What got the "OMB3 Place" famous around here (and its nickname) was the Oliva Master Blend 3 bundle of 20 cigars for $60 ($59.99) including shipping. It was a heck of a deal for a dang nice cigar bundle that they offered periodically.

Well... it has been quite some time since that deal at THAT price has been offered over there. They still promote special sales on the OMB3 bundle, but, instead of it being $60, the best price they have had for a long time now has been $65.99 -- $3.29 a cigar.

And that seems to be the "new normal" for the OMB3 bundle when its on sale at the OMB3 place. Still not a bad deal but not quite as wonderful as it was. Furthermore, at that price, you can sometimes get that exact same bundle here on Cbid for about the same on freefall even with the $7 shipping and, of course, if you are combining shipping with some other order, you might even get the bundle for less overall - all things considered.

Unfortunately, the "new normal" for the super-sale price on the Nocturnal Bundle over there has also seemingly per increased as well. :)

I remember when a gallon of gas was 52 cents.

Wow!
When I got my license, gas was 27 cents.

and they pumped it, cleaned your windshield, and offered to check your oil...or rather the car's oil

Stumbled into a full service gas station not too long ago...Milwaukee, maybe ....deja vu-ish

how was your oil?

I don't know....I wouldn't let the kid near my dip stick

My Father managed a service station in the 60's, and there was even an ice house, with the chipper/grinder on the front porch. BIG blocks of ice, and we still have the "tongs". that were used to lift and carry the ice blocks. Gas was 27- 29.9 as my first memory and I would often be there as a 4-5 year old with my Grandfather. There was an air driven car lift, (Now outlawed, I think) full service and he would even sell a car, there were NO covered pumps or the lift, just a BIG lot, even the dump trucks would fill up there, it was a Marine brand station. We still have some mini screwdrivers from the place, and I hav his leather billfold that hung on a chain. I also re-used the change machine that hung on your belt when I worked there in the summer of 1980. Ironically, I wasn't able to get a job at the HIS factory the summer I graduated, at 17, 1980, although I had worked there 40 hours a week during the summer I turned 16. SO, I actually got a job with the manager of that station. Daddy had passed it along to a couple in '72, since he was already the "Carman" on days at the BIG L&N rail yards in Bruceton. By then, I only pumped gas and sold cigarettes and ice. Daddy had to stop using the lift and by then had brought home most of the manual tire changing tools!! I was never old enough to do that, but I watched my brother, who was 10 years older than me, beat off quite a few tires and re-mount them! That was a JOB!!! As well, we had a metal, two door ice box like you still see every so often that was used for bagged ice that a local reloaded. The ice box was locked and I had to keep that checked and separate money for it. Pretty sure that the price was around 79 cents a gallon then.

POssibly New Jersey, where it's still not legal to pump your own gas, LOL

Great story, Mark. I used one of those metal change things for my paper routes on collection days

Those were pretty cool, pretty sure that it's still in the basement of the home where I grew up and my brother now lives in. It was one that they had used in the 60's, just fixed it a little and spray painted it with some chrome color model car paint, LOL.

Yes yes.....

Candy bars were a nickel and y’all walked uphill both ways in the snow to school.

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I'll never look at tires the same way again.

the ice cream truck guy had one

Ok Boomer.

hehe, never fails, this place turns towards the dark side quickly, LMAOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!

Buncha young bassturds.

I remember getting gas for $.18 when there was a gas war among local stations. And either green stamps or a glass that was part of a set you could collect. I have seen the full sets in antique shops around town.

At least I remember the green stamps, LOL! I was little but would have to go with my Mother to the store around an hour away in Jackson, TN to get a few goodies with those things.

I remember those.....

Jesus am I old?