Bunch of Ikes!

I was 8 years old when they came out and I remember going to the bank with my grandmother and getting a handful. As far as spending goes, they never seemed to catch on, even when they were being minted. Everybody liked them, but the age of spending large dollars had passed. My brother and I filled up a Whitman folder.

Later as an adult, I filled up an Ike Dansco album, hunting down the best ones I could find at shows and coin shops. It was cheap fun.

 

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I'm curious what location still has gas attendants. I recall there was a state where you couldn't have self-service but that was many years ago.

Haven't seen one circulating for decades. I pulled every one out that got spent at the ice cream parlor in high school (early-mid 70s) but never spent any myself.

 

Twenty years ago I pulled into a gas station, got out and started pumping with the intention of filling my tank. I got about 5 gallons in when a guy came running out of the building yelling and waving his arms wildly. He was at full speed so when he got close he yelled “what do you think you’re doing”.

Quite surprised but never taking my hand off from filling my tank I replied something about what does it look like. The guy replied about it looking exactly like that and that it was against the law for me to pump gas. He then told me to stop pumping and go sit in my car. I wasn’t allowed to get out of the car if I was 50’ from the pumps.

The concrete was marked off for the 50’. I was stunned and the look on my face showed it. He asked where I was from. I told him and he just said in a disgusting voice “foreigners”. Seems it was against the law in Oregon for anyone to pump there own gas. Not sure if it’s still that way but I had pumped gas longer than him. But I wasn’t trained by the state of Oregon to do so.

 

It was the People's Republic of Massachusetts, but that was a decade ago. Apparently someone had set themselves alight whilst pumping their own gas, and it was decreed by the great leaders that it was no longer safe for anyone to engage in such blatantly self-sufficient behavior.

 

You still can't pump your own gas in New Jersey, at least on the turnpike. Not sure about anywhere else.

 

Gosh, I guess it's still true in Oregon too. https://www.oregonlive.com/commutin...ueling-and-gas-station-attendant-service.html

 

No headway in 20 years. That’s so sad.