October 21, 1971, Twin City News-Record
An ordinary scene to be sure, but there's something nostalgic, at least to me, to see those two gas stations operating on Washington Street with the old St. Patrick's Grade School as well. And check out those gas prices! Of course, the internet is rife with many tables that translate those perceived cheap prices into today's dollars, so that 34 cents at both stations translates into $2.10 in today's buying power, by the reckoning of one table. The OPEC gas crisis of 1973 was about two years away so it really was the calm before the storm.
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