Waiting in line to fill up the car in 1979: Part II
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 7. 04. 2023
- More footage of the 1979 oil crisis or "second oil crisis" and it's impact at various gas stations.
This time we're in Los Angeles, Califorina.
More shots of long lines and people pushing cars into the station.
Also, a game of backgammon to pass the time (who needs cell phones)? and a friendly visit from Carl's Jr ... đ
This video last around 6 minutes.
#carljr
#backgammon
#gascrisis
Someone had an eye for the ladies!
I love it. Two hot girls playing backgammon!
Your vids are the closest thing to actually going into a Time Machine đ đ đ
lol... let's go build one Jesse!
@@vampirerobot lol that would be awesome!!
I'm working on one! I've got the DeLorean and the flux capacitor, all I need now is some plutonium - that stuff is hard to get hold of!
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@@Jbaz79 I seriously wish I could go back to 1985. I promise I won't bring back the 2023 Sports Almanac and give it to my 1985 self! đ
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I remember as a young driver in 1980 when I saw gas hit $1.00/gallon for the first time. I thought the world had ended đ
I was shocked when it hit 89 cents! Was 59 cents when I started driving! Then again was only making $1.90 an hour flipping hamburgers on nights and weekends!
$5 last year did it for a lot of people.
It's about too
To think it was still under a buck in the south in 1998. 9/11 ended all of that.
@@JClaus1221 1999 up north.
I was 6 years old in 1979 and remember seeing $1.29 a gallon then thinking nothing of it not knowing what was really going on due to being so very young then. Loved seeing how a worker of Carl's Junior was handing out cold drinks for those waiting to fill up on gasoline here.
I am dazzled and beguiled. Thank you for posting these!! The two women playing backgammon was excellent!! đ„
This is great, the two young women playing bat gammon, classic! I was 26, a fun time even waiting for gas LOL!
Don't know which is odder:
Playing backgammon in the front seat, or that they didn't care if some guy was standing there filming them.
The driver is very pretty.
Nice 1964 impala 2:46 Love seeing these old cars and how chaotic it was back in 1979 trying to get fuel.
People were calm back then and patient
I was a young kid during this time and remember sitting in the car with my mom while in line for gas. You see how people were normal, being patient and not having meltdowns? We had strong coping skills. Imagine if this situation happened today? It would be total chaos. People can't even wait two minutes for their hamburger anymore. This video captures the world I remember and grieve the loss for everyday.
yep, well said
excellent point. also, notice how unfamiliar people with with a camera stuck in their faces vs nowadays when everybody records everything.
That's what happens in biden's world. That's why this world is dying.
Yep it's alot different now unfortunately đ
People did not record as a normal thing back then. So if someone is filming with a big honking camera in 1979 EVERYONE is going to be on their best behavior. The percentage of assholes per 100 people was probably exactly the same back then...
Pushing a Pinto to a gas pump would have me questioning my life.
đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł Hilarious!!
Try pushing a 30 foot Green Cadillac missing the blinker fin covers with your 500 pound aunt riding shotgun đ I haven't been right in the head since
@@TheInsaneChef That's not your aunt, that's a gorilla!
I thought that was a Carl's Jr gas canister at first.
lol... probably should have been!
It does say carls Jr
Me too đđ
wait, it's not? lol
I was thinking that also for everyone who was pushing the cars as a helpful safety feature so less chances of a runaway into the next car when gravity takes over
Grandpa in that slick white Eldorado around the first minute mark⊠love it.
Started bingeing this channel since Friday and haven't stopped. You are simply amazing. Nostalgia overload.
Never got to experience 70s, 80s, or 90s so just looking back seems so cool!
I experience the 80âs and 90âs. But never experience the 70âs.
Wow. Watching young girls roll their cars and thinking of how young girls are nowâŠthe difference is mind blowing. Young kids canât do that kind of thing now !
Not "can't" do it. "Won't" do it.
People do whatever they have to what lol
Okay, it's 89.9 cents per gallon, right? It took me a minute to put it together.
Mind you that those where times when a house was $50k and a Big Mac was 25 cents.
It's so different. Everyone is so calm. Wow. I was born in 98. I didn't grow up in a calm world....
The Honda, shown in the first few seconds, delivered about 50 mpg on the highway.
I had forgotten about the resurgence of backgammon!
I was 8 years old when this was filmed. To this day, I feel an odd sense of dread if someone Iâm with says we need to stop for gas.
Back in those days every Friday there were massive lines at the Bank Drive Thru's as people deposited their paychecks and it never failed during the summer months especially that there was always at least one car with steam pouring out of the radiator from the engine having overheated and whenever someone would pop the hood and then start to pop open the radiator cap you would hear multiple voices helpfully yell "STOP! Dont open the cap"
And yes everyone was pretty much this chill. Road Rage didnt exist because although there was the occasional rude driver there was no where near enough of them to justify the creation of a descriptive phrase like Road Rage
I truly miss those days.
89.9Âą gallon I miss hearing the bell ding when the car would run over the tube.
I remember multitasking! Waiting in line & laying on the car working on our tans!!âïž
Remember the odd & even license plate numbers for your day? Most people weâre honest about it! đđ»
I remember this I was 17 and I had a VW bug which was easy to push.
Nostalgic footage
I love this video it just shows how sweet and kind everybody was back then and they seem to care about each other.
Holy crap. Just found this channel and it was instant sub! I'm gonna love this stuff!!
Thx Joe..lol
Same here just found it đ
I subbed yesterday after discovering this channel.
33.5K subscribers now, I bet this goes to 100K this year.
@@vampirerobot your videos bring back memories of greater times đ
Oh if only I could travel back in time for just 1 minute, I'd go up to that Carls Jr. guy and ask him for some EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES!
And tell the guy working there, _"Oh, start saving your money. In 14 years a car called The Supra Turbo will arrive. Buy it, store it. You'll thank me later."_ đ
âTRY OUR BIG ASS TACO!â
@@faschuck Fuck you! I'm eating.
So glad I found this channel đ€đ»
Happy you found it too, Caleb! đ Thx
I started driving in late 1978 and I remember these times. There were the odd and even days using the last number on your license plate. I was working on 3rd shift so I would get gas after work and not worry how long it took. Adjusted for inflation those prices are similar to what we have now.
No way, a house that you could buy for $50k in 1980 is close to $1M today. I don't even think about gas prices when I fill my car, but I do pinch my pennies to pay rent. I now understand why everyone was losing their minds over prices of gas back then. It is more like $20 a gallon as of today.
Dude was ahead of his time, even getting free feet content at 2:20 like heâs predicting the weird ass future đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
I remember when the attendant would fill the car đ up for you. Didnt even have to get out. đ
Love when you upload man. Always great videos
Thank you. I'm just happy people appreciate these little videos.. lol
@@vampirerobotoh, we do. We _really_ do.
Watching this old footage of everyday life is so cool
1979 pushing car to fill up!
2023 pushing a walker to get to the bathroom!
Back when ladies knew a thing or two about cars. If you ask a millennial to push a car in now adays, she will think you are crazy !!!
Millennials are in their 40s now what
I had just turned 16 in 1979, got my license and then the fuel shortage hit. My ride was a 1964 Cadillac. Canât tell you how many times I ran out of gas in line in that beast. Lame. I always forgot what day I could get gas. But people were so chill back then and everyone pitched in to get through it. LA was a different place back then. Btw. I sure miss when cars came painted in different colors besides todays black gray and white.
@5:10 I was waiting to see that van open its doors and Jeff Spicoli and his friends falling out
Life was so beautiful â€
I was 13 and I remember this crap...I also remember that guy with the long hair, too tight rugby shirt and awful looking denim cut off'sđđ
2:36 The best car pusher I've ever seen!
3:30 Oooh, this car pusher is giving the first one a run for her money! đ„Ž
How does a Pinto run out of gas? đ€
Back when it was normal to drive by and catcall. It wouldnt bother the ladies. Sheâd either smile back or brush you off. Not saying it was right but Nowadays you get canceled.
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Man i was 7 years old and vaguely remember when my dads LTD was low on gas when we made trip to Cali. We waited a long time bcuz my dad was one who nwver let gas gauge go under Qrt tank. I just remember me and my sister telling my parents " you can make you can make it all way to Cali with Qrtr tank dont stop" đ
Hey look it's Clark W. Griswold in the family truckster station wagon....đđđ
Love all the ppl running out of gas waiting in line lol
Oh how I wish I was born back in these times
Loving all the footage on your channel. I know you've probably been asked this many times, but where do you get all of your footage, did you shoot it all? Asking because we have a retro channel too where we recorded lots in the 80s/90s. Great channel!
Wow! Thanks. No, these are b-roll footages from news stories, I've collected. I did not shoot these or own them. So don't be surprised if this channel is gone in a few weeks lol. Actually, you have a lot of fans here.
What you have is special. Keep it up!
A teacher in my high school had a Sebring Commuta-Car, an electric car from the '70s.
The batteries - deep cycle lead acid- were under the seat. Top speed of maybe 35 mph, with maybe a 40 mile range. Strictly for in town use. It was more or less a golf cart with a body...kinda cool, though...
One of those ran a red light and my mother hit it while taking her driver's test. She passed.
Im really enjoying your videos. Thank you
I enjoy reading your comments Retro. It's just so hard to keep up now...but I really do appreciate your fun comments.
Also, hard to ignore your killer avatar! đ
@@vampirerobot I actually used to collect retro video games, toys, VHS, and such for years. I was watching your FAO Schwarz video this morning and saying that many nintendo stacked up gave me chills :-). I also am a huge George a Romero fan and love all his zombie movies. Thanks for the reply. Hope your day is great and have a happy Easter if you celebrate.
It's always the older men that offer to help a lady, the younger ones just stare đ
This is when the Honda Civic started to get really popular, I saw a few in this video and many other cool classics of all different makes.
Where do you find all your footage? I've been restoring footage from the early 1900s but am trying to find more recent stuff
I remember this I was 10 years old learned quick what time to get to a gas station we go at 4am before the lines when the tanker showed up.
Love your channel
I was 19 in 1979 and waiting in line to fill up my 1971 AMC Javelin 8 cylinder gas guzzler :)
Love this channel.
Got notifications on! đŻ
Thanks... always appreciate âșïž
It can be hard for people who weren't alive then to understand... But backgammon was very temporarily considered cool in the late 70s
Yep me and a few of my buddies played backgammon all the time back then.
Yep, I remember sitting in the gas line back when I was a kid, that was so weird.
2:16 Seems the camera man was having a good time here.
Can you add the location for each of these videos in your description if you have them? I appreciate it but regardless your videos are awesome thank you so much
carls jr for the win, what a more lovely of a time.
Old man getting out of a 1972 Ford LTD.
This dude is a time traveller
I wish
†seeing that BIG Ole Lincoln Mark 5 there @ 5:45 white body, white top and I bet the interior is all white also !đ. I use to have a 1987 Lincoln Town Car White body White interior but with a blue rag top I â€ïž it!
During the crisis, we had odd / even days based on your license plate. Even numbered plates got gas one day, and odd the next...
So when there was day 31, people with even plates would need to wait all the way to the 2nd to be able to fill?
Are you a time traveler can you show us your Time Machine please
Are these all of your videos? If so, great documentation
Yeah that was a bad year for gas, but a great year for short-shorts.
Right?
Wow how the gas crisis affected so many. Look not a single hybrid or EV emission on the road. Pure gas powered fuel only.
This makes the 70s seem a lot more recent than it is in my mind
Those vans remind me of Truckin' trading cards (1975).
Damn I was ten years old in1979 wow this is too nostalgic for me man I miss the 70s and the 80s
I remember it all, not so dearly! I lived in Pasadena at the time and experienced the same situation as the two ladies pushing/steering their autos. I allowed a gap to form between me and the auto in front and some jerk drove passed into "my' space! Other motorists noticed and were most 'helpful' in defusing the situation!!
Your Grandma was the Little Old Lady From Pasadena? Iâm a socal native and those were the days
Ahhh, I was 10. Sitting in the backseat of my parents new VW Rabbit and playing with my Pulsar action figure.
Vampire Robot - where do you get these videos from??
That ford van was like the one I used to own, had a lot of girls in that van đđ
Cameraman understood the assignment.
My mom tells me stories about this all the time. Our modern day equivalent is toilet paper. đ
My mom had a backgammon case next to her sky high collection of albums r&b artists of the 70s when I was growing up. I am 80s born. I never asked her to play backgammon and never saw her play it and I have no idea why i even know that is backgammon because I never opened the case.
I remember these days..mom bitching about how expensive the gas wasđ
Not much changed my mother still does it to this day đ€Ł
The cars †Todayâs cars are crap especially Nissanâs. What is the game the women are playing in the beginning? My grandma hosted parties a lot and I always went in the bar and liquor cabinet to take the cherries when I was a kid. đ That game was there with the cards and I never knew what it was?
Backgammon
Huh... I turned 13 in '79 and had moved from Maryland to Colorado a year earlier, but I sure don't remember this crisis. I remember the first one in '73 (Googled the year)... getting lunch while waiting in line (although I could have sworn that one was around '71) while living in California.
Itâs the King Faisal đđžđŠđžđŠ .
Are these typically tv news footage?
The most wonderful time . Beyond comprehension today. You kids will never know freedom, happiness, we took guns to school, we drove fast easily fixed at home cars. The greatest music ever made, everything made in America, beautiful girls in halter tops, freedom and independence. If you weren't there, you can't even imagine
I AM A big fat rich man in a big white Lincoln Continental that had custom license plates that said I AM pulled in to a service station and said fill it up... The man working there told him no! He just did not like this guy and his uncle owned the gas station so he could refuse to sell him gas if he wanted to... The man looked at him and told him if he did not sell him gas... He was fired ! Since his uncle owned the gas station... He laughed in his face and refused to serve him... The man was pissed and drove off swearing at him... An hour later the phone ring at the gas station, it was the mans uncle telling him that he just sold the gas station and part of the deal was he had to be out of there within the hour.
Backgammon, the iphone of '79
I love Carl's Jr. Western Bacon Cheesburger, please!
A classic!
I am Gen Z I found this video to be very interesting I wonder what else you guys have back in your day?
Odd or Even get in Line at 5 A,M, to get to work Across town by 8
Why were they pushing the cars out of the gas station? đ€
will you be doing a 2020 decade everyday things or 2030 ?
Wow people actually talked to each other back then. Nowadays whenever you try to start a conversation everybody gets offended and thinks you are a weirdo.
Where's part 1?
I was in High School in 1979. I don't remember having to wait in long lines to get gas. This was in Illinois. Maybe we had more gas available?
Same here. Odd/even plate refueling Yes, but not long lines.
I pumped gas at an Standard gas station in Hoffman Estates, Illinois in 1973. I was 16. The gas lines were as far as the eye could see. You could only get $5.00 of gas. At that time gas was around 40 cents a gallon. People would wait sometimes for an hour or more to get gas. People were not happy when they pulled up only to be told that the station was out of gas.
The second oil embargo was in 1979.
Can't believe gas was $8.99 for regular back then.
0.899 cents...
People in America say the early 2020âs was the worst time in America due to inflation and high gas pricesâŠâŠMy girlfriendâs grandpa who was in his late 30âs in the late 70âs says the late 70âs where worse, even though in California gas got to $6.50 a gallon in mid-2022, at least we where able to fill up unlike in the late 70âs, also highest inflation got in 2022 was I think 8% , inflation in 1979 was 11%âŠ..I guess the late 70âs where worse then the early 2020âs if you take the pandemic out of the question
Beauty
@3:43 well...........dad gum!
2:16 niceeeeeeeeeee
Where is this at that there getting 8 dollars a gallon , I'm 67 and lived in SanAntonio all my life and the most I've paid was 4
89cents.
6:15 what a ride!
lol especially if you hit a bump sitting on that "seat"
For everyone thinking this was the norm and eveeyone was so much better back then... the next suggested video i get is called "tempers flare in lines for gasoline in 1979" its on PBS NewsHour đđ
Iâve seen it and it doesnât even compare to todayâs environment.