Sunday, July 14, 2013

THINGS....

"Vintage Ride"
1953 Schwinn parked at Dominick's on Howard Street
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mcl said...

Blogger mcl said...
In 1952 (I was 9 at the time) I was offered a job delivering newspapers in the far Southeastern, Boot heel town of Caruthersville Missouri, on the Mississippi River. In order to get the job I needed a bicycle...so...I borrowed $40.00 from my Dad and bought the same model and green color Schwinn pictured here, only a '52. I got the job and repaid the loan at $2.00wk (my job paid $4.00wk + tips..it was 7 days a week, on Sundays I walked my route pushing a wooden paper cart with iron wheels, delivering to my regular customers, while selling extra copies I carried to those nonroute customers attracted by my on-going, very loud vocal announcement every few minutes of, "Paper, paper...Get your Sunday morning paper!"

Looking back, I've always felt that this was a major milestone in my young life.

July 16, 2013 at 5:40 AM

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