Anyone here remember this...................................... ??

[Gino]

I think it was 1940......... nice kerning, huh ??

 

[Billct2]

Nice layout

 

[Boudica]

Now THAT'S a patch!

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Is that you Gino?

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

How is the 6 for 99 cents a deal?

 

[Boudica]

How is the 6 for 99 cents a deal?

It's a deal for those who can't do math, and they just believe it.

 

[Boudica]

or, maybe it's listed like that, because back then cars only held 6 gallons? Gino, is that it?

 

[netsol]

Gino, I remember $.29
Were you paying $.16.6 when you first bought the Maxwell?

 

[Johnny Best]

That 1/2 is pretty small,I guess back then you did not use .5 yet since most people only went to 8th grade, how do you break a penny down if you only wanted a gal.
16.5x6=99cents, they are doing the math for you, pocket calculators were not made yet.

 

[Gino]

Ya hadda buy in even increments or get short-changed. They had pocket pool. Oops......... that's for that other thread.

 

[Johnny Best]

When I was 18years old in 1966, gas was 30 cents a gallon. $3 to fill up my VW bug.

 

[Johnny Best]

Gino plays pocket pool away games.

 

[Johnny Best]

That guy at the gas station is wearing the same hat Marlon Brando wore in the "Wild One" movie.

 

[Gino]

Yeah, and it looks like he has Pat Boone shoes on, just a little dirty, though.

Nope, we don't have any away games. All played at home.........................

 

[karst41]

Reminds me of my old neighbors. Father and Son were sign painters,
They would set the type and use overhead projector to the sign Boards
and go at it by hand. which is probably how these signs were made.

A strange twist of fate that I became a sign maker too.

 

[SignosaurusRex]

How is the 6 for 99 cents a deal?

NEW MATH . . .it isn't really so "NEW' at all.

 

[SignosaurusRex]

NEW MATH . . .it isn't really so "NEW' at all.