[PRCo] Re: McKeesport

[Fred Schneider]

The other state where full service is required by law is New Jersey.

The irony, Jim, is the first place I think I ever saw a self-service  
pump, and we're going back to about 1972 with this, was in the state  
of Oregon.   Apparently it was briefly legal and then made illegal  
again to protect the pump jockeys.  But I recall one gas station /  
general store that I found in the desert country probably southeast  
of Walla Walla and before I went into Idaho.

  Selbst Bedenung is self-service in German.   I forget the  
expression in French.   In Switzerland the gas stations have currency  
boxes on the pumps so you can get gasoline on Sunday when the gas  
stations are closed.   In France you can do it with a credit card but  
ONLY WITH A CREDIT CARD REQUIRING  PIN.   I was on fumes one day  
until I found a gas station open in northeastern France on a  
Sunday.    Pretty much only Oregon and New Jersey are the only places  
in the developed world where pump jockeys do it for you.

On Aug 27, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Jim Holland wrote:

> Fred Schneider wrote:
> .
>
>> It's particularly nice because it shows a gas station from before the
>> "slob in the box" era of gasoline marketing, back to when they were
>> called service stations and when you received service when you  
>> went there.
>
> .
> Oregon is still Full Serve  --  Self Serve against the law  --  they
> check oil and clean the windows.       Usually forget that when I  
> am up
> there  --  jump out of the car and prepare to pump gas and I Get
> Attention Very Fast!!       Basically very nice!
> .
> I don't view Self Serve as bad  --  just evolutionary process.
> Even many drugs are downgraded to OTC that were once prescription  --
> department stores are Mostly if not All Self-Serve  --  many other
> examples as well.
> .
> BE____Careful   on Oregon highways  --  highway patrol is Overly
> Enthusiastic.       Never received a ticket  (never got  
> caught??!!)  but
> had a cruiser follow me south on 101 - Coast Highway  --  considerable
> distance.       (((This is when I had my VW Diesel Camper  --  Great
> Torque but Horrible For Speed  --  had tractor trailers passing me
> UpGrade on Freeways  --  OFTEN!!!)))       Finally pulled off the road
> at Visitor Site and waited a spell  --  never saw cruiser again.
> .
> Others have also indicated that Oregon highway patrol is quite
> energetic.       CAlifornians are not well liked up there but I never
> really experienced problems.       L-o-n-g---Ago  I learned to say  
> I am
> from Pennsylvania  (I__AM!!)  --  not from CAlifornia!!!!!!!       Why
> the CA plates  --  Rental Car??       Beautiful State,  Oregon  --   
> Very
> Beautiful.
> .
> I was in a small Colorado town with one very small section that  
> could be
> considered  Yuppified.       Stopped in restaurant there and:::
> One person brought place setting
> Another One brought Water.
> Another One brought Menu.
> Another One served.
> Another One asked about dessert.
> .
> Gross Overkill in service!!!
> .
> .
> .
>
>> .......And we didn't even have a fancy name for it like
>> detailing.      It was simply vacuuming the seats and washing the
>> windows to get the tobacco off them.
>
> .
> Janitors  vs  Custodial  Engineers!!!!!!!
> .
> Not unlike Barbers // Haircuts.       Some are particular about their
> haircuts  --  that's fine.       I just like to walk in, get a  
> haircut,
> and leave.       Walked into   *_Barber___Shop_*    (so I thought)  in
> Burlingame and one barber was occupied, 3 others standing  
> there.       I
> was asked if I had an appointment?   """NO!"""       Each asked the
> other if they could accommodate me and one begrudgingly did  --
> NO--One  came into the shop while I was there.       Cheeze__Whiz!
> .
> .
> .
>
>>>> From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
>>>> Date: 2006/08/26 Sat AM 06:39:18 EDT
>>>> To: "PRCo" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>>>> Subject: [PRCo] McKeesport
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