Bound for Glory (1976)
Delos V. Smith Jr.: Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner
Quotes
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[first lines]
Hank - Man in Gas Station : ['California Water Tastes Like Cherry Wine' plays in the background'] What's the matter?
Carl - Man in Gas Station : Hey, Wood.
Woody Guthrie : Yeah.
Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner : Cherry wine.
Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner : [Jenkins turns off the record player] Goddamit, Woody. I got half a notion to pull up stakes and hit the road for California.
Carl - Man in Gas Station : I been thinking about down the Gulf of Mexico... or the Rio Grande valley. Just somewheres I can grow some fruit, peaches. Them Indian blood peaches with that red meat.
Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner : Shit fire, Carl! Why down there? In California you just plop a seed into the ground, you find a sprout the very next day.
Hank - Man in Gas Station : Well, it seems I sure gotta do something. I just don't know what's going to happen to everybody around here.
Woody Guthrie : You folks... sure are depressing.
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Collister - Gas Station Customer : You boys got any news?
Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner : Ain't nothin' interesting to tell about, except people are moving out of these parts.
Collister - Gas Station Customer : My name's Collister, and I've been running all over this here state to them fortune tellers; ain't one of them told me a damn thing. Someone tell me something worth listening to, and I'll pay 'em a dollar, good American money.
Woody Guthrie : It's been pretty dusty around here.
Collister - Gas Station Customer : That ain't worth nothing,
Carl - Man in Gas Station : Hell, Woody, that ain't worth nothing, for sure.
Woody Guthrie : Well... I ain't much for fortune-telling. You're a inside man, got a big job with the oil refinery.
Collister - Gas Station Customer : How'd you know that?
Woody Guthrie : Well... ain't nobody else got money to waste on fortune tellers, sody pop.
[Jenkins chuckles]
Collister - Gas Station Customer : Keep going,
Woody Guthrie : Well, them two creases in between your eyebrows... tell me... you're a man who probably takes his work serious, always looking for a way to do things better.
Collister - Gas Station Customer : You got 50 cents.
[Hank whistles]
Collister - Gas Station Customer : Keep talking,
Woody Guthrie : Oh, you probably got some kinda idea, an invention of some kind, big company wants to buy you out.
Collister - Gas Station Customer : You got a paper dollar if you can tell me when to do it.
Woody Guthrie : [Woody chuckles] Hell, I ain't no mind reader.
Collister - Gas Station Customer : [Woody starts playing his guitar] Hmm. You're the only one I ever met that didn't claim to know everything in the whole world. What's your name?
Woody Guthrie : Woody. Woody Guthrie.
Collister - Gas Station Customer : Well Guthrie, I'll spread the word. Worth every penny.
[Collister puts the money inside Woody's guitar]
Woody Guthrie : Thank you kindly.
Collister - Gas Station Customer : [to Jenkins] There you are, Pop, and there's a nickel for the Coke, dollar for the gas.
