My first apartment was in a more than likely illegal Hippy Habitat
located over Richter's Drug on the West Bank ( the hallways were such a maze
it became much easier for friends to come up the fire escape and enter
through the window). I paid, I believe, $60 a month furnished and with all
utilities paid ( there was a pay phone in the hallway which we all mostly
shared).
I made, again I believe-- memory is hazed by time and maybe some other
things,
$2.80 an hour working full time at the U. This means my rent was 12% of my
gross income and why I was considered rich by most other West Bank denizens
circa 1967. I picked up a room mate anyway and rent became perhaps the
smallest of my expenses.
I know for a fact that no eighteen year old today could even imagine such
a carefree existence. That's too bad. It's good to experience a period of
cheap and foolish living.
Jon Gorder
Loring Park
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