When I left the Marine Corps in 1963, I went to work for a local newspaper for $1.50 per hour for a 46 hour week. By the time I got married in 1965, I had become the first person in the place to be paid $2.00 an hour. In 1968 I became General Manager on straight salary for $155 per week.
When we got married in 1965, my wife and I bought a house for $9800, and it was a nice two bedroom house. Payments were $78.00 per month.
It's all relative.
Going back farther, the farm I grew up on was a mile and a half from a grain elevator. The elevator also had a gas pump. I remember the summer I was 12 years old, during the summer wheat harvest I hauled a load of wheat to the elevator with a Model T Ford truck. (We went to work young, then, and to heck with the law). The truck needed gas, so I asked the fellow at the elevator to put 5 gallons in it. He asked me if I wouldn't rather make it an even dollar's worth so he didn't have to give me a dime change.
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