I defer to your actual experience. Still, this picture of a Citgo from 1998 show...

		eesmith on Jan 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vin... I defer to your actual experience. Still, this picture of a Citgo from 1998 shows four exterior cameras at a gas station, at each end of both islands. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-citgo-stat... . I'm therefore not willing to accept "No cameras 20-30 years ago" as an unconditionally true statement.

Fair enough I'm sure there were some. But they were not ubiquitous like now I think we can agree.