Last night when I went to the strip I went by an old gas station that has been down for a few years but still had the prices up. Just though I would share some history on the good old days.

 

Looks like people just messing around. But golly that would be nice to see again wouldn't it? $1.11 a gallon would be sweeeet!!! Hell, $2.22 a gallon I could live with for sure.

 

Damn man quit teasing us. I would do backflips for fuel to be down to $2.22 again!!!!!!

 

Looks like we'll never see that again.

 

Only in Mexico now lol

 

For some strange reason, that picture made a feeling flood over me and I thought of this song by Fred Eaglesmith "White Rose":

Well the whole town came out to watch the day they paved the parking lot

Somebody hung a ribbon up and then they cut it down.

And that big white rose up on that sign was the innocence in all our lives
And you could see its neon light from half a mile out.
Gas was fifty cents a gallon and they'd put it in for you,
And they'd check your oil and pump your tires and wash your windows, too.
And we'd shine those cars as bright as bright and we'd go park underneath those lights
Stare out at the prairie sky, there was nothing else to do.

But now there's plywood for glass, where the windows all got smashed

And there's just a chunk of concrete where those old pumps used to stand.

There's a couple of cars half out of the ground, an oil sign still spins 'round and 'round

But I guess a White Rose filling station is just a memory now.
And the girls would spend a couple of bucks just to meet the boys working at the pumps
And they'd grow up and fall in love and they'd all move away.
Strangers used to stop and ask how far they'd driven off the map,
And then they built that overpass and now they stay out on the highway.

And the neon sign was the heart and soul of this old one-horse town

And it's like it lost its will to live the day they shut it down.