gas station give-aways of years past

Ooh take me back a few decades...1968,69 & 1970 I worked at a Marthon station as a "driveway salesman and grease monkey"  The intersection where I worked had Marathon, Shell, Sunoco and Texaco stations all directly across the street from each other!  Talk about competition!  Low prices and FULL service, plus the giveaways! I know I had a  half a lifetime supply of the  white glass BC "Grog" coffee mugs.  l also endeared myself to my future mother in law with all the "Mums" I brought to her while we had them as give a ways.   Nope don't remember any knife sets though.

Marleysky wrote:Ooh take me back a few decades...1968,69 & 1970 I worked at a Marthon station as a "driveway salesman and grease monkey"  The intersection where I worked had Marathon, Shell, Sunoco and Texaco stations all directly across the street from each other!  Talk about competition!  Low prices and FULL service, plus the giveaways! I know I had a  half a lifetime supply of the  white glass BC "Grog" coffee mugs.  l also endeared myself to my future mother in law with all the "Mums" I brought to her while we had them as give a ways.   Nope don't remember any knife sets though.

Oooh!!! Grog mugs! Since you're still alive, you must still have a supply of those. Care tosend one my way?

The Hart Mark

Funny how the mentioning of gas station give away surfaced as I was just talking about that. Back in the 70's when I was waiting for Evel Knievel to jump the Colorado river, I was listening to a transistor Sunoco gas pump radio. My father gave me this cool little gas pump radio which had a wrist strap. I would bet that this was a give away item. I wish I still had it.  Seeing how Eddie Braun fulfilled his dream and re created Evel's jump last week successfully, I was thinking back on the original day in 74. I was gathered with my friends as we listened to the jump as it wasn't broadcasted on tv. Talking with my younger co worker who's 25, I said I remember that day like it was yesterday. I recalled listening to my transistor radio and he said " What is a transistor radio".

batjac wrote:

Marleysky wrote:Ooh take me back a few decades...1968,69 & 1970 I worked at a Marthon station as a "driveway salesman and grease monkey"  The intersection where I worked had Marathon, Shell, Sunoco and Texaco stations all directly across the street from each other!  Talk about competition!  Low prices and FULL service, plus the giveaways! I know I had a  half a lifetime supply of the  white glass BC "Grog" coffee mugs.  l also endeared myself to my future mother in law with all the "Mums" I brought to her while we had them as give a ways.   Nope don't remember any knife sets though.

Oooh!!!  Grog mugs! Since you're still alive, you must still have a supply of those.  Care tosend one my way?

The Hart Mark

Sorry Mark, that's why I said a "half life's worth", cause my better half requested that I not pack and move them to our "new" house back in 1999. Had to jettison a lot of my old stuff that didn't match our current dinnerware pattern. I recently had to dispose of my work shirt with the Marathon logo on one side and my name embroidered above the pocket on the other side. ( yeah, it was about 6" too short for the buttons to match in front! ) Ah, they're just pleasant memories now!  If I had one (grog mug) I'd definitely send it to you! I still read BC in the funnies.

roddie wrote:found this image on the web..

Hey Roddie! Thanks for the picture....Yup them the one's.