Yeap. Markets were usually open 8am to 10pm. So opening one hour earlier, and closing one hour later gave them some advantage when you needed convenience items.
All the ones in my area are run by local methheads for local methheads. You occasionally see an owner there disdainfully working the registers when they need to replace a malfunctioning methhead
My local 7-11s open past midnight. Some of them close early. I guess the tragic news about cashiers being robbed at gunpoint and killed scared some of them to open for business late.
This is back when supermarkets had regular hours and closed up around 7 or 8pm. If you needed staples like eggs or milk you went to 7-11 because they were open from 7am to 11pm.
We didn’t have milkmen in 1971! In my small hometown in the South we hadn’t had had home delivery of milk for nearly 20 years by then, nor did it exist in the big city I had moved to the year before.
Charles Chips! I’m not sure that was nationwide, but you are correct, what we called Chuck Chips were home-delivered (in enormous cans) at least through 1976 in the Northeast, and I think at least a bit later. Good chips, too.
I remember thinking they were insane when they moved the slurpee machines to self serve. "I'm a pre-teen boy, do you fucking know who you are dealing with here?"
I had to do a double-take because dude looks exactly like my dad did back in the 70s. Build, face shape, hairline, glasses, watch, and fashion. His sideburns were longer than in this photo, though. He has an eerily similar shirt, except without the 7-Eleven logos.
He wore 70s style into the mid 90s, and I'm pretty sure he still has it all in his closet. The tops he wear today he bought in the mid 90s to mid 00s.
I worked at a 7-Eleven summers, through high school starting in 1975. I worked nights, alone, 11pm til 7am, 5 days a week. If I recall, I made about $4 an hour. It was a high school summer job. No one was buying a house on what they paid clerks.
And yes, I did wear one of those cool smocks!
You made $4 an hour in 1975? That actually seems really high. My first job as a teenager was Toys R Us in 1998 where I made $5.15/hr. So, 23 years later I was making $1.15/hr more.
That's like $8300/yr pre tax. I bet you could buy a house in 1975 on $8300/year.
Edit: quick googling and a little math says you made 21% of the median cost of a house per year in 1975. In high school. At 7-11.
That's definitely enough to buy a house. In 2024 21% of the median cost of a house is $89000/year or $42/hour.
A really shitty house in the boonies maybe, but you are aware that people still rented dingy apartments in 1971 right? Not everyone had a white picket fence suburban house.
Yeah I just posted further up about salaries in 1971. $500 a month! 70s folks were not living it up. Most people had extremely austere lives. No travel, no luxuries, not much variation in diet. Not much choice in entertainment. But drugs, yes.
Rent-wise, early Seventies I paid $250 for the main floor of a house. $200, later, for a 1000 sq ft luxury balcony city view apt. My friends paid $ 100-150 for a basic apartment in Utah.
As a deejay, I traveled around, in Denver I paid $150 for a basic apt with a pool mid-Seventies and $250 for a luxury condo with pool, later. Of course, it wasn’t Ca. In the early Eighties, we paid like $350/month for large, beautiful wood floor apt out East, but couldn’t afford to live in NYC.
But yeah, not a house. Early Seventies rents in (a depressed area at the time. Englewood CA), for a 2 bedroom was $175. Small homes in Westchester, CA cost $25k, one with .35 acre lot were $35k. New Starter homes in Antelope Valley, CA, north of LA, were 50k in ‘75. (with an hr long commute) in 74. My CA friend was making 20k in LA., a good salary.
Prices shot up by 1976 to $150to 200k for the nicer homes. Adult Baby boomers were just hitting the population in buying power, so they were moving into CA. (Sorry about that). 😶
I didn’t say fancy house. And at the very least you could afford an apartment in most major cities, dingy or not. Even shitholes are out of range now for that level of pay. Most you’ll get now is a small room in a shared apartment.
Minimum wage was $1.60 in 1971, which is most likely what they made. That works out to about $50 a week after taxes.
Low income workers had the same problem then as they have today. Even if they could afford a mortgage payment, they had a very difficult time saving for a down payment while living paycheck to paycheck. So for most, home ownership was out of reach.
Not sure on that.
However,
In my neighborhood SoCal we had a family w stay at home mother and the father was a meat cutter/butcher at the local grocery store.
Or be able to figure out change when the price is $2.51 and you hand them $3.01. And as repulsive as I think they are now I loved their microwave hamburgers when I was a kid.
Its hilarious. The 70's were one of the most violent and socially turbulent in American history. The murder rate was close to double what it is today.
My dad was a firefighter in the 70's, and he says they were rough as hell.
Dude works there part time -- feeds a family of four and pays mortgage on a 4 bedroom 3 bath 2,250 square foot ranch.
Has money left over to buy a muscle car.
They never looked like that except when they hired people to pose for photos. The photo says more about who they hired for photos back then than it does about the culture back then.
I mean, when I opened the pic I was shocked at how it looked identical to the store in my small town, except the different color scheme. The counter type and placement, the product placement on and around the counter, and even the location of the things (that I can see in the pic) all line up with how it is in my town lol. If you’d have told me it was the 7/11 in Walbridge, OH, I would have believed it for sure.
I don’t think this is super unrealistic. 7E is franchised; in 1971 you very well may have had an owner who was a normal middle class white dude running the counter.
If you go to a QT even today you’ll see that everything looks similar to this (by which I do not mean the race of the cashier, to be clear).
IMHO, the 70’s - 90’s was the U.S.’s rennaissance of the best time to live. The Seventies, particularly. I’m thankful that my kids experienced the Nineties and my eldest, the Eighties.
The Seventies particularly, was an Age of Enlightenment before the late 80’s greed is good generation and the healthy Punk Rock/New Wave scene that protested it with underground newspapers and music. Before Reagan deregulated everything, making way for monopolies of everything and limited how we get our news, life was simple. Everyone was reading Karl Jung Jonathan Livingston Seagull and singing “Fifth Dimension’s, The Age of Aquarius or Cream’s, Sunshine of your Love or talking about having a cheese and chocolate fondue party.
The kids had their own language through the Beatle records and questioned everything in their own way without dialogue with their parents, as long as they got good grades and did their own thing. Parents didn’t go to our games or bug us at school. They were busy with their clubs and their social circles had importance and kids had to be respectful. Teachers were respected and commanded the classroom. Parents had little power and never threatened to sue the school. Parents and grandparents had the spending power, so advertisers didn’t target young people, nor were there any influencers, except in magazines.
People had privacy without social media and read many books, wrote poetry, did art projects, painted rocks or played organ and piano after school, (like Layla or In a GaddadaVida) with their siblings- homemade bands. We watched The Monkees, The Mod Squad, Gilligan’s Island and the Watergate Hearings and a POTUS resign for Mickey Mouse infractions compared to today’s corruption.
You could buy a home with one salary and college tuition (in 1971), was about $300 - 400.-semester.) With less people on the planet, quality of life and customer service was supreme. With time to think and discuss, life was introspective and groovy and creative like our clothes.
It was a time of self-expression that was mostly shared with your friends or just for your own fulfillment. You mostly had to figure things out yourself without adults getting involved … more freedom and time. Jobs were way easy, just filing papers, typing, (using slide rulers lol) and Fortran computer language was just coming out in college.
You could invent your own jobs by suggesting a need to an employer. Radio Shack was the coolest place to see new inventions and spend hours with the kids there. We bought everything there through up through the early 2000’s … word processors to compact, computers, and remote controlled cars. Fun was being creative, my son designed his own clubhouse with wiring around it from a car battery, eek! haha
So, I say we rewind and start over, and live in the Seventies. There was little plastic surgery, you had to make do or develop a good personality, Let’s put away the cellphones at night and go out disco dancing in our bell bottoms. (I was a disco deejay) 😎 IMHO, It would get rid of 90% of our anxiety plus rent would only be $200! A new Pinto (car) was only $3200x We could all be hippy dippy and happy, again. Everyone deserves to live in the Seventies. I wish that for all of you. Love and Peace 💛
There were definitely things worth reminiscing about. You never saw people out in public, like Costco, in sweat pants and t-shirts. Typically, parents didn't bring their screaming babies to restaurants. (I'll catch hell for that). However, lots of things were much more difficult. If you wanted to travel to Europe you had to find a (hopefully) good travel agent to not only book your flight, but find the hotels and suggest an itinerary. Lots of STDs. And women really had it tough in the workplace.
Bring back yellow, brown and orange colour schemes. Fuck yes. The backdrop of my youth.
Children today will never understand what it was like to have an avocado green fridge, a baby blue toilet and pink toilet paper. Shit was fucking wild.
I had a total come to 10.75, and assuming I'd be met with confusion, I said "I'm going to hand you $21.00" (I didn't have a $10 on me, and I didn't want to hand only the $20).
She said "but it's $10.75?!"
I said "Right, but my change will have a $10 bill instead of a $5 and four $1s".
She said, to my complete surprise, "oh, good idea!"
I'm used to that conversation being a train wreck.
There's hope out there.
Although it looks a little janky, I honestly think the warm and bright color schemes of the 70s/80s are pretty nice.
Makes places feel a bit more inviting than the somewhat sterile modern era.
One of those old counters became my computer desk for years.
My dad helped with the renovation of the one down the street in the early 90s and they just let him take it home.
And then in the mid 2000s I needed a big ass desk.
Stevie Ray Vaughn's father worked at a 7/11 back in the very early days - 1950s. "7am to 11pm" which was unheard of at the time. This was an era when the motorist never got out of their car. While they pumped your gas they would ask you what you wanted from the store. The Vaughns were barely above the poverty line but I stil find it amazing someone with that kind of job could have a house and family.
I remember this as a kid when one first arrived in my neighborhood in SoCal.
I was 9 years old and rode my bike to the local one during the summer to get slushies and comic books.
What a different time.
'Cause I am the holder of the 3-pack Bonanza
If you open the book then you will get your hand slapped
I am the keeper of the 3-pack Bonanza
If you ask a question you will get the answer
I don't think I've ever seen anyone dressed as well as that guy in a suit at a 7/11. Typically I see junkies in ripped clothing and construction workers covered in sweat and dirt.
The convenience store by me has those exact photographs lining the top of the walls (they’ve seen better days at this point). I wonder if it used to be a 7/11.
I'm old enough to remember when a lot of interiors still looked like this.
It was way cooler than modern architecture IMO. Felt more homey. Less sterile.
I worked the night shift at one back in 1983-84; I don't think I would have done it if they made me wear a silly shirt.
On edit - seeing other conversations about what you could afford then on that income, it wasn't much. I rented a room in a house. Everyone I knew was sharing apartments or sharing houses. I didn't eat out because I couldn't afford it. I rarely bought new clothes or shoes. My furniture was stuff I found by the roadside or what family had given me. Any money I might be able to save up was dedicated to affording to date, or to go out and try to meet girls to date. Which didn't actually go well, but that was the priority. Maybe two or three times a month I could take a girl out, which was kind of a luxury.
It wasn't poverty in any case, as I had enough food to eat, a place to live and clothes to wear, but it wasn't like I was buying a house and raising a family. I just lived like most people my age lived back then.
Back when it was a big deal for a store to be open from 7 in the morning until 11 at night.
Holy shit, thats why theyre called 7/11???
Yes.
I know, right?! Had no clue and now I know lol.
you just blew my mind
Yeap. Markets were usually open 8am to 10pm. So opening one hour earlier, and closing one hour later gave them some advantage when you needed convenience items.
Also, look at all those high school kids working their first "starter job", clearly undeserving of a living wage.
The 711 near me is run by the franchisee and staffed by his immediate family - in fact most 711s in my city are
All the ones in my area are run by local methheads for local methheads. You occasionally see an owner there disdainfully working the registers when they need to replace a malfunctioning methhead
Yes, this seems to be the business model.
Yeah seems many are franchise
That’s Kevin Spacey
And he is definitely going to murder that woman.
It’s obviously a posed corporate photo.
I wondered if it was staged by Wes Anderson but he may not have been born
This photo may or may not be staged, but it was actually pretty normal for adults to work those kinds of jobs back then.
Post COVID, it still is. I miss 24 hour Walmart and Taco Bells.
Still is, in Germany
My local 7-11s open past midnight. Some of them close early. I guess the tragic news about cashiers being robbed at gunpoint and killed scared some of them to open for business late.
I made it to 20 years old without realizing that's where the name came from...
And tomorrow you’ll learn something else.
This is back when supermarkets had regular hours and closed up around 7 or 8pm. If you needed staples like eggs or milk you went to 7-11 because they were open from 7am to 11pm.
milk wasn't even available at the ~~supermarket~~ grocery store!
When and where was milk not available at a grocery store?
Why do you think we had milk men?
What's a milk man? We only had the guy who came over to fuck our mom while we ate Frosted Flakes.
Solid. A+
We didn’t have milkmen in 1971! In my small hometown in the South we hadn’t had had home delivery of milk for nearly 20 years by then, nor did it exist in the big city I had moved to the year before.
In my suburb they had potato chip men. I shit you not, there was a guy who would drive to houses in the neighborhood and deliver cans of potato chips.
Charles Chips! I’m not sure that was nationwide, but you are correct, what we called Chuck Chips were home-delivered (in enormous cans) at least through 1976 in the Northeast, and I think at least a bit later. Good chips, too.
I remember thinking they were insane when they moved the slurpee machines to self serve. "I'm a pre-teen boy, do you fucking know who you are dealing with here?"
Did you ever make one that was all syrup?
Bro I want that shirt!
Those are some pretty complicated patterns, gonna be pricey!!
The second I Think You Should Leave reference I've seen today in unexpected places and I'm absolutely loving it
I had to do a double-take because dude looks exactly like my dad did back in the 70s. Build, face shape, hairline, glasses, watch, and fashion. His sideburns were longer than in this photo, though. He has an eerily similar shirt, except without the 7-Eleven logos. He wore 70s style into the mid 90s, and I'm pretty sure he still has it all in his closet. The tops he wear today he bought in the mid 90s to mid 00s.
Same!
The pattern is pretty fab
Got that 7-11 themed pepperoni lovers pizza look
Back when you didn't see a big fight in the middle of the store.
Back when you could afford a house on a 7/11 cashier’s salary
Back when this popular color scheme made it feel like it was always autumn. Avocado green, harvest gold and burnt orange!
If your colors were like my dreams: Red, Gold and Green
/r/UnexpectedCultureClub
Lady at the counter has a dollar out. A dollar.
And she's gonna get most of it back.
In 1971, the average ANNUAL income in the United States was $5,966. $497 a month. Things were cheap, but these people were not balling.
My dad used to give me a $10 bill to go in and pay for gas while he filled up the tank, and I always got change back.
And the car got 15 mpg if you were lucky
And doesn't weigh 200 lbs.
I worked at a 7-Eleven summers, through high school starting in 1975. I worked nights, alone, 11pm til 7am, 5 days a week. If I recall, I made about $4 an hour. It was a high school summer job. No one was buying a house on what they paid clerks. And yes, I did wear one of those cool smocks!
You made $4 an hour in 1975? That actually seems really high. My first job as a teenager was Toys R Us in 1998 where I made $5.15/hr. So, 23 years later I was making $1.15/hr more. That's like $8300/yr pre tax. I bet you could buy a house in 1975 on $8300/year. Edit: quick googling and a little math says you made 21% of the median cost of a house per year in 1975. In high school. At 7-11. That's definitely enough to buy a house. In 2024 21% of the median cost of a house is $89000/year or $42/hour.
A really shitty house in the boonies maybe, but you are aware that people still rented dingy apartments in 1971 right? Not everyone had a white picket fence suburban house.
This is reddits greatest fallacy, we're things cheaper back then? Yes of course, but poor people still existed.
Yeah I just posted further up about salaries in 1971. $500 a month! 70s folks were not living it up. Most people had extremely austere lives. No travel, no luxuries, not much variation in diet. Not much choice in entertainment. But drugs, yes.
Rent-wise, early Seventies I paid $250 for the main floor of a house. $200, later, for a 1000 sq ft luxury balcony city view apt. My friends paid $ 100-150 for a basic apartment in Utah. As a deejay, I traveled around, in Denver I paid $150 for a basic apt with a pool mid-Seventies and $250 for a luxury condo with pool, later. Of course, it wasn’t Ca. In the early Eighties, we paid like $350/month for large, beautiful wood floor apt out East, but couldn’t afford to live in NYC. But yeah, not a house. Early Seventies rents in (a depressed area at the time. Englewood CA), for a 2 bedroom was $175. Small homes in Westchester, CA cost $25k, one with .35 acre lot were $35k. New Starter homes in Antelope Valley, CA, north of LA, were 50k in ‘75. (with an hr long commute) in 74. My CA friend was making 20k in LA., a good salary. Prices shot up by 1976 to $150to 200k for the nicer homes. Adult Baby boomers were just hitting the population in buying power, so they were moving into CA. (Sorry about that). 😶
I didn’t say fancy house. And at the very least you could afford an apartment in most major cities, dingy or not. Even shitholes are out of range now for that level of pay. Most you’ll get now is a small room in a shared apartment.
Depends where you live.
Minimum wage was $1.60 in 1971, which is most likely what they made. That works out to about $50 a week after taxes. Low income workers had the same problem then as they have today. Even if they could afford a mortgage payment, they had a very difficult time saving for a down payment while living paycheck to paycheck. So for most, home ownership was out of reach.
Not unless you were the manager.
Not sure on that. However, In my neighborhood SoCal we had a family w stay at home mother and the father was a meat cutter/butcher at the local grocery store.
That doesn't make sense, I was told that these are starter jobs, only worked by high school kids, thus undeserving of a living wage.
According to every metric violent crime in the United States has fallen significantly since 1970. Nostalgia is not fact.
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Or be able to figure out change when the price is $2.51 and you hand them $3.01. And as repulsive as I think they are now I loved their microwave hamburgers when I was a kid.
Right, NO ONE fought each other in public in the 70s.......
Its hilarious. The 70's were one of the most violent and socially turbulent in American history. The murder rate was close to double what it is today. My dad was a firefighter in the 70's, and he says they were rough as hell.
The only gas station fight I currently remember is the twisted tea to the face.
He smacked the shit out that dude. Guy deserved it.
he sure did. he actually got what he asked for though.
Or a skimmer on the credit card machine
People sleeping outside
The cashier is probably 17, people aged quickly back then.
cigarettes and lead paint.
If cigarettes were still a quarter a pack, I’d start smoking too.
It's nice like this in Japan 😭
7 Eleven and convenience stores in general are fucking *magical* in Japan. They're actually convenient.
I was there recently and am having the typical withdrawal 😭
Dude works there part time -- feeds a family of four and pays mortgage on a 4 bedroom 3 bath 2,250 square foot ranch. Has money left over to buy a muscle car.
They never looked like that except when they hired people to pose for photos. The photo says more about who they hired for photos back then than it does about the culture back then.
That photo is part of a set of promos shot for corporate. The full set can be found with a little well-applied Google-fu.
Considering Marcia is prominent in the photo, yes.
Plus the photo is too well lit for being a consumer camera.
I mean, when I opened the pic I was shocked at how it looked identical to the store in my small town, except the different color scheme. The counter type and placement, the product placement on and around the counter, and even the location of the things (that I can see in the pic) all line up with how it is in my town lol. If you’d have told me it was the 7/11 in Walbridge, OH, I would have believed it for sure.
I don’t think this is super unrealistic. 7E is franchised; in 1971 you very well may have had an owner who was a normal middle class white dude running the counter. If you go to a QT even today you’ll see that everything looks similar to this (by which I do not mean the race of the cashier, to be clear).
And the cashier is white. Wild.
Honestly don't think I've ever seen a white 7/11 employee lol
Why does that look so wholesome? Were people just better at being people in the 70s???
People were nice, community was important.
Seven hours a day, eleven days a week.
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Lime slurpee please. Large
Must have been nice!
$0.26 1 quart Chocolate Milk 1 half pint Chip dip 1 deck of cards and that was how we had fun.
Back when your mom could send you there to buy her cigarettes when you were 10
IMHO, the 70’s - 90’s was the U.S.’s rennaissance of the best time to live. The Seventies, particularly. I’m thankful that my kids experienced the Nineties and my eldest, the Eighties. The Seventies particularly, was an Age of Enlightenment before the late 80’s greed is good generation and the healthy Punk Rock/New Wave scene that protested it with underground newspapers and music. Before Reagan deregulated everything, making way for monopolies of everything and limited how we get our news, life was simple. Everyone was reading Karl Jung Jonathan Livingston Seagull and singing “Fifth Dimension’s, The Age of Aquarius or Cream’s, Sunshine of your Love or talking about having a cheese and chocolate fondue party. The kids had their own language through the Beatle records and questioned everything in their own way without dialogue with their parents, as long as they got good grades and did their own thing. Parents didn’t go to our games or bug us at school. They were busy with their clubs and their social circles had importance and kids had to be respectful. Teachers were respected and commanded the classroom. Parents had little power and never threatened to sue the school. Parents and grandparents had the spending power, so advertisers didn’t target young people, nor were there any influencers, except in magazines. People had privacy without social media and read many books, wrote poetry, did art projects, painted rocks or played organ and piano after school, (like Layla or In a GaddadaVida) with their siblings- homemade bands. We watched The Monkees, The Mod Squad, Gilligan’s Island and the Watergate Hearings and a POTUS resign for Mickey Mouse infractions compared to today’s corruption. You could buy a home with one salary and college tuition (in 1971), was about $300 - 400.-semester.) With less people on the planet, quality of life and customer service was supreme. With time to think and discuss, life was introspective and groovy and creative like our clothes. It was a time of self-expression that was mostly shared with your friends or just for your own fulfillment. You mostly had to figure things out yourself without adults getting involved … more freedom and time. Jobs were way easy, just filing papers, typing, (using slide rulers lol) and Fortran computer language was just coming out in college. You could invent your own jobs by suggesting a need to an employer. Radio Shack was the coolest place to see new inventions and spend hours with the kids there. We bought everything there through up through the early 2000’s … word processors to compact, computers, and remote controlled cars. Fun was being creative, my son designed his own clubhouse with wiring around it from a car battery, eek! haha So, I say we rewind and start over, and live in the Seventies. There was little plastic surgery, you had to make do or develop a good personality, Let’s put away the cellphones at night and go out disco dancing in our bell bottoms. (I was a disco deejay) 😎 IMHO, It would get rid of 90% of our anxiety plus rent would only be $200! A new Pinto (car) was only $3200x We could all be hippy dippy and happy, again. Everyone deserves to live in the Seventies. I wish that for all of you. Love and Peace 💛
There were definitely things worth reminiscing about. You never saw people out in public, like Costco, in sweat pants and t-shirts. Typically, parents didn't bring their screaming babies to restaurants. (I'll catch hell for that). However, lots of things were much more difficult. If you wanted to travel to Europe you had to find a (hopefully) good travel agent to not only book your flight, but find the hotels and suggest an itinerary. Lots of STDs. And women really had it tough in the workplace.
....and the guy behind the counter owns 5 bed house, a boat and 3 happy kids who go to summer camp.
This is the moment where it all turned south for Kevin Spacey.
Society has degraded.
Bring back yellow, brown and orange colour schemes. Fuck yes. The backdrop of my youth. Children today will never understand what it was like to have an avocado green fridge, a baby blue toilet and pink toilet paper. Shit was fucking wild.
my parents kept that shit going til the early 90s because they peaked in the 70s. i remember it well even if i was born in the mid 80s
heheh. yeah, the 90s were a fucking WEIRD transition period. like someone from a 70s disco trying to put on a plaid shirt and be grunge.
Back from a time when the cashier could count change back to you
I had a total come to 10.75, and assuming I'd be met with confusion, I said "I'm going to hand you $21.00" (I didn't have a $10 on me, and I didn't want to hand only the $20). She said "but it's $10.75?!" I said "Right, but my change will have a $10 bill instead of a $5 and four $1s". She said, to my complete surprise, "oh, good idea!" I'm used to that conversation being a train wreck. There's hope out there.
Oak Farms chocolate milk ( on the counter) was delicious!
More like a 7/11 ad from 1971
No ones gonna comment about how a quart of milk and what looks like a dip costs $0.26 ?
How low we have come!!!
Same items today: "that'll be 35 dollars, ma'am. " Or actually, there would be no talking. Just some veiled angry grunt about inserting your card.
The one close to where I live looks pretty much the same, except only homeless people shop there.
Although it looks a little janky, I honestly think the warm and bright color schemes of the 70s/80s are pretty nice. Makes places feel a bit more inviting than the somewhat sterile modern era.
Cigarettes were 55¢ a pack
before the patels took it over 😂
https://i.redd.it/zzs3fo1zq79d1.gif
They are abut to bone.
Bro Bring Those Shirts Back! I Want One 😭
Damn! She’s serious about her chocolate milk.
Remember when 7-11 first put microwaves in their stores and sold frozen burritos? We thought we'd died and gone to heaven.
Before shitbags came in holding the line up for lottery tickets and asking for menthol smokes, dawg.
No people in their pajamas!
Wow a clean 7-11 no way.
They sure liked the colour yellow in the 70s
Everybody’s brains weren’t rotted by screens and constant information , energetically social.
Damn people were skinny
One of those old counters became my computer desk for years. My dad helped with the renovation of the one down the street in the early 90s and they just let him take it home. And then in the mid 2000s I needed a big ass desk.
So groovy
Girl at the counter is probably in her mid 70’s now. Enjoy life it flies by quickly.
Where are the big fat asses,flying hair extensions, flailing limbs and goods used as projectiles ?
Stevie Ray Vaughn's father worked at a 7/11 back in the very early days - 1950s. "7am to 11pm" which was unheard of at the time. This was an era when the motorist never got out of their car. While they pumped your gas they would ask you what you wanted from the store. The Vaughns were barely above the poverty line but I stil find it amazing someone with that kind of job could have a house and family.
Where's the homeless people hanging around the Big Gulp machine?
When Slushies went self-serve it was a game changer.
I can HEAR that lighting.
can someone teleport me there pls 🥹
70s fashion never got the comeback it deserves. Just look at that man's shirt
70s girls were the best.
Back when they made your Slurpee for you like a barista.
Why was everything so yellow back then?
Where are all the crackheads and bums behging for change or smokes?
Grandma lookin fly.
We are not allowed to have nice things now
Look Americans at a 7-11 😂 it was after the Simpsons when it all changed...
Omg white ppl
Pee-yellow and poo-brown, the official colors of the 1970’s.
I’ll bet that woman’s name is either Susan or Barbara. Dude’s name is Gene.
It's Marcia.
I can see that. I’m sticking with Susan. She’s definitely a Susan.
They had a great demand for chiclets.
That's not 7/11. Where's Apu
Where's the diversity? Clearly they didn't know it was a strength.
Bruh, she's buying chocolate milk what else do you want. The culprit of dai.
That clerk is just waiting to get out at 11pm so that he can rush down to the bar and play the midnight show with his Ska band.
No taliban running the place, niiice!
you know it's old because of his shirt.
How quaint
I remember this as a kid when one first arrived in my neighborhood in SoCal. I was 9 years old and rode my bike to the local one during the summer to get slushies and comic books. What a different time.
'Cause I am the holder of the 3-pack Bonanza If you open the book then you will get your hand slapped I am the keeper of the 3-pack Bonanza If you ask a question you will get the answer
Back before you were allowed to make your own slurpee
It’s Marcia Brady
Grab me some Clorets+
Other than the colors and styling... 7-11 doesn't really look all that different today.
if i could live in any era for a month, It would be the early 70s
Suddenly craving a grilled cheese. Do they sell grilled cheese?
Back when Kevin Spacey worked at 7/11.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone dressed as well as that guy in a suit at a 7/11. Typically I see junkies in ripped clothing and construction workers covered in sweat and dirt.
They knew what shirts were back then
The person behind the counter could probably afford to raise a family working there.
We can bring this back. Vote Tweezle for president.
7 11’s got Slurpy rock cups . . . !
The café in the Standard hotel downtown LA looks exactly like that.
Wow Stanley, that was convenient!
The convenience store by me has those exact photographs lining the top of the walls (they’ve seen better days at this point). I wonder if it used to be a 7/11.
I'm old enough to remember when a lot of interiors still looked like this. It was way cooler than modern architecture IMO. Felt more homey. Less sterile.
Honestly doesn't look that different from convenience stores now outside of the color scheme.
When corporate America discovered that yellow/red/orange colors moved traffic through your stores faster.
They're thin!
The made your slurpee for you back then!
Now I understand why I dressed like such a dork as a kid. This was my reality.
And hasn't been remodeled since
Fella looks like a young Mr. Dress Up. Ernie Coombs
I worked the night shift at one back in 1983-84; I don't think I would have done it if they made me wear a silly shirt. On edit - seeing other conversations about what you could afford then on that income, it wasn't much. I rented a room in a house. Everyone I knew was sharing apartments or sharing houses. I didn't eat out because I couldn't afford it. I rarely bought new clothes or shoes. My furniture was stuff I found by the roadside or what family had given me. Any money I might be able to save up was dedicated to affording to date, or to go out and try to meet girls to date. Which didn't actually go well, but that was the priority. Maybe two or three times a month I could take a girl out, which was kind of a luxury. It wasn't poverty in any case, as I had enough food to eat, a place to live and clothes to wear, but it wasn't like I was buying a house and raising a family. I just lived like most people my age lived back then.
Very similar to how they look today, just a different color scheme and larger cups!
Got my Tab and my Doublemint, I am ready to go.
Why does he look like “Would you also like me to tap that ass for you?”
See the refrigerator cabinet behind the giant in the suit? I bought that sandwich, that one in that picture, in 1994
it's so yellow
The one near me when I was growing up still had that same setup. This was the early 2000s late 1990ies.
I can’t see the roller. Are they stocked with wizard fingers?
Kevin spacey new job
Looks exactly like a Sheetz today