My husband got out of the Air Force during the Eisenhower recession and went to Dunwoody Tech in Minneapolis. After he graduated we left Minneapolis and headed to his home state of Georgia and his first job as a welder with the Bluebird Bus Company in Ft. Valley, Ga. I recall he was paid $1.33 an hour!
I remember getting a raise to $1.50 and thinking I’d died and gone to Heaven. I had an apartment, a car and a motorcycle, and an outboard motor for my boat, and some money in the bank.