{"id":1602,"date":"2013-03-12T07:46:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T11:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2013-03-12T20:15:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T00:15:57","slug":"gas-prices-salt-lake-city-september-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/gas-prices-salt-lake-city-september-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas Prices, Salt Lake City September 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Salt Lake City<\/a>; Kodachrome 25 exposed with a Leica M2 and f2.0 50mm Summicron lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cross Country in a Toyota Corolla.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In September 1989, I drove my eight-year old Toyota Corolla<\/a> across the United States to California, following railways most of the distance. Having spent the previous day on the Rio Grande in western Colorado, I had been pushing west toward Green River, Utah<\/a>, when the car\u2019s alternator failed just after sunset.<\/p>\n

I took a cheap motel, then continued west on battery power. Despite the ailing Toyota, I chanced my arm<\/a>, and used the morning to make photos on Soldier Summit<\/a>. By afternoon, I arrived in Salt Lake City, where I located a mechanic to patch up the Toyota.<\/p>\n

92 Cents A Gallon?<\/strong><\/p>\n

While waiting for repairs to be completed, I exposed this image of gasoline prices. I\u2019ve forgotten what impressed me. Were the prices exceptionally low (as they might seem today) or were they extortionate?<\/p>\n

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Cross Country in a Toyota Corolla. In September 1989, I drove my eight-year old Toyota Corolla across the United States to California, following railways most of the distance. Having spent the previous day on the Rio Grande in western Colorado, I had been pushing west toward Green River, Utah, when the car\u2019s alternator failed just … Continue reading Gas Prices, Salt Lake City September 1989<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[7535,479,483,9,29,482,481,480,476,478,200,477],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-pQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}