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Same here. Probably what I'll be buried in if I'm not cremated.
I think I’ll choose to be tree food. In my blue jeans and All-Stars. Hope the tree doesn’t mind.
Same here. Probably what I'll be buried in if I'm not cremated.
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Spotted at the flea mall but I figured you good folks here could appreciate it. An old Esso travel cooler/thermos jug. Looked like it might hold half a gallon.
In 1971 after I left university having decided I had read enough books it was time to learn something I had no clue...(a lengthy list) so I decided to become an auto mechanic. I knocked on gas station doors until an owner, needing a pump jockey back in the day of full service gas attendants, hired me under the terms....I would pump gas but when slow I could work with him in the shop and he would teach me auto mechanics. One of my jobs was keeping the washrooms clean ....letThe "Registered Rest Room" program was a real thing. The company had a fleet of cars called the "White Patrol" who'd drive around making random stops at Texaco stations specifically to check the condition of the restrooms, and if you were out of compliance they'd pull your sign. Considering how much attention they gave the program in their advertising, this was a pretty big deal.
The requirements were not all that onerous -- the restrooms had to be cleaned at least twice daily, they had to be adequately supplied with soap and paper goods, and they had to be equipped with functional locks and a coat hook. Given the complete slovenliness of tourists passing thru, the twice-daily cleanings were dreaded.
Most other oil companies had similar restroom-enforcement programs that lingered on into the '70s before people stopped caring. Our actual Registered Rest Rooms certificate hangs on my bathroom door at home to this day.
Slippery little devil, wasn't he?That Happy The Oil Drop sure gets around.
Ozark, Missouri. I would like to see more trucks like these restored.
Ozark, Missouri. I would like to see more trucks like these restored.
Perhaps this observation might more fittingly belong in the “You Know You Are Getting Old When” thread, but I’m thinking that I’m among many here who remember when these were just used trucks. Not “classic,” not “vintage,” not “collectible,” just trucks you could buy on the cheap.