" WORKING FOR SHELL " 1940s SHELL OIL CO. GAS STATION OWNERSHIP / FRANCHISEE PROMO FILM 13724
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This mid-1940s film was created by Shell Oil to promote careers in the service station industry, and tells a sort of American rags-to-riches story. The film follows the story of a U.S. Army veteran named Bill, who works himself up from a mere gas station employee to becoming a franchisee who owns a station of his own. The footage is mainly of conversations as well as cars being maintained at full service Shell Gas stations. The services offered in this era included complimentary gas fill ups, tire pressure checks, oil checks, and cleaning. The film was likely shown to people interested in entering into a franchise agreement with Shell, and probably also shown at local meetings of organizations like the Chamber of Commerce or Kiwanis. Note: this print is missing the main title and credits, so we don't know the exact name of the film or who stars in it.
0:08 A U.S. Army veteran named Bill sits at the dinner table with his parents about his post-war career 1:50 Bill kisses his girlfriend and then they have a conversation about the future 4:51 Bill walks towards a Vocational Guidance Office and meets a friend of his who dismisses the counselor's advice 5:09 Bill talks to a guidance counselor, 6:35 the counselor suggests different jobs all of which Bill does not like 7:11 the guidance counselor offers Bill a cancer causing cigarette, 8:16 Bill walks into an office of the Shell Oil Company and speaks with an employee there, 9:21 Shell employee begins explaining the company with footage of oil fields, refineries, storage depots, trucks, and scientists working in a lab, 10:32 a series of different Shell publicity material shots, 11:10 Bill and the Shell employee are back in the office and still talking, 12:20 Bill shows up at a Shell gas station and begins talking to the manager who gives him a job, 13:50 Bill starts his job at the gas station and looks under the hood of a car with the manager, 14:19 Bill services a car with a well-dressed man sitting in it while the manager observes, 14:56 Bill services another customer, 15:28 the manager is on the phone and then begins talking to Bill, 16:42 Bill accidentally runs gas over the back of the car of a well-dressed rich woman and begins cleaning her windshield, 17:51 Bill attempts to put a parcel in the trunk of the car and the woman gets progressively more annoyed, 19:14 Bill’s friend pulls up in an older car and Bill begins servicing him while they have a conversation, 20:37 Bill puts money in the cash register and begins talking to the manager, 21:06 Bill and his girlfriend go to dinner and the manager’s very fancy house, 21:41 the manager introduces his wife to Bill and his girlfriend, 22:08 Bill and the manager drink beer together and talk in the living room, 24:20 Bill is working at the service station while a calendar is switching in the background to show how long he has been there, 24:48 a family car pulls up and Bill talks with a kid in a scout uniform and his father, 26:13 Bill is woken up in the middle of the night by the phone ringing, 26:37 Bill puts a new tire on for the well dressed customer he had at the start of the film, 27:20 the Shell employee that spoke to Bill shows up at the gas station and talks to him, 28:16 Bill and his girlfriend run out of their house into a nice car as newlyweds, 28:48 Bill is shown working at Shell Gas station with his name on it, 29:46 several faster paced scenes showing bill filling up cars, cleaning windows, filling new oil, checking tire pressure, and talking to customers, 30:18 slow pan of a letter to Bill from the “Businessmen’s Lunch Club” inviting him for lunch, 30:25 Several shots of well dressed men including Bill eating at the club, 30:52 a man in an old car pulls up and hands over a present to Bill and they talk, 32:10 the present is a statue of Mary, 33:10 Bill fills up a fancy Cadillac car and talks with the owner while he smokes, 33:49 Bill answers the phone, 34:29 Bill continues talking to the customer in the Cadillac, 35:29 Bill begins talking to the camera, 35:54 Title with “The End”
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19:55 got to love how they light a cig straight over the ⛽️ filling
At 33:00 minute mark I thought this was going to end in a big BOOM.
@@canadagood In 1966 I had a summer job at a gas station where the other kid who worked the pumps chain-smoked while filling people up. It was scary, very, very scary. I just worked inside changing tires and mixed Pangit A & B to fill huge holes in traded in blow outs that the boss resold as "low mileage used tires".
@@DataWaveTaGo yet they never blew up. It's almoat as if we've been trained to be afraid of our shadows.i grew up on a farm, I'm surprised any of my siblings made it to adulthood with the nonsense we got up to.
@@DataWaveTaGo the low mileage used tires do terrify me. Cheers
It's a bad idea for sure, but gasoline back then wasn't as volatile as it is now (it had significantly lower Reid Vapor Pressure). First reason is with less advanced refining techniques, there was a large fraction of heavier molecules. This is why they needed lead in gas. Second, volatility had to be kept down or the carbs and mechanical fuel pumps of that era would vapor lock.
My uncle has some of the oil cans and a few gas pumps that he restored. I would have loved to have lived back then
My Grandfather owned an ESSO station when I was a kid in the 1960s and it was a interesting experience to see how a station was run . The promotion items that Esso gave away to customers for filll ups were things that brought people into the station, free drinking glasses and Toy trucks kept customers coming back as well as the great service. I think clean bathrooms were the main thing that was drilled into station operators. Selling tires, oil, and batteries were also things that people went to service station for.
I can't imagine what it was like back during this time period in America. When more than 3/4 of the males between the ages of 18 and 30 in your town had spent some time over seas fighting in WW2, many never came back.. then suddenly the war was over and they all came back home, totally different men from the innocent young boys that they were when they left. It must have been a confusing, but optimistic, bittersweet time in America. Still hing over and sad from the war, but happy, excited, and optimistic about the future!
Just imagine all the men who came back and should have gotten proper mental health counseling, but none of them ever did, they just had to blend back into small-town American life, like nothing happened. It really puts into prospective why our grandfathers and just men in general acted the way they did when I was growing up. I often wondered what made Grandpa so gruff and closed off, it never dawned on me that it was because he went overseas at the tender age of 18, and sailed all over the Pacific, survived through the sinking of two of the ships he was crew on. I knew him as an old man that walked with a cane, had a terrible limp, and couldn't hear anything out of his right ear. I grew up looking at him as a worn out old man, but now I realize he lost that hearing when a shell broadsided the ship he was on, and it exploded just a few feet away from the steel bulkhead that his berth was attached to. He wrote a letter to my grandmother after it happened explaining to her that a couple of the fellas were up all night playing cards and smoking cigars, and my grandfather was desperately trying to get some sleep, so he rolled over in his bunk and curled up with a pillow over his head and nestled in between two thick, iron, "ribs" that ran up the sides of the ship, and when the shell exploded, it tore through the iron cladding on the ships armored sides and sent shrapnel flying through the entire cabin, hitting everyone in the room.. EXCEPT for him! Because he was was tucked up between those two ribs. He said when he came-to, it was pitch black, and silent. Turns out he had lost his hearing from the blast, and couldn't see because the lights were knocked out and the room was full of smoke and sulfur. When someone finally came rushing in with flashlights, he sat up and caught a glimpse of the iron ribs he was laying between and he said there was steel shrapnel embedded into the other side of it, thad would have torn him into pieces had that rib not been there to shield him from it! He was rescued and brought above deck just in time to abandon ship! He spent the next 6 hours floating in frozen dark waters, covered in a thick coat of fuel oil that kept getting in his eyes. He said between the saltwater and the fuel oil, his eyes burned so bad he wanted to scratch them out of his head. They were rescued at dawn, and he spent 2 weeks in a hospital and went right back out on another ship to continue fighting! He said he was given the opportunity to go home, but then he saw his friends and fellow servicemen laying in the hospital missing limbs and dying, and he thought there's no way Im going home, I have to say and fight for these boys who no longer can!
Wow! Thank you for telling this story. My father served in ww2 and Korea. Thank the men and women who served and are serving.
I'm in oregon, one of the last 2 states that dont allow you to pump your own gas (new jersey is the other). I worked at a service station in the early 90s. The owner had his 76 station since the late 50s. He still ran it like this video. All about upselling oil and service work. Offering air checks and of course, washing windows. I learned a lot then, being a dumb high school kid. His main guy took the station over after he retired.
Did this 76 station have one or more full time mechanics? That is, did it offer automotive repair services? If so, are repair services still available at this station?
@@DataWaveTaGo it had 3 bays with 1 full time tech and 1 part time guy. Attendants did tires and patches if they were slow. Everyone from that station has died and it's currently under new owners. No service bays, all converted to convenience store.
@@TheBinderBoneyard Thank you for those details.
Imagine being able to be free. Honestly free. Like the folks in this show. The REAL AMERICAN.
Elaborate yourself a bit better. What do you mean by "free"?
@@sunnyrajput1912 Having spent two years at war and coming back home at last, I believe.
@@sunnyrajput1912 let me be a little like Brandon ? If you need to ask that question , you ain't American. Look around you moron.
The greatest generation , knew what they wanted, they lived threw some hard times, they knew anything worth having, is worth fighting for, VOTE
@@GeorgAndexlerAndexler lots of gaseous fuzz nothing solid in your expression. You talk like a political operative on an election campaign.
Ask about the training to “short stick” when checking oil level and keep pumping gas to overflow and make an even dollar sale.
Chocolate cake and cigarettes, I was born in the wrong time...
People in the 1960s, let alone earlier, smoked on busses, passenger trains, airplanes, retail stores, even elevators. There were public ashtrays built into everything. There was a consumer item known as "The Silent Butler" that was a tiny clamshell ashtray women carried with them so they could smoke anyplace an ashtray wasn't available, like in crowded public places that didn't have enough ashtrays even 10 feet.
@@DataWaveTaGo I remember my dad smoking in the super market in the 70's and him and everyone else just put their cigarette out on the floor and left it there. And of course he smoked in car and at the dinner table. Oddly I never smoked and its never bothered when other people do, you just rarely see it now.
@@olddisneylandticketsI recall my grandmother used to have a strong smoking habit, but we eventually got her off cigarettes for her health (after our grandfather passed...though he never smoked.) None of us in our family smoked (well my brother does sometimes but...) We're not really against it, but we just aren't really interested in it. Just seems unnecessary to me and that addiction is too real when people are smoking through a whole pack in a day... money wise.
Gotta love the Greatest Generation. They were my coaches and teachers back in the 60's & 70's. Survived the war, making up time and wanted the best life possible, willing to do everything necessary.
John Smith , you're absolutely correct.
Don't forget that they also went threw the depression era. They realized things could be better themselfs if one put in the hard work for it.
@@GeorgAndexlerAndexler mm hmm. There was a transition. Too early for most to see it. I love Her, don’t get me wrong.
Yes, but they did raise the generation that became the baby boomers. What went wrong.? The boomers are nothing like the greatest generation. 🤷♂️
@@rapman5791 Yeah, plus if people want to talk about the "Greatest generation", there shouldn't be a decline in quality on the standard of living. But in fact, we're only seeing what hollywood was willing to flim back in the day. Not the daily lives of those who likely were far less fortunate due to prejudices that stuck around.
but I'll give credit where credit is due. This one is a good one. It's not much different from getting a job today. You really don't just "take it for granted" and expect to be paid to be pampered, you work hard, smile and do your best for the customers and you'll climb the ladder. The guy in the suit who was a chauffer cause he tried to take shortcuts is JUST like those youtubers who think they'll be 20 forever and "figured out" how to get out of getting a job, then they hit 26-30.... and realize just how expensive it is to live well AND how unimpressed high paying companies are about a man who "spent the last 6 years talking trash and making racist jokes while playing video games" putting that on his resume. They existed every generation, I'm just glad this episode acknowledged types like that for once cause we know they existed back then too. and there are hard workers busting their tails to make things better even today.
LukOil - I remember those Service Station jobs.
I knew a German soldier that had a station in Alabama. He was the nicest guy a fella could meet. Gee he was swell.
Appreciating the amerikan way of life after living in, and through hell on earth.
@@GeorgAndexlerAndexlerGood to hear you made it this far. Keep going. Be blessed…
Engine tolerances were such that a quart of oil loss per 1K miles was not out of the ordinary.
And the oil consumption wasn't always due to the engine burning it, as gasket materials didn't hold up well back then, with engine oil leaks were commonplace.
Dang! That dude should’ve become a cigarette salesman. He would be rich in a month!
Bud Light should hire him.
Ronnie Ray-Gun stumped for Chesterfields.
😄lol...I worked for this company back in the early 80's. Last time you could have afforded to have your own station was in the mid to late 70's. Every year after 1980 the investment cost was practically out of reach unless you had an inheritance or other windfall. And by 1984 if your station wasn't pumping at least 80k gallons a month, you better start worrying on whether they would even renew your lease. As far as this guy in the mid to late 1940's we all know his future in the station business less than 30 years later in 1973.
By then, he may have done more business in car repairs than gasoline.
Today, most gas stations are owned by the company whose gasoline is sold there.
Yeah me too. In the mid-70's one could open a station for about 3000. bucks.
Thanks again for this treasure ! I was about to ask where people were expected to see such a long video in the 40's, but you gave the answer in the description of the film !
This is back before the restroom key was attached to something the weight and size of a cinder block. Now most of them don't even have restrooms. Just as well. They got to the point where they were too scary to go into.
The scene of the old car at 19:37: That "A" decal on the left was a [US] gasoline ration sticker used during World War II. The "A" status allowed motorists four gallons of gas per week during the war.
I love how everyone smoked cigarettes back then and they did it anywhere they wanted.
Like at a gas station?
They enjoyed every day back then. You had to die of something.
@@jaminova_1969 - In 1966 I had a summer job at a gas station where the other kid who worked the pumps chain-smoked while filling people up. It was scary, very, very scary.
@@jaminova_1969 BTW - People in the 1960s, let alone earlier, smoked on busses, passenger trains, airplanes, retail stores, even elevators. There were public ashtrays built into everything. There was a consumer item known as "The Silent Butler" that was a tiny clamshell ashtray women carried with them so they could smoke anyplace an ashtray wasn't available, like in crowded public places that didn't have enough ashtrays even 10 feet.
Not my favorite time, I get headaches from the smell
I wish it was like this today.
me too.
It can be, if the people "wishing it was like this today" would actually get out there and do it. Everyone wants others to wait on them hand and foot like we see in the shows, yet NONE of those making these wishes are "stepping up". Guess what? I AM doing that right now. I've been doing that for the past 10 years. Giving the customers what they want, not asking for a dime until the job is done. Not sitting on youtube wishing others would do that for me.
So you want it to be like this today... stop wishing...start WASHING. XD
@@MarioMastar calm down pssy.
Great video thanks for posting
I love these type videos. Please keep putting them out.
Wow... Back when good work ethics in this country were the rule, and not the exception. The base points mentioned here are still applicable today.
Yeah the problem with making it the "Rule" is when higher ups abuse the rule instead of acting on it. What they don't show in these videos is for those well off things were fine, but for the many others who tried, there was a lot of bias that prevented them from getting a chance (picture if that guy was a black man or black woman trying to run that gas station.... he'd be lucky if he was a janitor and he wouldn't be allowed to be seen). In this day and age, I'm black and live in a mostly white area and everyone's super friendly, I live very well and I've been given great opportunities. Things definitely are better now than they were back then, but that's because the people who set those rules also understand they must follow them. for a machine only works if it's cogs are well oiled, NOT just if the on switch is flippable.
🚬🚬Have a cigarette. Thank you.
That narcissistic woman is a trip! "There's a spot you didn't touch!" Who they used to refer to as, "an old bitty."
Always interesting to view the past.
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I would make it my goal to change her attitude, not just deal with it.
@@mexicanspec You're a GOOD person. Never give up, you have what it takes to succeed.
@@mexicanspec wonderful!
@@mexicanspecYeah I was reminded when I worked in the grocery store. You have people like that who will run you to the ground because they can. BUT...the nice thing about being "on the clock" is you get paid regardless of how effectively you work, and I was one of those types who got bored easily waiting all those hours with nothing to do, so I'd have just worked extra hard to get through her car so she could go away and I can start the next customer. I know it sounds hard to want to swallow, but gosh.... work is boring, not hard when you have nothing to do. and if you really don't like it, SOMEONE will recognize your work ethic and take you to a better position like what happened in the video. ;) (doubled my salary, baby!)
@16:37 even had Karens back then!
I would have aimed that spray bottle a little higher above the windshield on the drivers side.
You know what they say, the more things change, the more it stays the same .
We didn't need to invent a slur based on an innocent name though.... that's just modern day people really wanting to bring back the N word.
The older guy that's running the Shell station was actor Regis Toomey.
Fun film!
I was a young brit working as a pump jockey in Quebec in the eighties and didn't speak any French it was hit or miss whether the customers got the right amount of gas , one customer came back to kill me because I only put 5 bucks in his car , he paid by card and had asked for a fill up anyway he had a Chrysler le baron and it was - 20 and he ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere down the trans Canadian highway , I had to hide at the back of the station !!
I drive a tanker for Shell. Nice to see when a dealer store takes pride in their place. Out of about 300 only 10 do car repairs
Stole his smokes! 5:50😂
Its funny how the fuel station owner/mangers have to jump through hoops to make it.. while the oil tycoons live in the lap of luxury
Actually talking about two different things there. Private...
The oil tycoons have ulcers, heart attacks & are alcoholics.
It's almost like the real point of the war was.......*GASP*
I can't believe Shell authorizing a promo film being made, where they smoke right above where they're filling the car with gas.
Back in the 1990s I knew a Chevron gas station owner and he used to tell me the government were putting More restrictions on gas stations and that's back then
Today's service station is also a convenience store. Quick Trip is the best of them. No one does lube except mechanic or quick lube places.
One trick on full service back in the day was putting your thumb on the top of the dipstick so it wouldn't go all the way in the oil pan showing the customer (sucker) that it was a quart low. Then of course having an empty can of the best oil handy with the plunger spout in it. This was the scam when waiting on those rich snobby women that would always say "Oh, put in the best oil you have."
Yep, there are plenty of scams out there like that.
Women bother to add oil, or even THINK about car maintenance? 😂😂
I Am aware of that ,that's why my Dad showed us how to check the oil ourselves
@@onedayiwillmakesomecontent "But the dealership said it's maintenance free!" LOL
Cake, cigarettes, and suits at dinner lol. Two years at war and I realized my calling was to work at a gas station lol
Two years at war he wanted to be his own man, and that was one way he could sccomplish that desire.
Thank goodness veterans today can get FAR better jobs. I know I work with a lot of them. VERY nice and exceptional people. but yeah, the service today treats you much better than it did back then. you're no longer fodder, they will give you paid training and skills and when you go back to private sector, you get great benefits and the equivalent of a BA (4 years) MA (6 years) or doctorate (10+ years) depending on how long you served and can start at that GS level.
Always enjoy the videos. I'm surprised we got as far as we have with all those cigarettes and lighters around all that gasoline. My uncle owned a bunch of Sunoco gas stations he did vary well. Just like the video.
Simple advice for the modern world.
My grandmother worked at a shell gas station in the 1940s
I'd have loved to hear her story on that. these shows tend to show a lot of...erm....gender forced roles.... but I'd love to see more about how women or blacks lived at the time. It'll paint a better picture. Yes I talked to my own grandparents and they were able to tell me stories of what life was like for them. They had to of course deal with plenty of prejudices, but they still lived well enough to get my generation in good hands. I'm sure there's many people who have stories of making it just the same.
I'm old enough to recall college students smoking in class (if the professor permitted it, which most of them did. This was in the early '70s). But I never had a guidance counselor offer me a cigarette. I might have been impressed enough to go with being a service station owner/operator. But that would have been a bad move because self-serve gas stations began popping up in the mid-70s (although rare at first). Plus, my grandsons might be having to work from behind bullet-proof shields while watching their merchandise being taken out the door, although I doubt I would have ever lived in a blue state.. My beloved family sure dodged a bullet there--literally.
This is not merely "partisan politics" but an expression of serious concern for the reality of the rise of a Western. amoral populace which is indifferent to the well-being and safety of it's weakest, defenseless citizenry, their own children. The Democrat Party of the United States of America would make Hitler and Stalin blush. Your response is enough evidence to support this realty, you perverse, UK/ American/Western/Canadian 'Progressive" .
What you call "partisan politics" is the reality of life in America. Make excuses to escape responsibilities all you want, Democrat.@@BanterMaestro2-vh5vn
It's not Republicans who are showing pornography to young children, Democrat.@@BanterMaestro2-vh5vn
People laugh at my profession, im a mechanic, I had only high school automotive classes and years of real world experience working on cars, I didnt pay a dime on school and I make a good living servicing and fixing cars, contrast that againt a sucker who spent a fortune on school debt to arrive at the same place. Theres so much demand right now if you are good at fixing and servicing cars youre golden.
Everything you said except for the part about the sucker pain and going so far in debt for his piece of paper. That made you sound bitter. I'm fortunate to know people who are millionaires and those who also clean the toilet at the rest areas the ones ran by the state. In this case one man in particular is a millionaire won the lottery but he kept his old jobs. I will tell you it's the intermediate ones in management that gives the best hard time and a bad name. I've sat down with people who measure their income in six figures. They put their pants legs on one at a time like the rest of us. I had a very good doctor unfortunately we moved. But his son was a very successful plumber. He said it was all said and done his son made more money than he did by the time he paid all the malpractice insurance premiums.
Amen. And this coming from a guy with an AS, BS and MA, all paid off though. People often try to get degrees because they're "obligated to" but don't know how to USE that degree and that's where they waste time and debt. I do NOT want to hear the whining of a person who went to a "Top art school" and got $200K in debt just to end up swinding people online out of thier money for a living. No one owes you for going to school. You do it because YOU want to get better at something. and if you're already good at it and got the experience, then you don't need the degree. You're already proving you're a hard worker. I'm not bitter about the degrees I got, and if I could go back I wouldn't change it cause I learned a powerful lesson when I transitioned from engineer to social scientist (and went into a career in web development), but the sooner people learn these lessons (in highschool hopefully), the better off they'll be. You get paid for service, after all, your customers also get paid for service. We dont' need drawings or seat warmers in offices or youtubers screaming obscenitites... we need more people like you.
@@MarioMastar well said. You know I have a BS in business administration. I have a total of 191 hours. I started a couple of other degrees and decides to many things in life for a little more important. I grew up back in the hills and the hollars and far back in the woods. Oh yeah I also have an electronic certificate from a Vo-Tech and various other schools completed in the military. All together it made me a well-rounded person and as far as the height that I obtained at work was quite satisfying. Personal life is it okay. But I would say that each facet of my obtaining new knowledge and experiences, well I think every part of it helped out. Not every day and everything but in more or less a rotation. I try to be thrifty and use 5.00 words. No more than a $20 word. Compared to those 500.00 words when I was younger. For every person it impresses it scares away or drives away probably 10 others. Little Bear rambling but I'm not writing a thesis just a RUclips reply. If I remember right this fabulous mechanic bashed to a certain point those with degrees. I never did forget what my favorite economic teacher said. The UPS man made great money. He got to drive around to deliver packages stay in good shape through his work. Great retirement benefits and so forth. This economic professor met this UPS driver once and the UPS driver had time I guess they went on and told my professor these things. I guess you did pretty good for a quitter. She backed in at UPS driver had obtained a masters degree in Some field of business. But he give it up before you ever got started and it still to studies. I always thought that he was probably happy and that's great. If not too bad for him. He quit in life and didn't put history to work. So instead of pulling into 100,000 job which would be three times that amount today. He went for the economic benefits of being a UPS driver. In that conversation as we relate to our class by the economics professor, the UPS driver never once said that he loved his job. All he did was talk about what he was compensated. Now for that UPS driver I hope he's happy well but now he's probably in the old age home or dead. Now all the other folks you drive for a living regardless what it's for. That's great I hope you love your job as well. If you enjoy what you're doing and you do your best at it then you're probably happy in life. And you probably do okay financially. I'm only talking about this one UPS driver and his circumstances. You know I'm still going to get some hate comments that's all right.
Honda dealer near me is paying $70,000 - $100,000 a year for mechanics.
The world needs people who work a trade. Everyone's job offers some type of service for their community.
Yes the mannerisms seem a bit overkill and odd but it was a time of integrity, honesty, community and doing an honest days work.....seems those values have been lost as time went by.
It's Hollywood, they're showing the best of the best that they would be allowed to flim and share in the 1940s. This ain't today's youtube where you see the gritty reality of how people actually acted back then. Notice the excessive use of jokes and the happy go lucky mannerisms. You can tell it's a script like a hollywood movie.
This film rings true to this day, you can't be a sucker for deadbeats and you must provide the best service you can to be successful in the long run.
They missed the opportunity to title this film "Shelling for Shell."
Shell smells
Shell without the s. XD
Originally released at the end of 1945.
Now you need an insane amount of money upfront to open a gas station
Not to mention the laws, permits and hoops to jump through, just to get a permit.
I wouldn't think it would have been an enjoyable atmosphere in which to work. With the rationing that was still going on, if you didn't have supply problems, then there'd be every customer crabbing about the rationing.
Hehe I think Shell knew that and had to make this video to advertise working for their stations. XD Hollywood makes it look easy (well sort of, the one video of the boss dealing with a bunch of angry women before going to get his lunch looked like heck....and in the end he goes right back to it after telling some story). The only thing that bugs me is how much they emphasis "only women can be bad customers" I don't think most girls act even remotely that vain.... compared to what a lot of men do to try to skimp on you (at least the lady paid, the guy straight up played him for a sucker). but all the same.... "Sign of the times".....
Gonna be buying a Manual for the A-1H from you guys soon 😃
just only the end with a sheell logo
Lighting a cigarette around a gas pump not a good idea but heck, they didn't have seatbelts either, so why not?
Luv John Eldridge
@06:37-He had the opportunity to be a “refrigerator inspector”?
If it's anything like the ones today, he sure would've made a KILLING......jeepers....never let the HOA force you to buy a $7000 fridge... you'll be paying TWICE as much to get it repaired... Glad my parents got out of that situation....
25:03 "Tommy, do you like gladiator movies?"
you ever hang around the gymnasium?
Where was the car filled with Shell gasoline that broke the paper barrier?
28:37 Here my friends, is a Wise Man, and knowing this is Wisdom; He established his Career, (being able now to afford to build his House…) THEN He Marry’s. Not the reverse. True Wisdom, founded upon a Rock.
That's what I did. I'm a homeowner and 100% self sufficient. now I'm looking for a date, and honestly, when you're self sufficient, you can be a lot pickier about your standards. TOO many people think that being cute is enough to make me fall head over heels for them, but sorry, I'm not rich enough to babysit. We gotta be a team if we're gonna make this work." I'm not ending up on divorce court cause some idiot stole my credit card to buy a new dress "knowing I could pay for it".
17:15 "How'd you like a nice knuckle sandwich,? I've had about enough of you, you old bag!"
Hehe I can't help but wonder if she was a "test". sometimes companies will send customers to stations or businesses that are deliberately obnoxious to see if an employee can "handle the pressure" and if you do...just like the guy did, you may get an invitation to a higher position. If you don't though.... they'll know you don't have what it takes. I had a job where my BOSS admitted to me he only hired me because I was to be the fall guy for when his team failed and sure enough I was blamed and almost fired. but I kept my pride in check and just accepted my fate and quietly looked for another job. He later apologized to me after realizing I knew what was going on, (when I started showing up to work in suits and kept leaving for long lunches) but alas... it was what it was. Then I got another job with double the salary, worked there a year, got another job with double the salary again, worked there for a year, and eventually Microsoft themselves called me and gave me $20,000 to work for them, but by that point after 3 years there, I finally accepted my limit and went back to being a humble web developer. Atl east I knew what I was willing to take and what not, and didn't let that one boss stop me dead in my career.
8:20 smoke em up Johnny
whadamean you're gonna install self service pumps and turn the garage into a grocery store??
I don't like the cut of your jib, fella! what's your angle? wise guy, are ya?
People need FOOD not FUEL, sarge!
Somehow I just don't see an ex Major in the AAC flying bombers coming home to a job that includes scrubbing toilets at a gas station!!
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That was great! How America has changed. Today, greed, thievery and immorality reigns.
Back then, America had values and respect. Hard work. Good money. Real money. And no criminal banks.
Hang on folks. The worst is coming to this country.
K.k.k. was going GREAT GUNS, C.I.A propping up inhumane dictatorships yeah the past was BRILLIANT
changing times? Every man and their dog call the star of this video by his last name....he calls them mr. xxxx, they call him saunders.
That fool is smoking right at the gas pumps whie his car is being fueled?!!!
28:46
That leaded gas was cheaper and you got more miles per gallon.
The girlfriend is super-young Mrs Cleaver?
They had Karens back then, I'm surprised that she didn't as to speak to the manager
The society lady was not a Karen as she didn’t ask to speak to the manager, put down Bill’s ethnicity or religion nor did she physically assault anyone in any way. Notice that there were no Trump stickers on her car and she didn’t get arrested.
@@ToddMiller-nl2wn I still can't get over the LEFT making the name "Karen" a slur though.... and a misogynistic one at that. I'm disappointed how casually people throw it around. I figured the right wingers would dive on it but it's mostly lefties which bugs me....
Lotta B actors here
35:55 There ain’t nothing wrong with service, Man.
I can understand that some may with askance look upon the idea of expecting service to rendered in the world, because some wish and expect to be served. They think it’s an Honor, and sign of greatness, being served. I don’t expect to be served. I serve, serving is better. It is a sign of Kingship. It is a mark of greatness. Imagine how absurd the world seems with this paradigm? That one spoiled slave is being toiled over and looked after by a fleet of foreign kings, and this happens all over the world, each slave strives to be served by more Kings than the other slaves. Ridiculous. How am I take anything seriously?
Hehe yeah, I notice the people who wish that the modern day had service like this are people who clearly never did anything for other people in their life. I have to tell them "Then what's stopping YOU from doing this?" just to see thier "Well...I mean I want THEM to..." as they wipe egg off their face. No one lived like a King in the 1940s...we live WAY better now than we did back then...IF you work hard and do your job instead of whining online like a 20 year old still trying to avoid getting a job. XD
Enjoying a Bud lite? I think not!
Oh really? Cause apparently, Bill the Scout Master likes kids!
It was a Shlitz.
@@azmike1 I love jiminy glick. I don’t wear a helmet anymore
Bill didn't last very long...he lit up a smoke just a little too close to the pump.
In 1966 I had a summer job at a gas station where the other kid who worked the pumps chain-smoked while filling people up. It was scary, very, very scary.
@@mommymilestones Sure. However, by directing s specific comment to an individual poster a notification is generated for said poster. This is useful when a poster's comment indicates they have a curiosity for situational variations. You don't expect everyone to forever revisit a video they posted at just to endlessly scroll through comments to find a possible answer, in general posting, that addresses their curiosity, do you?
Lean to work the You Tube SM aspects.
Half the comment: Remember when we were free?! Meanwhile, at the time, unless you were male and white, you’d have almost no chance of being a manager let alone an executive. While I loath identity politics aka “woke,” these types of comments are the opposite end of the spectrums. There is a lot to envy about life back in those days, but personal freedom really isn’t one of them.
SHELL SMELLS IN MANY WAYS...😅
Imagine that woman is bad ??? Lol
All these values are biblical. Without God our nation is dead. Look around.
I agree athiesm has spawned a lot of selfish people who feel no consequence in making others lives miserable.... Including the ones who weaponize Christianity like many politicians just to have a scape goat "Don't blame ME, blame Christianity! even though I'm the one trying to get you all on the fields again and prevent women from having rights."
These are the people who raised the baby boomers . Where did they go wrong??
Elitism always does that in history. You work hard, your kids are born to well off parents and the kids only know getting spoiled to death, then they waste mom and dad's fortune and the next generation has sh*tty parents and the cycle repeats. Not for everyone, but a lot of people who complain about the past being better than the future clearly are living luxury if they have room to complain.
Nothing wrong with hard work, these days they encourage handouts and charge you more if you have good credit!
And now we have Walmart...
Okay going to vomit now
Screw the MAGA watch ad! Good video otherwise.
Are people in America that formal that they will wear a 3 piece suit in their own houses while on kitchen table with their parents?
Did service station attendants really exist and did they really wear bow ties at work?
They used to dress up when they had company. Now people wear pajamas to go shopping.
@@sunnyrajput1912 But we all have to look at it. No thanks
@@canadagood none I ever seen
I remember for like...2 days my dad tried to get us as kids to dress up for dinner.....and we hated it so much that he never forced us to dress up again. I could tell he was just trying to be formal like when he grew up but even our grandparents kind of were like "Eh...it's a new age, lets not force them to dress up.". It was less a requirement and kind of more an "expectation" but it just seemed rigid for the sake of making you uncomfortable in your own home. Gosh by my teen years most of us ate at our computers and I don't recall the last time we ate at the dinner table aside from the occasional time we see each other like Thanksgiving or Christmas. XD but ironically that brings us closer together than ever in the past.
All this advice you can throw it out the window. 🪟
Now a days.