57.4¢/gallon and 60.4¢/gallon
I knew you’d want to know if the gas pumps still showed a price, and they do. I am not a gasoline-price historian (or any kind of historian, for that matter) so this valuable clue about when this station was last operational is lost on me.
Perhaps the One Day | One Image Research Department (Yes! We have our own research department.) could investigate and report back.
I can tell you, though, that Flite-Fuel is the more expensive one.
Sudan,Texas
photographed 5.25.2013
Posted on September 14, 2013, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, black and white photography, gasoline prices, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, sudan, sudan texas, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 11 Comments.
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If we assume that the far right digit is the 9/10 cent digit, that leaves 2 digits for the price. Nationwide, gas hit $1/gal in 1980, so we can assume (you know what that means) that these pumps haven’t been used for more than 30 years. OMG! They’re collector items! They’re worth a fortune on eBay!
BTW, very nice photo but the neighborhood looks a little run down.
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I’ll be going through Sudan next weekend, so maybe I should stop and get those pumps? If I can get a good price on eBay, it could help finance my retirement!
BTW, the neighborhood is rundown, but you can get a burrito. And more. http://bit.ly/18fa2Od
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Those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end…
Oh by the way, in the United States, the retail price of a gallon of gasoline rose from a national average of 38.5 cents in May 1973 to 55.1 cents in June 1974.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis ).
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It makes sens that if one had to flee one would buy the more expensive and powerful gasoline….flight-gasoline.
I well remember that In the 60s a gallon of gasoline cost 30 cents in Texas and Arizona. I do not remember what a gallon of milk cost …
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Good point, Vera, about using the better quality gasoline!
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Your research department is trumped. Best we came up with (for Texas) was pre-79 http://bit.ly/n34VW
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And according to this table the annual US gas price in 1973 was 39cents and 54cents the next year. If gas prices cheaper in Texas, then somewhere in late 73 or 74 seems most likely. They never came down after that. http://1.usa.gov/gzkY1N
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Thank you, Research Department, for working double on a Saturday. The usual weekend rates will apply for your services.
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Flite Fuel!? An interesting series of scenarios fly through my mind. Does that somehow imply go-faster fuel. One thing amazes me about the USA – and that is how things get abandoned and there they stay 30years later (according to Ken’s calculations).
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It seems like if you’d filled your tank with Flite Fuel and then got pulled over for speeding, it might be prudent to say you were running on the cheap Sixty Six stuff!
As someone who loves to photograph the process of decay on these abandoned buildings, I am glad that’s how it works. But it is odd that they’d just be left there, for decades. One thing that intrigues me is how often these old places are still filled with furniture and files and other detritus, as though the owners just walked away one evening and never came back. And I see it a lot; it’s far from an anomaly.
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Reblogged this on Sudan Hub Foundation .
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