I was in a Denney's restaurant today in Lake Forest and they had a photo on the wall of the intersection of El Toro Road and Rockfield Drive taken in 1977. Something caught my eye and I snapped a cellphone shot of it:
It's a little hard to see, but the Mobil station at right was selling gas for $.57 cents a gallon self serve. It was $.61 cents for full serve.
We'll never see those prices again.
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That same year, 1977, I remember regular unleaded gasoline selling for $.49 and 9/10 per gallon in Oceanside.
Orange County has always had higher gasoline prices. A function of higher income, eh?
58 cents a gallon was no bargain back then, but it sure is now! (grin)
How about buying a 3 bdrm, 1 bath, living room, dining room and basement house for $17,000?
(in 1963)
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