To get music you had to go to the record store and the storekeeper would play it for you if you wanted to hear what was on it.
They came in two sizes:
- big records with little holes in the middle
- little records with big holes in the middle.
To get ice cream you went to the drug store. ( Now you go to the drugstore to get motor oil and to the grocery store to get drugs. )
A 7-11 opened at 7am and closed at 11pm because no one was out at any other time.
When a new independent gas station came to town the other gas stations tried to run it out of business. It started a "GAS WAR" and prices dropped to about 17 cents a gallon for a while. When is the last time you bought gas in a price war ??