Current gas prices in western suburbs of Chicago

[trotrof1]

I can still remember most of the cigarette TV commercials. Smokes were .55 cents a pack and the only thing you needed to purchase was to be tall enough to operate a vending machine. I think the same strategy on gasoline is at work.

[deathsled]

Speaking of high prices, we were at the grocery this week-end and I just happened to see the sign over the customer service counter...Marlboros $7.95/pack!  Wow! 40 cents a smoke...So glad I gave 'em up 40 years ago.

Never smoked, and cannot imagine it.

https://balancingeverything.com/cigarette-prices-by-state/

Nor I.  Wasn't even tempted.  I do remember pop-eye candy cigarettes they used to sell in Toronto.  They were tasty but it never got me in to the actual habit.  Don't know if they were a thing here in the US back in the 60s 70s.

[FL SAAC]

Ladies and Gentlemen I have found nirvana, this is a place where all the gasoline junkies can move to and purchase 95 octane at a totally insane price. 

I present you VENEZUELA !

[mark p]

I feel your pain...
$4.269 for a gallon of Shell premium here on Sunday 11/7. Ouch

[69mach351w]

I can still remember most of the cigarette TV commercials. Smokes were .55 cents a pack and the only thing you needed to purchase was to be tall enough to operate a vending machine. I think the same strategy on gasoline is at work.

I can remember the Flintstone's had cigarette commercials as did the Munster's.

Was watching an episode of Emergency and Dixie (Julie London) was smoking on her break. Seems like the year was 1974?

Also watching Quincy and see people smoking in the hospital as well.

Crazy, Crazy how times have Surely changed

[69mach351w]

Speaking of high prices, we were at the grocery this week-end and I just happened to see the sign over the customer service counter...Marlboros $7.95/pack!  Wow! 40 cents a smoke...So glad I gave 'em up 40 years ago.

Never smoked, and cannot imagine it.

https://balancingeverything.com/cigarette-prices-by-state/

Nor I.  Wasn't even tempted.  I do remember pop-eye candy cigarettes they used to sell in Toronto.  They were tasty but it never got me in to the actual habit.  Don't know if they were a thing here in the US back in the 60s 70s.

Candy cig's are still sold in some areas here in NC. There's a small Mom & Pop convenient store on the other side of town that sells them. Actually he owns two convenient stores and sell them at both. I know, because my granddaughter loves them    But I have never smoked either.

[557]

Used to have chewing gum cigs in Cali.Paper wrapper around the gum with powdered  sugar inside.You could blow through em and the sugar would billow like smoke.Gotta start em young...

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The types of children's cigarettes we had in L.A. in the mid-to-late '60s included chewing gum cigs, chewing gum cigars, and white sugar cigs with the "lit" tips created with healthy red food coloring. 

Those sugar cigs were sold in 10-packs (IIRC) with labels and packaging that looked kinda, sorta, close to Marlboros and Kools.

Actual cigarette prices, in the grocery stores at the time, was 25 cents a pack, and 35 cents in most vending machines.

That last time I smoked was in 8th grade, under the Sepulveda Blvd bridge with my two best buddies and three neighborhood girls. That was actually a pretty good day.

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Quit yur bitchin, the rest of you.  I shot this pix the other day, in West L.A., adjacent to Beverly Hills. 

[mark p]

^^^^ OUCH 

[67 GT350]

I have a hard time feeling sorry for two States:
NY
CA
ok here is more
OR
WA
AZ (because of something else)
GA (because of something else)
The NY of the Southern States, NC (because of something else)
PA (because of Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, SCRANTON...for another reason)
and more...(etc)
This is what they WILLINGLY VOTED FOR.

[FL SAAC]

Now that is funeeeeeee, I know a few that live there

You are correct Sir!

I have a hard time feeling sorry for two States:
NY
CA
ok here is more
OR
WA
AZ (because of something else)
GA (because of something else)
The NY of the Southern States, NC (because of something else)
PA (because of Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, SCRANTON...for another reason)
and more...(etc)
This is what they WILLINGLY VOTED FOR.

[gt350hr]

Back to gas prices after this word from our sponsor: 

The types of children's cigarettes we had in L.A. in the mid-to-late '60s included chewing gum cigs, chewing gum cigars, and white sugar cigs with the "lit" tips created with healthy red food coloring. 

Those sugar cigs were sold in 10-packs (IIRC) with labels and packaging that looked kinda, sorta, close to Marlboros and Kools.

Actual cigarette prices, in the grocery stores at the time, was 25 cents a pack, and 35 cents in most vending machines.

That last time I smoked was in 8th grade, under the Sepulveda Blvd bridge with my two best buddies and three neighborhood girls. That was actually a pretty good day.

        So are we talking second base?    LOL

[deathsled]

Quit yur bitchin, the rest of you.  I shot this pix the other day, in West L.A., adjacent to Beverly Hills.

Can't be.  That must be CGI.  Wow!

[Side-Oilers]

Back to gas prices after this word from our sponsor: 

The types of children's cigarettes we had in L.A. in the mid-to-late '60s included chewing gum cigs, chewing gum cigars, and white sugar cigs with the "lit" tips created with healthy red food coloring. 

Those sugar cigs were sold in 10-packs (IIRC) with labels and packaging that looked kinda, sorta, close to Marlboros and Kools.

Actual cigarette prices, in the grocery stores at the time, was 25 cents a pack, and 35 cents in most vending machines.

That last time I smoked was in 8th grade, under the Sepulveda Blvd bridge with my two best buddies and three neighborhood girls. That was actually a pretty good day.

        So are we talking second base?    LOL

My buddies and I actually called it "second gear" back then.  Figured our parents wouldn't know what we were talking about.  But, I kinda think my dad did.