Sweet wife just came in and said she did not know what she was going to find in reading the blog. Said she thought I might say something about selling papers on the corner or something like that.
As a matter of fact I did sell papers on a main corner in Pagedale MO when I was 10 years old . In those days (1945) papers were not delivered to homes. They were sold on street corners by paper boys shouting out the headlines. I remember vivadly standing on the corner shouting out WAR WITH JAPAN ENDS. Cars would stop and the driver would hand out his money and the paper boy would give him his paper. This was probably my first job. I do not remember how much the paper cost or how much I made.
I think my next job was at the corner root beer stand as a car hop. This meant serving customers in their cars. I think I was around 13 when I started this. Only a couple of years let before I entered the real workforce at 40 hr. per week. That was at age 15. I had quit school and lied about my age to get a job at St. Louis Car and Foundry insulating the electrical compartments of street cars.
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Jimeny Christmas!!!!! Did not know ANY OF THAT !!
Very interesting...
I always tell people, that while, yes, Teri followed in your footsteps, career-wise, I was the REAL first, in that you worked in a bowling alley, as did I!
Oh, excuse me, bowling CENTER if we are being PC!!
Yep I was a pinsetter, That was when the oins were set manually in the rack and then you pushed the rack down to release the pins. You then had to sit on the back of the pin box with your feet in the air as the ball came back and knocked the pins down. Pin boys were routinely getting hurt by not getting out of the way.
in previous post oins are really pins
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