I was in Chums - but don't remember crashing any parent's cabins in Ruidoso - but I loved going to Ruidoso and went there a bunch - but my situation was a little bit different than ya'lls - Actually, wish we had time during the reunion to take a trip to Ruidoso - I know it has changed a lot - I went with my Mom a few years before she passed away - but it is still a beautiful place - always will be!

Mary

Having worked the Summer after High School graduation, with harry Best as a Chvron Station out on West Second,  harry and I thought we were doomed (we were) when the boss came around and set the pumps to read 34.9 cents per gallon of Regular.

Further West on West second, gas was at 19 cents a gallon almost every weekend, 21 cents at other times. 

Just east of us was another gas station selling gas for between 21 to 25 cents a gallon AND the put out a person in a clown suit to wave in their potential customers,

Gotta love marketing!

Richard,

I am glad you wrote.  No one has ever believed me that Fina in Roswell used to have gas at 19 cents.  You have collaborated my story.  Thanks

My dad had a charge account at the Fina on SE Main...I bought gas there for 17 cents a gallon in 1959 or 60. The cheapest gas I ever bought and it was during one of the infamous gas wars held in those days.

Linda Radar and I used to pool together to come up with .50 to buy gas so we could drag main and still have enough to buy cokes!!

Thanks Larry.

I remember one time Harry and I detailed a black and white Ford Mustang.  The plastic in the interior was drying out and the car was pretty dirty.  A customer brougt it in wanting us to clean it up.  Well, the sign said we did car washes - $5.  

Harry and I got carried away!   We "detailed" that car long before I ever heard the term applied to car cleaning.  We had brake fluid in a squirt can that the boss stated would not rot rubber or rubber products (Vasiline will!).  So, we washed and waxed this car - tires, floor mats and wheels.  Windexed the windows,, vacuumed the interior, wiped down the entire interior, and used the brake fluid (sparingly) on the guys dash, door panels etc.  The before and after was stunning!.  Our customer was floored.   He wanted to tip us both $5 - and pay the $ 5 bill for the wash and clean.   We turned him down - just said, next time, bring it to us for whatever he needed for it! Never saw him again!

This old Chevron station was turned into a Real Estate off several years ago. As one heads East on West Second, there is a jog to the right (used to be anyway) and that is where this station was.  West of, across the street from Brazier Burger?

Something my kids didn't believe - I owned (for a while) and old 59 Ford Escort station wagon.  At the time I worked at the station, I owned a 57 Chrysler Imperial, 392 Hemi - white with huge tail fins and a fake embossed spare on the trunk lid with a grill any dentist who puts in braces could appreciate.   

We could cruise all night on a dollar's worth of gas.  And we did a lot of cruising.  Looking for the elusive girls who would think we were cool.  Apparently they didn't exist.