Gas meters inside the home in the 60’s?

I believe you. I’ve never lived in a house with an indoor gas meter, but they are out there. Usually in a utility room, like yours was. It is a little dangerous because of the possibility of leaking gas.

My parents built their home in 1968 and the gas meter is inside the house still today

Yes, I remember that.

No but I remember when the newspaper was delivered and the carrier would open the screen door and throw the paper inside.

I remember that. He would knock and then walk right in yelling “meter reader”. Our meter was in the basement and he would walk through the kitchen to get to the basement door. Our meter was in the basement until the early seventies.

The house I lived in as a child in the 50’s thru 1963 had the gas meter in the basement. The gas man came in to read it.

Not gas, but water for us in my childhood home. As you mentioned, they would knock and come in and read the meter in the mudroom/utility room and leave.
Milkman use to also knock, come in and put the milk in the refrigerator.

Water and hydro are indoor readings from what I remember, gas has always been outside. That said all of them are remote or digital now, nobody comes door-to-door the way they did originally.

The very first home I bought had a gas meter in my basement laundry room.  No one ever came into my house without knocking, though.  Funny thing is that we overpaid for the first two years we lived there because he could never get inside.  We were never home.  Once I had my child, I was a SAHM and he finally came in to check the meter right after she was born.  We had a huge credit.  It lasted about 6 months.  We moved when my daughter was 9 months old.  So good thing we used up the credit before we left there.  

Ours was inside when I was a kid, but the meter reader always knocked. They never came in without being invited.
Ours is a remote read now. By law, they replace the meter every 7 years here. Mine was replaced a few weeks ago. The technician did have to come into the house to check that any pilot lights restarted properly.

100%. I had forgotten about that until you told me. The water meter man did the same thing. Wow.

In the late 40's..early 50's we lived in an apartment house built in 1905. We had a gas meter in the kitchen but you had to put quarters in it to get gas. 1 quarter got you so much gas...then you had to feed the meter to continue. Once a month the landlord would come and empty the meter coin box.

The electric switches were push buttons. Top one on and bottom one off.

Ceilings were 14 feet tall.

The beds folded out of the closets.

How times have changed.

I totally forgot about that, but I do remember when I was a kid that he would knock on the back door (we never locked our doors!) walk in and yell "Meter Man." He'd go right down the steps into the basement and read the meter which was in the laundry room.