Growing up in SoCal, I remember $0.26-29 at a lot of stations in the mid-late '60s, which slowly increased to the low-mid 30s until the first oil embargo (1973.) Then it jumped by 10-15 cents.
Lots of stations were in the high $0.40s by 1975. Then, a steady climb to...
In 1979 (second embargo) it jumped to around 75-80 cents.
Brett: Where was the station you worked at?