Remember the old Gulf service station on the northwest corner of Main and Summit in Morenci?
I remember hearing a story about someone hooking up an electrical circuit in the back where guys used to step out to relieve themselves and so-and-so received a good shock one day.
Could be an old unurban legend. Would it really work?
Check out the price of gasoline: 32.9¢ a gallon.
Working on farms when I was a kid, I learned about electric fences. After that first time, I didn’t touch them to see if they were working. But if you’re the guy that puts his 9 volt batteries to his tongue to test them- maybe an electric fence wouldn’t be a deterrent.
the Mythbusters already busted the shocking pee on an electric fence myth….. unless you’re really REALLY close the stream breaks up and no poke in the peepee
Then I’ll face the wind to be safe, next the time the predicament presents itself.
From Joyce VanValkenburg in Alabama:
Having lived almost across from the Gulf Gas Station — when my husband and I were dating in the late 1940s and early 50s (we were married in 1951) — we used to purchase gas there at 25¢ a gallon. A dollar went much further in those days!!
We also used to go over there and purchase pints of ice cream for 25¢. Of course, it was only 50¢ to get in the Rex Theater. When I was younger than 12 it was only 25¢ to go to the movie, after age 12 you had to pay the 50. I have no idea how much it costs to go to the Rex these days – I do know its about $7.50 here.
My husband says when he first moved to Morenci about 1940 it cost 35¢ to go to the Rex, a box of cracker jacks were 5¢ or you could go a couple of doors away to the Hole in the Wall run by Mrs. Cottrell and you could buy a hot dog for 10¢.
Of course, if you had company from out of town, you took them by Dr. Gerlach’s to see the two headed calf!!!