts had safeties, a rod alongside the lift cylinder with a catch that automatically engaged a notch every few inches of lift. Yet I did know of a guy killed when somebody defeated the safety. You did have to use a little common sense.
Yes these men served the community......amazing , absolutely amazing. When and why did this all stop?
I grew up in the '50's and '60's and never saw this. Not once. If the guy did wear a uniform it had dirt and grease stains before noon. Anyway, the oil embargo of the mid '70's is when self-service started being offered as a way to save on gasoline at the pump.
Wow so all those cheery idealistic service ads from the 50’s were bs??
@@scottjohnson8316 The ads did not reflect reality then just as they don't now.
Yes, I know you were being sarcastic.
My brother and I ran a Texaco station for 2 years in the mid 1970's. We never made a profit - I never got a paycheck (my brother's wife supported us - she was a school teacher). Worse yet - we borrowed $10K from a bank...when we closed down (after getting robbed)..we got jobs and paid off every nickel on that loan. Was very painful bad times.
@@scottjohnson8316 Pretty much! Gas stations didn't earn shite off gasoline - earnings came from car repairs and tires. Revenue from gas sales wasn't even enough to pay the electric bill.
(I ran a Texaco station for a while 🙁)
Oil companies made the money.
love the oldies
I remember how this was when I was a kid growing up. Todays service stations are a joke!!, They would never sweep, clean pumps, or even give you a Thank you for doing business at the station. My how times have changed, and for the worse!!, Would love to go back to this simpler time in History.
And now they have screens that blast ads and other pop culture nonsense at you at high volume as you pump it yourself!
@@Progrocker70 Yes Joe, They do!!
Cold calling for a gas station. Who'd a thought.
Simpler time just like home happy memories
An America we'll never see again.
Well everything was going well until the lady with the cigarette blew up the man with the star at 6:04
And then discount gas, independent repair shops and self service pumps undercut him, causing him to fire his employees and file for bankruptcy.
"You can trust your car to the man that wears the Star"🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵
Like the man in the Simpson's 7-11 says "Hurry up and buy your stuff and get out of here" "But come again soon".
I like the lady smoking at a gas pump!
Subject line says 1962. I was waiting for a shot of the restroom doors (2:28), or water fountains. Odd, every station in my neck of the woods had three restrooms and two water fountains.
They really were called service stations, though. And air and water were always free, even if you didn't make a purchase.
In most places, it was illegal for the customer to pump their own gas. Just maybe the change to allow customer pumping was a big contributor to the end of the 'service' station?
You must have been south of the Mason-Dixon line.
.29 to .33 cents a gallon wow Fill me up and the great service back then. You well never see that again.
This is amazing 👍
Wow how retail has gone downhill, and i've witnessed it myself where i worked at and i noticed the same at competing stores. Today: Cars repairable only by car dealerships who have expensive analyzing equipment specific only to the make they sell, so no more gas station repair garages. Self-serve corner stores where idiots leave their cars blocking the gas pumps while they go inside to order counter food and lottery tickets. High gas taxes. High franchise fees and low profit margins for store owners. Low wages for workers and no benefits. Can't hire anyone to clean because you can do without people who don't collect the money. No need to compete. All other stations in the neighborhood would be like that too.