>>>sweep the oiled floors<<<
Ooooh I can smell that oiled cedar sawdust we used to sweep over the wooden floors... Good memories!
>>>Never heard of schoolbuses-walked the mile to school and back whatever the weather.<<<
I was just shy of two miles, but was very lucky in that I got to ride a horse to school. Huge dapple gray Percheron mare - I would bring her up next to the barn and climb on the half barn door - swing out and climb on her back. At school I would slide off onto the hitching rail then tie her. Every day she would ‘hide’ behind a small sapling thinking you couldn’t see her and every day she acted like ‘aw shucks, he found me again.’
But that was only for the first grade - we moved after that and I went to a big 4 room school with 2 grades in each room.
Here the 10 cent movies were in another town (kind of a dingy railroad town) about 8 miles away - the Schine Theater had much better movies plus all the extra shows and cartoons so the extra was worth it. (at least we thought so)
My first paying job was in Cuba - got a peseta (20¢) for 4 hours weekdays and 8 hours weekends - taking kids for rides on ponies. You were responsible for grooming and saddling the pony and cleaning its stall too. I had to take a trolley to work 7¢ (you got a free return ride). Worked that for almost a year.
You were certainly a busy girl with your job.
Hubby had several teeth knocked out years ago by an employee carelessly wielding a hammer, and has had several partial plates over the years as the tooth the partial is hooked to deteriorates fairly rapidly. Well now the time has come to remove those remaining teeth and go for dentures. Today he consulted an orthodontist who informed him that removing those nine teeth would cost $1500 dollars. Now, that's inflation!