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Old Stuff ... Pics / old Ads etc

I remember one time back in about 1964 during a gas price 'war', gas was 19.9 cents a gallon. Two bucks filled up the tank on my 1957 Ford.
 
I remember one time back in about 1964 during a gas price 'war', gas was 19.9 cents a gallon. Two bucks filled up the tank on my 1957 Ford.
In 1964 CLARK stations in St Louis were in a gas war with the big names like TEXACO and STANDARD OIL. Gas was $0.12 a gallon. I filled my 24 gallon Pontiac Starchief for under three bucks.

But then it only got 6 to 8 MPG.
 
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We did that with TOPPS Baseball Cards ... something that, in retrospect, seems like it was probably financial folly, given the value of some of those cards if they would be in mint condition.
 
Good ole TOPPS. I have a direct connection with that company. I have four machines they used to collate the card sets. Bought them brand new when they closed their Scranton PA plant in 1996.

I don't do card sets any more but, those machines are still running today in my plant.
 
I sure do remember that stuff. My mother thought that mercurochrome was the answer to every cut and scrape. She also thought that every cough, cold, and chest congestion should be treated with Vicks Vapor Rub. I didn't mind the mercurochrome so much, but I hated that greasy Vicks stuff.
Same here. I had to lay under a lot of blankets when I had a fever. You had to "sweat it out".
 
The McDonald brothers in front of the not yet opened first McDonald’s, November 1948, San Bernadino, CA

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The original restaurant began operation in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant run by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald and was named "McDonald's Famous Barbeque" and served over forty barbequed items.

Ray Kroc who is often credited with starting McDonalds came into the picture in 1954. He bought McDonalds in 1961 for 2.3 million.
 
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