My first job was cleaning the kitchen and mopping the floors at Retlaws Diner on 87th and Vernon in Chicago. It was 1959, and I was only 11 years old. I was paid $5 to do the cleanup every Saturday. Took me about 5 hours. I had to wash out all the garbage cans, throw away all the rotten produce and scrape grease off the wall behind the grill. I apparently didn't do a good enough job, because a city health inspector made them hire an adult. But I had saved some of my money, and I used it to buy a newspaper stand in the telephone company building. Sold papers at my stand and between lanes of traffic on Ashland Avenue for several years. When I was old enough to drive, I sold the paper stand, bought a car for fifty bucks, and took to delivering pizzas in the Blackstone and Avalon Park neighborhoods on Chicago's south side. That was good money for a kid. Paul
On Dec 30, 2010, at 2:48 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Christine Aguila > <[email protected]> wrote: >> When I got my 1st job (McDonalds) and minimum wage was $2.10 an hour; I >> felt very rich at 15. The non-computerized cash registers rattled like >> machine guns, and we had to give change without the help of a cash >> register--and we were good at it too. >> Cheers, Christine > > My first real job as a kid was delivery the Toronto Telegram news > paper. The Saturday edition was as thick as a phone book, I forget > what i made(1966)but i also worked at a dish washer, 1966-1969, at a > curling club at a $1.00 and hour. I to felt rich. I quit that job to > work on the ice, 1096-1971, at $1.35 and hour, which was adult minimum > wage back then. > They raised the price of tobacco to $0.50 a tin, so i quit. > > Dave > > Dave >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
