therobski

I found this picture I though I would share of a 53 Olds filling up at a Marathon gas station and a picture of my 53 , back in around 64....

redoldsman

I didn't notice the STP sticker on your 53 before. They were good for a full second in the quarter mile. The green car on the other side of the gas pumps is a 52 or 53 Mercury. I love the guy with the cap on pumping gas. I never in all my years saw one of those. I am not sure they used those down south. Great picture.

Olds64

Very cool!

Isn't that his uniform? Full-service of course.

I'm too young to remember full-service gas stations. I've only ever experienced full-service in Europe where it's a law.

Fun71

Seriously? I worked at one in the mid-80s. It was across the street from the only mall in town so we had a lot of business.

therobski

My 53 was in Milwaukee. There were no Marathon stations there. I pumped gas, cleaned windows, checked oil etc. at a Mobil station in Milwaukee on Howard and Howell avenue.

oldcutlass

Our family gas station - Yonkers, New York. Notice the hat...

Vintage Chief

I worked part-time (mostly) then full-time (for awhile) at a Shell Oil full service Automotive Service Station (3 garage bays/lifts & 4 pumps) 1969/1970. Everyone wore brown long legged pants, a yellow Shell shirt & brown Shell baseball cap. Uniforms cleaned via a uniform cleaning service contractor weekly.

redoldsman

Eric, I see the 40 Ford on the right side of the picture. Was that yours?

Supernice88

Who remembers buying used quarts of oil for those cars that burned allot or leaked? I think it was 50 cents a quart. It was reprocessed.

oldcutlass

considering I wasn’t born yet, no. That overhead led to a body shop area that was leased out. The car was probably a customers.

Koda

I think I've used full service once, where it's the law, in New Jersey, and, even with a rental car, I wanted the guy to leave my car alone. Combination of "don't touch my stuff" and remembering the horror stories my dad used to tell of truck stops on I 75 in the 70s where the full service guys would
sabotage your car to get you to buy parts you now "needed." I believe guns were pulled sometimes to keep those jerks away from engine compartments.

redoldsman

I worked at a Phillips 66 station off and on in my senior year of high school. We were really full service. I remember the owner teaching my buddy and me to wipe the headlights to look for a broken headlight and check the belts. There was a Gates Mystery Man who would come in with a worn belt and if you caught it yoiu would get a reward. He never came in while I worked there. I remember the re-refined oil for 25 cents a quart. We did not sell it and I never used any.