When I was a kid in the mid 1970's, the roads were somewhat busy during the day but after 9:00pm, the roads would be empty. On Christmas day the roads were dead all day. Now, there is traffic 24 hours per day and 7 days per week. I live in a small town now and the roads are busy even at 11:00pm and probably later.
@FuckSlowShit
6 жыл бұрын
Josephalfonso Amantia too many people
@rentslave
6 жыл бұрын
Obama brought in 30 million illegals.
@Mr.Everything
6 жыл бұрын
Same here. Most people I went to school with already have 2-3 kids before they were in their 20s so it’s only going to get worse.
@musicom67
6 жыл бұрын
The still are closed Sunday in Bergen County, NJ. Try going to Garden State Plaza on a Sunday...
@chriskoop4888
6 жыл бұрын
Same here, I grew up in Miami Florida in the 60's and 70's and I remember when the Palmetto Expressway had no traffic on Sundays. Now there is heavy traffic 24/7 and it is a parking lot during rush hour. Wish I was back in the 60's!
@vegansaxon3962
6 жыл бұрын
My dad was only 3 years old...I miss him more than I can say
@jonn.6325
2 жыл бұрын
say what?
@Lord_Kratos69
Жыл бұрын
My grandpa 4
@TheLostBijou
3 ай бұрын
Living without your parents is really lonely, isn't it?
@toreshammerecelt861
6 жыл бұрын
That gas station attendant didn’t look to pleased to be there.
@rexluminus9867
6 жыл бұрын
Kekmeister Biped. Yes, he worked there to long. Retirement is on the way. Drive to 🇨🇦Canada old man and 💆relax. Spend some $'s.
@lostsoul3154
6 жыл бұрын
Talk about a grump, geesh !!!
@snookysnax
6 жыл бұрын
mr. gas guy, check the oil, pump up the front tire, wash my windshield, and 5 cents worth of gas please.
@reesedaniel5835
6 жыл бұрын
I agree. He looked like people of today (with the sour, over worked expression).
@jeffmayo2439
6 жыл бұрын
that's what happens when u huff to much leaded fuel over 25 years. remember..these gas pumps don't have vapor recovery systems. The gas was noxious. The cars had blo by tubes.Then you have the kids dropping deuces in the toilets and never flush.used paper towels strewn everywhere.At the end of the day..he has to clean it up to keep his ESSO franchise open.Yup...he has a right to be grumpy !
I wish I could lip read. Wonder what the lady said at the end. Sadly none of these adults are alive. The kids I'm sure are. Wish I could come across a comment "THAT'S ME!" in one of these videos. Would be so cool.
@dhoosee
6 жыл бұрын
LJ Andrewes hahahaha!!!
@smokeynewton
6 жыл бұрын
Wish it was longer. What a great clip.
@ApartmentKing66
5 жыл бұрын
So do I.
@tomwarneke5349
3 жыл бұрын
@@ApartmentKing66 I remember the Sinclair stations ,not too many left east of the Mississippi River
@Ashfielder
5 жыл бұрын
The world’s come so far. Well, except with regards to public toilets.
@tientrinh943
5 жыл бұрын
How? What’s different
@eaglesmann024
5 жыл бұрын
Toby Wood there were a lot of ky jelly back then
@X1.7
5 жыл бұрын
Toby Wood & kids riding unrestrained , standing up in the backseat of a convertible 😂
@tonyc9460
5 жыл бұрын
@Blair Aquilia And that's a good thing
@tonyc9460
5 жыл бұрын
@Blair Aquilia You should feel bad for the women who weren't allowed to use the bathroom because they have a penis
@williamschlenger1518
6 жыл бұрын
Free air in tires,the kids standing.A bygone era never to be seen again😎
@oldtwinsna8347
6 жыл бұрын
For good reason - one become a projectile in any accident and usually ends up decapitated.
@richlaw1953
6 жыл бұрын
I remember those days like it was a wonderful dream, driving someplace with my parents in the front seat and me standing up in the back, behind my parents like these kids, gas station attendants in uniforms... movie theaters were like palaces, it was a wonderful time for a kid in the early 1950s!
@mr.butterworth
6 жыл бұрын
William schlenger - I know a gas station in town with free air, and a service garage connected to it.
@l337pwnage
6 жыл бұрын
+oldtwins ya, now you just get decapitated by the airbags, lol.
@an0therdimensi0n99
6 жыл бұрын
More than free air, at least there were nozzles still attached and not cut cleanly off by some jitbag drug addict recycling metal. Yea - I live in a major u.s. city. You can just forget about using a public air machine. 0% chance of finding a working one within 50 miles.
@ralphreyes2440
7 жыл бұрын
Dammnn No traffic at all so peaceful to drive back then no road rage or anything like that
@lincolnpaul1814
6 жыл бұрын
Ralph Reyes there was plenty of traffic but rarely road rage
@lincolnpaul1814
6 жыл бұрын
Ralph Reyes there was plenty of traffic and road rage has nothing to do with traffic. Traffic in Western Europe is much heavier than in America and without road rage
@ElCid48
6 жыл бұрын
Hey, Lincoln. When you talk about real road rage visit the videos of Russian drivers. This business of putting down America for whatever the reason is already passé. Stay in "Western Europe" if you like and enjoy the Muslim invasion. BTW, that name is too big for ya.
@frankbiz
6 жыл бұрын
We have road rage today because many people don’t know how to drive and are doing everything but paying attention and driving. I have been driving for 50 years and what I see gets worse every year. Eating, texting, drinking, all at the same time as they drive. Then when the light turns green and they don’t go, they give you the finger for giving a little tap of the horn.
@pedrolistacarey4880
6 жыл бұрын
Thomas H - In the end, it was clear that Germany and Japan were the big winners of WW2....
@GMCTIM
Жыл бұрын
Born in 70 unfortunatly I missed those days ! Hear my dads talk about those days, wish I was there ! 👍🏻
@GMCTIM
Жыл бұрын
But I do have a piece of those days ! I have a 46 Chevy business coupe ! 👍🏻
@DoubleGauss
6 жыл бұрын
I could watch clips like this all day instead of the **** that comes out of Hollywood.
@imdjc4
5 жыл бұрын
Well put.
@frankgarrett9500
5 жыл бұрын
I’m old white and scared. Why do things change!? Why can’t I say the N word in public oh Lord? Must be them demmycrats!
@tonyc9460
5 жыл бұрын
@@frankgarrett9500 based
@energeticyellow1637
5 жыл бұрын
@@frankgarrett9500 take your meds schizo.
@drServitis
4 жыл бұрын
@@frankgarrett9500 I'm just glad we've got President Trump on our side. He's a man's man, a Broke-back Mountain kind of a man's man.
@sumirunihon
5 жыл бұрын
it's incredible to me how they could get this kind of image quality in 1946
@JeffDeWitt
5 жыл бұрын
Movie film... look at something like the Wizard of Oz, it was from almost a decade earlier.
@johnnyfrisco5354
5 жыл бұрын
Real quality lenses back then...
@frankdiscussion2069
4 жыл бұрын
Ummm..35mm film through the best motion picture cameras of the time makes for beautiful images. Long before digital this was the standard.
@desertorganist
9 ай бұрын
Love that '41 Chevy convertible! My first car was a '41 Chevy Master Deluxe Town Sedan 2-door sedan. It had its quirks, but it was a good car.
@Watchmaker_Gereon-Schloesser
2 ай бұрын
Thanks for your detail info!
@scottmorrison466
5 жыл бұрын
They could never have imagined how lucky and free they were. And how envious we would be.
@danielmandoki5376
5 жыл бұрын
only if you're white tho
@HelloThere-bj9rw
5 жыл бұрын
Ok boomer
@gadpivs
4 жыл бұрын
You are aware that the man in the video likely served in World War II and was probably terrified for months that he'd get gunned down somewhere overseas, right?
@bobby2pistolz854
4 жыл бұрын
@@danielmandoki5376 Well in all honesty, Africa was just as garbage in 1946 as it is now. So yeah, your correct ;).
@crtl5911
4 жыл бұрын
@@bobby2pistolz854 he's talking about afroamericans in US don't play stupid you know what's he/she talking about
@l337pwnage
6 жыл бұрын
So *THAT'S* what freedom looks like. I've never seen it before.
@AuH2O
6 жыл бұрын
You have liberalism to thank for the disappearance of freedom! Never vote Democrat!
@robertloerwald3
6 жыл бұрын
Uh, you still have the freedom to drive down the road and go to a gas station. Do you really not know that?
@l337pwnage
6 жыл бұрын
+rob lol, ya, with your government mandated insurance and government mandated driver's license(not all states required licenses in the '40s), so, no, you don't, not without government approval.
@robertloerwald3
6 жыл бұрын
Do you really think this country would be better if people were driving around without licenses or insurance? Have you ever been hit by an uninsured motorist? It sucks. Being irresponsible isn't the same thing as freedom. If you hate having insurance, move to New Hampshire.
@l337pwnage
6 жыл бұрын
+rob what are you talking about? People do that NOW! As you just proved. And a lot of them aren't even citizens. Only certain people are, in fact, really required by law to do those things. The rest rarely see any significant punishment. And insurance companies are the reason the costs get jacked up, which works to their advantage because it forces more people to buy insurance. Costs don't affect them because they just pass it on to the customer. People are just too gullible to figure it out. You want to stop accidents? That's easy: jail time. It's amazing how motivating sitting in a cell is to some people. The others, well, they get a few chances and then that cell becomes their retirement home. If you think that's too much, then you don't see it as very important and you should just learn to suck it up and pay your own bills.
@t4texastomjohnnycat978
6 жыл бұрын
Strange. The driver actually looking at the road & NOT at stupid cell phone.
@lerg12
6 жыл бұрын
T4TEXASTOM JOHNNYCAT haven’t seen that since ‘07
@t4texastomjohnnycat978
6 жыл бұрын
DodgeGuy67 You are sure right! 👍😅
@lerg12
6 жыл бұрын
T4TEXASTOM JOHNNYCAT I feel old lmao and I’m only 22
@rexluminus9867
6 жыл бұрын
T4TEXASTOM JOHNNYCAT 😀wow! That's 👍👉right! No distracting driving= less trouble. Great vid and musick. Thank you.
@josephalfonsoamantia7028
6 жыл бұрын
You got that right. Two things I won't allow. One is to look at my cell phone while I am driving and the other is digital clocks. So many kids today are unable to read an analog clock. It kills me. In my house and on my wrist are analog clocks only. What a dumb society we created, smart phones and now dumb people. Sad...
@Mekel01
5 жыл бұрын
The "Esso" service station is now called Exxon Mobil here in the US for those wondering. :)
@DP-hy4vh
5 жыл бұрын
Esso is still in Canada.
@frankgarrett9500
5 жыл бұрын
Esso is apart Exxon and Mobil. Esso was apart of Standard oil of New Jersey and Mobil was Standard oil of New York. Two of the biggest parts of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard oil trust at one time. The trust was broken up in 1911.
@frankgarrett9500
5 жыл бұрын
Esso is actually the phonetic spelling of Standard oil. SO.
@pedrolistacarey4880
3 жыл бұрын
@@frankgarrett9500 - Thanks for the info..I always wondered what it meant !
@tipsss85
3 жыл бұрын
this serviceman was ugly...
@Aviation380
5 жыл бұрын
Looks like bathrooms haven't changed that much
@MrGoogelaar
5 жыл бұрын
Nothing wrong with the bathrooms per se...but those disgusting thing called homo sapiens...
@Aviation380
5 жыл бұрын
@Jeff Rasberry 1:39
@josephalfonsoamantia7028
4 жыл бұрын
@Jeff Rasberry Not according to this video. Look at it and then say they were clean. The toilet was left un-flushed with crap in it and the protector left on the toilet seat.
@KP-vg3zn
4 жыл бұрын
Atleast they didn't have used needles from junkies.
@manlius
6 жыл бұрын
I remember standing in a convertible, holding onto the windshield, flying down the road. Well, maybe it wasn't as fast as I thought. It was 1965 and I was 8.
@andypaterson1639
6 жыл бұрын
Your parents must have given you hell for stealing the car!
@Jack-vp6wc
4 жыл бұрын
ok boomer
@ussling
5 жыл бұрын
I wish my dad was still alive to see this video. I'm sure he would have lots of stories to tell of those days.
@BigRobChicagoPL
6 жыл бұрын
Wow it really was nice for Americans back then. In my country of Poland we just got done getting attacked by Germans and then the USSR swooped in to add insult to injury. Still, I miss the warm culture of people and real interactions that today's over saturation of technology prevents. Even in the 80's nobody in Polska had gaming systems or computers. We just had locally produced communist Fiat 126p cars that sold like hot cakes but communism meant waiting lists and ridiculous resale values. You were lucky to even get a Russian made RUBIN color TV set for your tiny soviet high-rise apartment, yet alone a telephone. My parents would "call" their friends by yelling at each other through open windows!
@kaizersoze
6 жыл бұрын
Poland First. America First. Leave the EU.
@andypaterson1639
6 жыл бұрын
Yep, the "good old days" 😉
@desertodavid
6 жыл бұрын
Andy Paterson Robb is talking about life under communism., Not life in general back in 1940s America which was better than today. Much Freer, much simpler and people were a lot more united simply As Americans respecting each other's rights than they are today.😉
@andypaterson1639
6 жыл бұрын
@@desertodavid Ha ha. I am European and remember communism and the cars he is talking about etc, but 1940s life in America was not better. It's a common mistake to make that things just happen to have been better a generation or two ago and that things have declined since the times of one's grandparents. You can check the standards of living and the availability of educational opportunities and travel opportunities and food cost and healthcare and human rights and life expectancy etc. There was still segregation in the south in a land that had a Constitution declaring all men to have been created equal, for example. If you feel unhappy about the present day, it's an error to decide things were better at some other time. The evidence doesn't support that view.
@BigRobChicagoPL
6 жыл бұрын
Ja I thought that one too. We are under heavy ridicule right now by the group
@jcc-ve8mo
5 жыл бұрын
America's finest decade . Downhill since
@Watchmaker_Gereon-Schloesser
2 ай бұрын
Thank you for putting this beauty (the 16mm film) online
@akibrahman7983
7 жыл бұрын
Wow this is 71 years ago
@scottmorrison466
5 жыл бұрын
Make that 73 years ago.
@HansDelbruck53
3 жыл бұрын
@@scottmorrison466 Make that 75 years ago. Tempus Fugit.
@Jaxo_R
2 жыл бұрын
76 years ago lol
@JohnDoe-ir2ft
5 жыл бұрын
I used to love sitting on the roof with my little legs hanging through the sunroof on dads VW beetle on the way to the public pool back in the 70s.
@DP-hy4vh
5 жыл бұрын
1:40 - The public restrooms in 1946 are the same as those in 2019; nasty.
@garcjr
6 жыл бұрын
1:30 - 1:50 some things never change.
@shiddy.
6 жыл бұрын
good to see this, what an amazing time to be alive - shart, thank you for putting this up
@darrellross1
6 жыл бұрын
Maroon convertible is a 1941 Chevrolet. Filthy restroom! Texaco at that time had registered restroom inspectors that visited Texaco stations to inspect their stations for cleanliness.
@lincolnpaul1814
6 жыл бұрын
David Rossco everything wasn’t so grand in 1946. Nobody said it was a 46 Chevy.
@t4texastomjohnnycat978
6 жыл бұрын
Lincoln Paul who peed in YOUR cheerios.
@t4texastomjohnnycat978
6 жыл бұрын
Travis Bickle You're exactly right, Travis. Most "filling stations", or "service stations" as they were called then, to the best of my memory, were clean and the attendants were clean-cut, courteous, AND very hard-working. I miss those days. There's a LOT of things I miss from the past, or as some people say, "the good old days".😂You have a great day!👍🇺🇸
@t4texastomjohnnycat978
6 жыл бұрын
Travis Bickle You're making me hungry, talking bout those special-built German-made sandwiches. lol I grew up in the country, and not to far from our place was a small cafe operated by an sweet, elderly couple. They made absolutely the biggest hamburger you ever saw, and when they "built" your chocolate malt, they would fill a glass with it, but the tin can they made the malt in was still bout 1/3rd full. So it was like getting TWO malts. lol. Yes, like yours, those are very fond memories. The music too, IMO, was, unlike today's so-called music, GREAT. This is probably a stupid question, but since you mention Milwaukee, were you a Packers fan?
@t4texastomjohnnycat978
6 жыл бұрын
Travis Bickle A Presidential citation for your father and his battalion.... that is awesome. God bless your dad for his bravery and service for our America. I'm sorry for your medical condition. I will pray for you. Your Packers, with Bart Starr & SO MANY other Packer greats, many times left me brokenhearted after beating my Cowboys time after time in the 1960s. IMO, the Lombardi-era Packers were the greatest team in NFL history. I would give anything to be able to see Lambeau Field. Travis, my friend, you take care of yourself.
@3strikesyoureout
6 жыл бұрын
We had an Esso Station in my hometown. I remember when the sign changed to Exxon in the early 70's.
@lavneh4670
5 жыл бұрын
In canada it’s still called Esso
@TheArcticSpartan
5 жыл бұрын
^I can attest to that
@wholeNwon
5 жыл бұрын
I was in a grocery store yesterday and the men's room was nicer than the BRs in my own house: beautiful tile, marble, fixtures, etc. and perfectly clean. Haven't seen the inside of one at a gas station in decades.
@justinanderson8758
6 жыл бұрын
When a time of motoring was pleasant and had was easy to find and off you went again. Back when pretty much every auto manufacturer had V8s on their lineups and were cheap even for their time!
@bighands69
6 жыл бұрын
In the mid 1960s a Buick which was at the level of a Mercedes could be had for about $4000. That in today's money would be about $13,000. Just think about that.
@Bartonovich52
5 жыл бұрын
My turbocharged four cylinder can beat any of those V8s.
@defyyourlogic487
5 жыл бұрын
@@bighands69 people would actually buy there cars outright. None of this 7 year finance shit.
@joebarber4030
2 жыл бұрын
1946 ! basically the ford flathead v-8
@newerafrican
6 жыл бұрын
Nice piece until the bathroom scenes!
@sharp3552
6 жыл бұрын
newerafrican...that’s one thing that hasn’t changed! Most gas station bathrooms you go into are nasty!
@newerafrican
6 жыл бұрын
True that. It's usually better to NOT wash your hands as they are probably cleaner than any surface in there!!
@dolandlydia
5 жыл бұрын
That is why I must rather go in the woods.
@andredupuis5461
5 жыл бұрын
@@Lalvon_Zelpharr Yeah, to clean up. So the really did want them.
@kellybaumann1450
5 жыл бұрын
Nowdays you could be driving in the middle of the Mohave dessert and look in your rearview mirror at 2 am and someone would be tailgating you.
@RGE_Music
5 жыл бұрын
I thought i was crazy. More cars and more people. Maxing out our roads
@JohnDaker_singer
6 жыл бұрын
When my father was born in 1942 in Florida, there were only 1.9 million people. The roads were not busy and life moved at a slower pace. Today Florida has 21 million people, more than 10 times the population.
@HunterShows
6 жыл бұрын
Gotta put those Cubans and Puerto Ricans somewhere.
@56cadd
2 жыл бұрын
Deport them all.
@boisedynaa
8 жыл бұрын
Empty roads everywhere
@FuckSlowShit
6 жыл бұрын
Matt Drake less people at the time youngster
@oceanhome2023
6 жыл бұрын
Just think how beneficial it would be to go back to at least 180 million people
@reesedaniel5835
6 жыл бұрын
You go first ; )
@P7777-u7r
6 жыл бұрын
@@reesedaniel5835 I think we could reduce the population without killing anyone by encouraging people to have less kids Infinite population growth on a planet with finite space resources and importantly food isnt a great idea and i think bringing the population to a stable rate is something we need to do
@shortyorc121
6 жыл бұрын
@@P7777-u7r dude what the hell is this. The only people that are having less kids are white people. Every other ethic group are popping out baby's left and right and get government backing. Its so bad that whites will be a minority by 2045. How about we stop immigration completely and see how that turns out. Also kick out the 30mil-50mil illegals.
@iahelcathartesaura3887
6 жыл бұрын
My small town was behind the times in the 1960s & 70s, so it still looked & seemed like this. People looked this way too. Just with a few newer cars around. I miss the Texaco man & tidy people in uniform who smelled like sweat, natural fresh tobacco, leather, soil, work & oil. People weren't sanitized (though that old bathroom needed to be lol) & we all smelled & lived as our individual selves more! This is amazing. We enjoy this & may not even stop to think how difficult it was to even make this footage back then? Is this colorized? It's wonderful!
@kingkrimson8771
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, nothing like some BO and cigarette stench to make you long for the good old days LOL
@randrrr2193
6 жыл бұрын
Love it! I use to stand in the back seat. Gas was 17.9c per gallon.
@kingkrimson8771
3 жыл бұрын
....and a good salary was $8k/yr. Everything's relative.
@danieljames2015
5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant !. Just like going back in time, could watch this for hours. Those kids enjoying standing in the back would definitely attract a pull over by the Police now.
@ewiem4351
6 жыл бұрын
I still remember riding in the back seat of my dad's 1953 Plymouth. I couldn't have been more than 3 or 4 because I was small enough to climb onto the package shelf and take a nap. I don't think cars have package shelves any more.
@samdorsey4590
5 жыл бұрын
WOW me too Ewue M!!!
@dalegribble60
6 жыл бұрын
THe old gas pump attendant must have been in charge of bathroom detail....
@snoopu2601
6 жыл бұрын
This video is great gives people a look it really hasn't change much
@markkoetsier6475
5 жыл бұрын
1:29 For a moment I thought he was gonna drive into the fence, the mad lad.
@williammetcalf7239
24 күн бұрын
Back in the day, at a gas station, they would check the air in your tires, check your oil level and wash the windshield. They obviously made enough to be able to pay the guys to do it. Now your so happy if they even have a squeegee in some water. For get about compressed air, the compressor is usually out of service, and you better know how to check the oil level. That burgundy convertible is awesome.
@jamesdubose5635
6 жыл бұрын
There had to be a Coke machine at that gas station somewhere. I would have rather seen it instead of the disgusting bathroom. Notice no graffiti?
@DKingd88
5 жыл бұрын
None in the new US suburbia where you were a social climbing phony aristocrat. Noblesse oblige. It definitely was all over in the inner cities...
@pacz8114
5 жыл бұрын
@@DKingd88 Sounds like you're quite the authority here! I am humbled by your wisdom -- as exhibited by your detection of social climbing phony aristocrats and the confirmation of graffiti proliferating the US inner cities, circa 1946. Please offer more detail, your highness -- as the opportunity to learn from a sage is surely welcomed.
@DKingd88
5 жыл бұрын
@@pacz8114 Are you not familiar with "Keeping up with the Joneses?" The postwar period and the rise of the middle class and suburbia led to a consumerist arms race among neighbors, which the WW2 generation was wary of, having lived through the depression. It ultimately bankrupted a bountifully prosperous nation....
@pacz8114
5 жыл бұрын
@@DKingd88 How are you measuring the prosperity? In what way is this prosperity bankrupted?
@leviticus2001
5 жыл бұрын
Saw a couple of pictures somewhere... probably doctored.
@Todd-o8n
21 күн бұрын
I was a gas station jockey in the 70s for an Exxon station, still bearing the Happy Motoring signages, all sorts of old stuff, and MAPS! I didn't look as mean though. 😁😁
@harryhoudini3656
6 жыл бұрын
Oh how I miss those days, and I wasn’t even born yet.
@pedrolistacarey4880
3 жыл бұрын
You weren't born as Harry yet, but you were probably living in '46 during your previous life as, say, John Smith ! That's why you miss those days.
@lennyanders1639
5 жыл бұрын
Maybe in 80 years people will look back at videos of 2019 and think, wow they actually had trees back then.
@RoadCone411
5 жыл бұрын
Ok there Lenny Lorax!
@ahmadlocs458
5 жыл бұрын
Damn those cars were nice back then
@breAnnasmama
5 жыл бұрын
Dang ... who knew the 40’s were banging with that music ? No wonder my grandad ( who was born in 32) was such a good jazz musician - primarily pianist .. although he could play guitar and any percussion instrument like nobody’s business , too. Wow .. funny how we don’t think to connect dots or even ask questions to our elders , when we reek it could’ve stood to learn and benefit from so much they’ve had to say of their time before gracing our lives & making them better by being there ... suddenly I’m missing my grandparents in ways i dont even know how to put in words ! I loved them dearly when they were in this world but I just really Miss them after this ... and my parents don’t have much longer to really connect and ask things about their own time either. Better get on it ! They’re prob. Gunna look at me like I’m crazy... interruption the games on their phones and what not 😂meanwhile me:I wanna know everything about your past , dang it ! Them :🙄😳...
@B1970T
6 жыл бұрын
I could have sworn he gave that attendant a buck for about 5gals of gas. My, have times changed. Lol!
@TheAzmountaineer
6 жыл бұрын
20 cents a gallon, that would probably have been about right back then. I don't believe the last section with the dirty restrooms was part of the original film. Someone threw that in to be funny.
@B1970T
6 жыл бұрын
Gappie Al Kebabi what i wrote wasn’t a compliant, just a comment on the times we now live in. Obviously you don’t understand American tongue-in-cheek humor. Relax
@oldtwinsna8347
6 жыл бұрын
With inflation, 20 cents a gallon comes out to just about $2.85 today. Guess what, you can actually get gas at that price this very day as long as you stay the hell away from Cali-Shit-fornia
@mrkeno1000
6 жыл бұрын
the price on the pump was 30
@johnhoward3042
6 жыл бұрын
r april No it was 20 cents a gallon or so then.
@calbob750
2 жыл бұрын
Noticed that the pricing on the gas pump only goes to 99.9 cents per gallon. It wasn’t until the first oil shortage in the 70’s that pumps had to register a dollar or more. It was a real transition when gas went to $1.09. Per gallon thanks to the first contrived shortage. When pump prices rose to over a dollar all those tankers floating in the Gulf of Mexico with Saudi oil suddenly headed for the refineries.
@brianmitchell5906
5 жыл бұрын
My guess this is a clip for Esso dealers on how not to run their stations. The beginning shows what a dealer should do and the end shows what definitely not to do. Be friendly and have clean restrooms is what I take from this; the guy at the end definitely doesn't live by that model.
@devroshart
5 жыл бұрын
Definitely was supposed to be the competitor’s restroom.
@mikedrown2721
2 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1946 wasn't it nice back then? Now we have the people who are on the Jerry Springer show 😭
@59cadcoupe
6 жыл бұрын
Very enjoyable to watch except for the rest room,,,
@billg7205
4 жыл бұрын
0:16 kids standing up in the back seat of a convertible. I remember when the back of station wagons were a playground going down the road.
@paulbroderick8438
6 жыл бұрын
Yep, 'three on tree' gear change!
@42lookc
Жыл бұрын
Good grief, the restrooms could be dirty even in those days. I guess there's always been people with little respect.
@fairfaxcat1312
5 жыл бұрын
The automakers’ biggest concern in 1946 was certainly safety.
@patriciakehaya6711
5 жыл бұрын
I remember those days at gas stations service with a smile. Super service my father worked at one part time. Those days are long gone sure miss those days
@GFSLombardo
5 жыл бұрын
NEW JERSEY still has gas station attendants to fill your tank. Its 2019-smiling is definitely optional. Just sayin...
@MrGlendale111
6 жыл бұрын
I doubt many had cars in 46. No wonder the roads are empty. The War only ended Aug 45.
@lincolnpaul1814
6 жыл бұрын
Toyota1949 your head is empty
@waynewinston1858
6 жыл бұрын
Toyota1949 the "Eisenhower highway system" (Interstates) were designed from pre WWII autobahn. Volkswagen (people's car) was also another program to create jobs. it was modeled after Ford's model T, production line wise. both were to make cheap cars poor people could afford.
@FuckSlowShit
6 жыл бұрын
Lincoln Paul be a baby boy some place else youngster
@bighands69
6 жыл бұрын
+Wayne Winston The autobahn pre ww2 was just an idea. There was a few roads that were built across germany but it was not a complete networked system like today. Pre ww2 America had similar ideas but again not widespread.
@alternateimpact81
2 жыл бұрын
Gas station attendant looked like he said "ASSHOLE!" 1:04 Just try and unsee it now! Lol
@contentwithchaz8916
5 жыл бұрын
Damn what a time to be alive
@cacatr4495
6 жыл бұрын
Throughout all our family vacations through the 1960's and 70's, I never went into ANY restroom that looked like that, at roadside rest stops, at old gas stations, at fastfood places, nowhere, retail stores, restaurants, zoos, city parks, amusement parks, national parks and national forest latrines. Throughout the entire west from San Diego, through California, inland and coastal, all the way up to Vancouver, British Colombia, from the Dakotas down through Texas and all the states between, from Banff to Calgary to Denver to Arizona and New Mexico, I never saw that, and there were lots of driving vacations for months every year. Driving into Arkansas and up through all of the states of the Great Plains of the Midwest, I never saw that. People had PERSONAL DIGNITY to leave things in order, and public restrooms had hourly cleaning schedules that hung on the inside of the door, so the public could see when it was cleaned and by what employee. People had whatever measure of self-discipline and understanding not to trash restrooms like that: they were nothing like what we see today. Don't believe that part of this video. The first messy public restroom I ever saw was in the 1980's at a nightclub. All the stores and restaurants I worked in, their restrooms never looked like that either.
@samdorsey4590
5 жыл бұрын
Your right CA Catr! Growing up in the 60's and 70's my Dad had a Sunoco gas station on a main 2 lane route & of course I got to clean the bathroom's!!! Never ever looked like that in the video!! And later on my brother & I had a Texaco gas station & YES there was schedule as to who was & did clean the bathroom!!! I miss those days & my Dad! People would come in down on their luck with a carload of runny nose little kids & my Dad would help them out with gas or even tires!!! By gone era for sure!!
@RalphHuntington
6 жыл бұрын
Catch the old attendant saying (or maybe snarling) "Check the oil?" Who remembers that? I do.
@Offmedication
5 жыл бұрын
That gas pump guy looked mean..."What the Hell do you want!" LOL
@frankdiscussion2069
4 жыл бұрын
Nothing has changed! hahaha!
@tedpeterson1156
4 жыл бұрын
He's right outta central casting, sho nuff.
@ebayerr
6 жыл бұрын
My mom would've been about the same age as the boy riding in the car.
@abrarw99
4 жыл бұрын
It all looks so peaceful. They didn't have to face traffic jams, constant car honking and what not. You could actually appreciate the beauty of open roads on sunny days unlike.
@Saturdayz_In_The_Fall
5 жыл бұрын
The roads looked smooth as hell... its a shame America cant afford to maintain them today.
@fordsrule35
5 жыл бұрын
Of course we can't. They are to busy giving away Billions of American Tax payer dollars in "Foreign Aid".
@hendrikdependrik1891
5 жыл бұрын
Wide roads aren't cheap you know.
@aziez2011
4 жыл бұрын
Dante E the reason why America cant maintain roads is clear. Have you looked into how much money US gives to Israel, Egypt and Jordan every year based on the agreement from 1975? Almost 6 billion a year. Have you ever seen one Republican or Democrat say wtf! Nope. But the average American is brainwashed but only if they even read about stuff like this
@markosturm2128
6 жыл бұрын
I miss those days
@audieconrad8995
6 жыл бұрын
Must've felt good to motor around and buy gasoline when you wanted without ration cards.
@yatyas
5 жыл бұрын
bring these days back!
@auletjohnast03638
5 жыл бұрын
THE SERVICE ATTENDANT LOOKED MAD😠 HE WAS SAYING: "GET THE HELL OUT AND DON'T COME BACK!"
@tedpeterson1156
4 жыл бұрын
Handed him a buck ... "keep the change, Mac". That softened him considerabky.
@npxmnpxm
4 жыл бұрын
Gee, just when I was ready to write something like, "public restrooms were so much cleaner back then..."
@claymack1109
5 жыл бұрын
I would love to go back in time and grow up in that time period it seems simple compared to today and all the bullshit we have now
@wholeNwon
5 жыл бұрын
You'd be sort of safe going back since you've probably had your polio, MMR, DPT, influenza, pneumonia, etc. vaccines and are probably not Black.
@busykitty893
5 жыл бұрын
why does this give me nostalgic vibes
@pedrolistacarey4880
3 жыл бұрын
Because it reminds you of your previous life in '46 !
@whereisthehook
6 жыл бұрын
They were on their way to the cemetery. No seat belts, no air bags, no anti-lock brakes. It's a wonder I was even born.
@snookysnax
6 жыл бұрын
Dan, they Did have back seats ya know .
@HunterShows
6 жыл бұрын
We're all on our way to a cemetery.
@gilval808
6 жыл бұрын
Look at that just a plain simple family driving on a sunny day .
@lincolnpaul1814
6 жыл бұрын
Frank Biz, Road rage has nothing to do with the driving ability, it has everything to do with the children of America rarely if ever being said no to. These children grow up and think the world should cater to their every whim. It’s rage everywhere in public places,restaurants, airports, grocery stores, office buildings. You don’t see this rage in other countries, certainly not in Western Europe.
@John.Mini-Clubman
6 жыл бұрын
As you may know, to obtain ones drivers' licence (license) in western-Europe isn't too easy. Ie; After passing the 'knowledge ('written') test, to get your 'full license' to drive, you take the driving on the road test w/a professional instuctor.. If and when you pass your test in an 'automatic' trans' car, this limits you, as you're not legal to drive a vehicle w/a manual 'box. But take and pass the driving test in a manual-then you're legal to drive either.. Have to admit, when driving there, this 'training' manifested itself in better communication between fellow motorists and an overall greater respect of other drivers,' too.
@richlaw1953
6 жыл бұрын
Lincoln Paul - you are so right! When I was growing up if I misbehaved I got a good whack on the bottom and that was enough to set me straight. None of this “time out” nonsense or trying to “reason” with a misbehaving child. I was taught respect for my elders, respect for my country, respect for my teachers, etc. I never threw a tantrum because I knew my parents would smack the hell out of me. And deservedly so. When my mother or father said “no,” that was it. No whining, no crying, no pouting, no pleading; No means no. I turned out fine, and my three adult children are happy, successful and well-adjusted members of society. Children need love but they also need boundaries, limits. Once in a while when a child tests your limits he or she may need a little “reminder” of where those limits are.
@andyburk4825
6 жыл бұрын
I've watched my nieces and nephews rampaging around restaurants and their parents just sit oblivious to the mayhem.
@desertodavid
6 жыл бұрын
Andy Burk I'm amazed at people today young parents in their twenties and thirties that don't even know they're being manipulated by their kids. It's very sad to watch because these kids are going to grow up without any discipline or respect for others. This is the main problem we have in society today lack of respect for others.
@samdorsey4590
5 жыл бұрын
@@richlaw1953 I agree Richard!! Same here growning up!!!! Very well said!!!! Yeah, time out? My ass knew when to straighten up!!! Literally
@JustAnotherNamelessGuy
2 жыл бұрын
Good to see public bathroom etiquette hasn’t changed much
@yung4evr
6 жыл бұрын
I do recall the public restrooms back then were not very clean.
@Anth230
6 жыл бұрын
Damn you are old....
@yung4evr
6 жыл бұрын
Yep. If you're lucky, you will be too one day.
@kingkrimson8771
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I believe you mentioned that in "The Great Shatsby", your finest novel
@281cobra
6 жыл бұрын
Boogie Woogie was the bomb in 1946. Half a tank of gas for a buck. Kids free to fly though the air during an accident....Ahhh, the good old days.
@Anth230
6 жыл бұрын
Damn you are old and know how to use youtube....amazing...
@John.Mini-Clubman
6 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a bargain; "Kids fly free"
@brucemarsico6
6 жыл бұрын
Hmmm. That filling station attendant doesn't seem so eager to please. I guess he's already discovered that the new prosperity wasn't to include him....
@tc556guy
6 жыл бұрын
Says who? Working beats welfare, regardless of the decade. If you work smart, the odds are in your favor that you get ahead, then or now.
@brucemarsico6
6 жыл бұрын
You must be the ghost of Horatio Alger...…Never mentioned anything about welfare.Work, work work...…..
@tc556guy
6 жыл бұрын
If you work, you make your own prosperity. Stop being jealous of what others have worked for.
@brucemarsico6
6 жыл бұрын
Gappie, you have a valid point. Perhaps the best solution is to study something that will get you a fairly good position in the endless struggle for money.Also, study something that you really love......that might benefit the situation I wrote about above.Example......Get a business administration degree....plus, study a foreign language. Learn it to fluency. Go to that country....maybeteach English (if you're from the US.) Who know what opportunitiesmay arise.Or...….try to get a wealthy family to adopt you and will afford you allof the crazy studies your heart desires.
@tc556guy
6 жыл бұрын
Gappie, don't be dumb in your career selection. Don't spend 200K for a major in underwater basket weaving. If you major in a liberal arts field, understand that you're up against a lot of competition, so you'd better be at the top of your game. Don't throw all of your money away at a private 4 year school. Go to a local community college for an Associates, then transfer to a public or private 4 year. Join the military and let them train you, or at least use their educational benefits to pay for your schooling. Or, don't go to college at all. The Trades need people for all of the Boomers who will be retiring in the next few years. Society still needs electricians, roofers, plumbers, etc. Those guys make a decent wage without any college debt. Be smart about it and you wont be as financially hard up as you think. Bottom line, if you sit on your ass and complain about how hard life is, you'll still be sitting there whining about how unfair it is that people who worked hard got further in life than you did.
@mdogg1604
6 жыл бұрын
Awesome old Chevy, and cute little projectiles, oops, I mean kids.
@markducharme9518
6 жыл бұрын
Dang, you stole my thunder!
@walkergillette3918
6 жыл бұрын
THOUGHT BACK THEN WAS SERVICE WITH A SMILE, THAT GASOLINE ATTENDANT LOOKED LIKE HE WANTED TO KILL
@samdorsey4590
5 жыл бұрын
Your right Fred!! When my Dad had a Sunoco gas station back in the 60's and 70's he'd tell me & my brother, you smile & say yes sir, yes mam!! And even if they only want 50 cents worth of gas you " CLEAN THEIR WINDSHIELD "!!! And if I didn't there would be hell to pay!!!
@maxfr142
4 жыл бұрын
Well the war did just end
@mackey-5438
6 жыл бұрын
Must've been an extended commercial for Esso back in the day.
@Jamesmax22
5 жыл бұрын
Back in the day when kids were allowed to become missiles upon impact.
@michaeldicarlo5540
3 жыл бұрын
The film is amazing quality someone must of had an amazing camera then, it's amazing how everyone had a job everyone worked it was all about service and family fun I would to go back in time
@reving19
4 жыл бұрын
NO PURPLE HAIR,NO FAT PEOPLE,NO TAOOES,NO MIXING THE RACES JUST BEAUTIFUL AMERICANS ENJOYING LIFE
@johntapp1650
4 жыл бұрын
Guess I better stay away until I can fit into the standard clothes.
@MisterMikeTexas
5 жыл бұрын
Surely the dirty public restroom was an exception. Major gas station chains were noted for taking pride in their appearance and clean restrooms. I was born in 1963, and into the 70's I remember major gas stations having the cleanest restrooms. That changed as the mid 70's came but in the early part many restrooms were still spotless.
@snugbug5067
5 жыл бұрын
That's showing the highlights of a road trip. Unsafe children and UNsanitary restrooms ! 😬
@ericgrosvenor67
6 жыл бұрын
Back when I was a kid we had horses and buggies. I died long before there were cars. But we had trail rage
@markducharme9518
6 жыл бұрын
Ah brother eric, thank you for the guffaw, that was very good
@ericgrosvenor67
6 жыл бұрын
MARK DUCHARME thanks. I sometimes late at night I goofy but I really did enjoy the video. The days with good morals and values
@RobertoDallossi
5 жыл бұрын
I want a time machine, PLEEEEEEEEASE!!!
@viniciusvalois2634
4 жыл бұрын
Somos dois... I want one too.
@historylover1776
3 жыл бұрын
This feels like an memory that’s off..
@richpaul6853
6 жыл бұрын
Having grown up in the 1940s, looking back, I realized people enjoyed a lot more freedom. The government hadn’t become this overprotective nanny state imposing law after law. There was far more personal responsibility. Yes, it was a simpler time, but a much happier time, at least for me and many I know who are my age or older.
@bighands69
6 жыл бұрын
To give you an idea of how different times were. FDR tried to expand the size of the supreme court and his own party actually blocked him. Could you imagine that today. No most politicians are for big government all the way to 90.
@kingkrimson8771
3 жыл бұрын
It's easier to be happy when your joints don't ache, you can still get it up, and you can fart without shitting yourself
@nuancolar7304
4 жыл бұрын
Some of the gas station attendants were wearing ties. What an amazing time that was.
@pedrolistacarey4880
3 жыл бұрын
Bow ties, that is.
@drServitis
6 жыл бұрын
I WON'T BE GOING TO ESSO, THAT'S FOR SURE. DIRTY BATHROOMS.
@johntapp1650
4 жыл бұрын
I loved looking at the 1940 Ford with the pointed hood.
@donathancampbell3601
6 жыл бұрын
1:43 a blunt and a joint, damn 46’ was lit
@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER
6 жыл бұрын
That was tobacco, not pot.
@josephalfonsoamantia7028
6 жыл бұрын
During that time, a lot of people rolled their own cigarettes.
@FuckSlowShit
6 жыл бұрын
Donathan Campbell back then we never heard of Lit . Isn’t a term
@samdorsey4590
5 жыл бұрын
@@josephalfonsoamantia7028 Exactly!
@jedite7503
6 жыл бұрын
An era of innocence...
@chieftp
6 жыл бұрын
now we have to pump our own gas and bag our own groceries. but the owners of the stores live in cavernous mansions out in the forest.
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