wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >>
> > > > cshenk wrote:
> > > >
> >>>>>>> The average income for men in 1950 was 90$ a week.
> >>>>>>> https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/p...ages/1950-1959
> > > > > > > >
> >>>>>>> The average cost of newspapers was 5 cents. Subscription was
> >>>>>>> less.
> >>>>> THat >> at most generous is .28 per week thenper customer.
> Thats a >>>>> total BILL >> at most of 42 dollars a week for 150
> people. No way >>>>> they tipped you in >> addition a little over
> the cost of the paper >>>>> per person. >>
> >>>>>>> What you may have made was at top end, 10$ a week. That is
> >>>>>>> very
> >>>>> top end >> though and would involve 1cent per paper with 7 day a
> >>> week >>delivery in >> tips.
> > > > > > > >
> >>>>>>> Reality? 3-5$ tops a week.
> > > > > > >
> >>>>>> Newspapers were a dime and the weekly subscription was 50
> >>>>>> cents. My 40 customer route only grossed $20, and then I had to
> >>>>>> pay for the papers. I would be lucky to get $2 per week. Tips,
> >>>>>> if I got them were like 5 or 10 cents.
> > > > > > >
> >>>>> You're so full of canuck shit there are brown stains on your
> >>>>> pillow from your ears. I started delivering papers in 1955, no
> >>>>> 12 year old would deliver 30 papers seven days a week for $2...
> >>>>> wouldn't cover bicycle maintenence. And I don't believe you
> ever >>>>> delivered papers, no kid delivered papers by walking, not
> even in >>>>> NYC where population density is as dense as dense gets.
> > > > >
> >>>> Try again Sheldon. 2$ a week was good money for a kid then and
> bike >>>> maintenance was at most 1.50 a year back then (likely 1/2
> that but >>>> giving you the benefit of the doubt)
> > > >
> >>> I was 13 in 1958. At the grocery/deli I worked 2 hours a day
> >>> stocking shelves, taking out the trash, mopping the floor. I got
> $5 >>> a week. A couple of years later it was $6.
>
> At 50¢/hr you weren't paid fairly for 1958.


And you dig in deeper. Mimumum wage then in the USA was 1$ but only
applied to large places, not a mom-n-pop store. He was geting paid
reasonable for an after school job at that time.

> I worked for various
> mom n' pop groceries in the early 50s and was paid 75¢/hr.

Yeah, really? You've blown so many blatent lies, no one knows what to
expect, other than you to make stuff up.

> Besides
> stock work and cleaning etc. I made deliveries by bicycle so I also
> collected tips, some tips better than others but I was always tipped,
> on average 25¢ per,

Good lord! No Sheldon. The only way you'd get an extra 25cents on
average is if you flipped over to provide an extra hind benefit.

> The newspaper I delivered was the New York World-Telegram & Sun.
> Weekday stand price was 10¢ and Sunday was 25¢ = 85¢,

The April 18 1955 edition was 5 cents.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/80150068341184205

Thats the one that announced Eienstein died.


The rest of your lies, deleted. Seriously, you need to learn how to
look stuff up.

> I really don't believe many of you worked as a teenager, in fact I
> have my doubts that many of you ever had a job, especially schenk,
> what a phoney.

LOL!

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