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In a message dated 4/25/2005 4:16:41 P.M.  Pacific Daylight Time, 
weeksh at bellsouth.net writes:
The last time (1969) that  I bought gas which was hand pumped into the car
from one of the old
sight  / gravity pumps was in New York south of Cooperstown.

Howard  Weeks
Harlem, GA

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I was up  in the mountains in Cal one day back around 1964 we were riding 
bikes at the  time. We got a little nothing of place A bar restaurant and gas 
pump (hand  operated). I told my buddy that I needed to get some gas before 
leaving so I  told the kid to put a gallon in the bike.  He did and I ask how much, 
he  mumbled something and I said "WHAT!" He said "50 cents."  My buddy 
started  laughing and wouldn't quit till we were some distance down the road. I ask 
what  he was laughing about. He said "didn't you hear what he told you the 
first  time". I said "No that's why I asked him again." MY buddy looked at me and 
said:  "He said a DOLLAR" 

Walt Davies
Cooper Hollow Farm
Monmouth, OR  97361
503 623-0460