Posted on 04/24/2017 10:18:27 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
I picked cherries and got about $.60 per lug.....If you were fast and good, you could get maybe 8 lugs a day. This was back around 1963 or 64 when I was just 13.....
Shame on them! Minimum wage was $1.25/hrs., back then! I had it worse, though; I babysat, and that only paid 50¢ an hour. I started thinking about what paperboys made, and found one of the most heartwarming articles I’ve read in a long time:
Anyway, Ken told me about Dan's son (who is now 25) who as an industrious teenager, was cutting everybody's grass in the neighborhood. As he got older and entered into college, he was now installing sprinkler systems for everyone in the neighborhood as well his small crew still doing their lawn work.
Now that he's graduated from college, he has a full landscaping company, sprinkler installation and has now advanced to installing roof top solar panels...........And it all started when he decided to make a couple bucks cutting his neighbor's lawns........LOL!
You can tell which kids are never going to go hungry when they grow up, can’t you? I have a nephew who’s been shoveling snow, mowing lawns, working in the school cafeteria, since he was about 8 years old. He works about 80 hours a week, at a regular job, plus runs his own handyman/lawn service.
Shame on them! Minimum wage was $1.25/hrs., back then!
Are you sure about that? I waited tables at college in the mid-sixties and was paid $1.00 per hour. Until they made me cashier and waitress manager. Then I made $1.10 per hour. Paid by ARA Services, forerunner of Aramark, caterers for schools & univs, stadiums, offices, etc.
I got the stats off the internet, but I’m not sure I didn’t make any more than $1 a n hour in 1967.
Dr. Jones degree was apparently not in musicology.....
Leelanau?
Had relatives we’d visit summers that lived near Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes, we’d stuff ourselves on the cherries that grew there.
I waited tables in the mid-’60s. Dunkin’ Donuts on Route 17 in Binghamton, NY. Pay was $.90/hour plus tips. I got great tips! Truckers stopped there, and “I used to be cute”, as Diane Keaton said in “Baby Boom”.
Friends who didn’t wait tables had a higher base wage, but they didn’t get tips.
You did good to get tips! The college waitstaff didn’t get tips, just the dollar-an-hour for heavy dinner trays. Whew.
No, it was outside of Boyne City towards East Jordan. Unfortunately, these were tart cherries, not the sweet ones.......
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