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On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 20:15:05 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
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>We had one station that had one full-service pump, but it has been gone for probably a decade now.
>We all around here have pumped our own gas for decades now...and checked our own oil, and washed our own
>windshields. It is the norm.
>
>N.


I remember when some stations still pumped gas by hand by turning a
crank. And now I do the same with my diesel tank. Back then motor
oil was hand pumped into quart glass bottles that had a metal spout.
They didn't have canned oil yet and certainly no plastic bottles.. The
gas stations filled the quart bottles with a hand crank pump on a 55
gallon drum.