‘60s Gas Prices

I’d like to know where your reporters obtained their information for the Feb. 13 article on plummeting gasoline prices. Gasoline for 25 cents a gallon in the ‘60s? I don’t think so, unless there was a local price war, or maybe those prices were in the Midwest or East. In California the price for gasoline held pretty steady during the ‘60s at 32.9 cents for regular and about 36.9 cents for ethyl.

I worked in a cut-rate gasoline station in Pomona in 1957, and our cheap gas sold for 28.9 cents for regular and 32.9 cents for ethyl. We became embroiled in a price war for a few weeks that summer and the price fell to 24.9 cents for regular, but that was an aberration and didn’t last long.

DON M. HOWARD

Rancho Cucamonga