I remember working for $1.60/hour.
I recently bought gasoline for $1.65/gallon. It felt like I had traveled back in time.
You were truly privileged to be paid that much. I got 50 cents at the greenhouse, then 85 at the restaurant, until I was able to get a summer factory job for $1.65. When we got overtime, I thought I was rich. Um letās see think that was 1967. Cigs were $3.50 a carton, so two hours pay.
Well, before I had a formal job, I spent many a day doing farm labor for my grandparents for a dollar, and mowed my other grandmotherās lawn for a quarter, with a push reel mower.
My grandparents had a small grape orchard and on every grape vine, there seemed to be a wasp nest. I spent many an afternoon driving a John Deere A model tractor pulling a disk harrow, straw hat keeping me from getting sunburned, an old Jim Beam bottle full of drinking water on the tractor. I made enough money to keep me in .22 bullets and shotshells for hunting.