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.🙏
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!!🤔
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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 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!
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 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...
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.
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 !
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
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.
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 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!
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😁
...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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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!
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.
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.
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.
Man I love this film ! Better than most garbage on tv. These films educate you and inspire you! Thank you!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@@Inb4theban , 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.
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.
I was hoping there was going to be a massive explosion and this whole film would suddenly morph into a fire safety and rescue film. 😊
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
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.
Put that cigarette out around the pumps!!
my uncle had a signal gas station in the 50s and 60s he worked so hard i remember when i was a kid
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!!
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
He didn't tell her about the danger of smoking a cigarette next to the gasoline pump while refueling.
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!
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.
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.
ua-cam.com/video/cOTxW1ZMZ50/v-deo.html
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 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!
at 11:48 you can see a 1964 New York Worlds Fair License Plate on that 1964 Oldsmobile Cutlass
Good catch!
I like how the attendants all wore hats and uniforms back then. Crisp, clean and classy.
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.
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.
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.
Smoke em if Ya gotem right in our bay while filling up! We don't care as long as the customer is happy!
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
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
6:02 Customer is always right -- even when they're suckin' down a cigarette _two feet away from the _*_GAS HOSE!!!_* WTF!?
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.
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 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!
Today .... Hey hurry up I ain't got all day slow poke.
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 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...
love the oldies
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.
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 !
Says 1962. But there are several cars here from 1964???
I also spied a '63 Buick.
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:
www.picclickimg.com/d/w1600/pict/352630994838_/Original-1965-Texaco-Magazine-Ad-Service-Patrol.jpg
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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😁
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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With my oil burner, I'd say check the gas and fill the oil.
Ther s a Sinclair station that's still full service in Scottsdale Arizona. I think it's the only one in the entire state
Simpler time just like home happy memories
...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 people really gave a damn about things. Good times.
The guy at the beginning in the 1964 Chevy must be a time traveller :->
This brings back great memories of the Texaco station we frequented, Dickson and Townsend's. If only life and cars were that simple today.
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.
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.
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 !
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
What happened to America ?
Time.
People had class and respect in those days.
And be sure to see "THE TEXACO HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT"- weeknights, NBC Television Network.
And then discount gas, independent repair shops and self service pumps undercut him, causing him to fire his employees and file for bankruptcy.
today you can;t even get cops to put on a uniform.
"YOU CAN TRUST YOUR CAR TO THE MAN WHO 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".
its not 1962
modern fuel stations look like a big plastic piece of shit & the service disappeared a very long time ago. shitty overpriced gas too.
Lady is puffing away on a butt sitting next to the gas pumps....what could possibly be wrong with that?
My first job at 14 was a Texaco station where I did full service and change tires.
At 6:04, the customer is SMOKING alongside the pump!!!
Hope that Russ has good insurance.
Well everything was going well until the lady with the cigarette blew up the man with the star at 6:04
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.
Texaco Gas Station - The Man in the Star (1962)? @ 1:24 a 1964 Chevrolet pulls into the bay.
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.
Cold calling for a gas station. Who'd a thought.
The film flickering made me jittery, had to click off.
When was the last time you saw a service station stocked with automotive products? Nowadays, some of them pass themselves off as head shops. 😵
Who else here remembers the pumps with the lit up round disks on top?
Russ was the man. Legend 💪
You can trust your car,to the man behind the star!!
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.
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.
Apparently, back then, they didn't care about smoking (6:03) while filling a car up with gas?
.29 to .33 cents a gallon wow Fill me up and the great service back then. You well never see that again.
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
Hmmmm Smoking cigarettes and gasoline, what could possibly go wrong?
King's Texaco in Redmond, Oregon! Now it's a US Bank.
has to be 64, look at the chevy entering the garage
Actually it's "The Man With The Star. The Big Bright Texaco Star".
TRUST YOUR CAR TO THE MAN WHO WEARS THE STAR ........
But Russ has a secret: He smokes MARIHUANA!
Brilliant.
I like to see people looking like that at the gas station. Lol
There should be an epilepsy warning added to this video with all the flashing.
I like the lady smoking at a gas pump!
Texaco had nice clean filling stations , and sold Firestone tires .
An America we'll never see again.
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.