Community Chat

[hckynut]

@SoCal Bred 

Wasn't any roller skating car hops around here back in the '50's, or '60's. Kept your tips? Don't know how an owner would how much a car tipped you. If my manager or owner would have tried that?

Working for $.25 an hour, I would have either lied about my tip, or quit. Worked with around a lot of car hops for many years, and never heard that one before.

As you stated to someone: "your post gave me a chuckle", but not for whatever reason you were to whomever you were addressing.

hckynut(john)

[Mary Bailey]

Old Chicago Amusement park. At Arbys for about a minute, then at the amusement park as a Sweeper.

[candyagain]

14, at the Arlington, VA Hecht Co. department store. That summer I worked in the DC Hecht Co......very interesting customers and co-workers there!!

[ALRATIBA]

I'd love to tell you, but we were sworn to secrecy.  No one ever knew I worked there.

      

[SoCal Bred]

@BornToShop ....your post made me chuckle, Thanks for the laugh!

[chessielady]

@hckynut  At 15 I graduated to a car hop job ...lasted a day ! A guy ordered a root beer float. I asked him to roll the window up a bit so I could hook the tray on the window. Well ole graceful me tipped it too far and I dumped in his lap.  So the owners kept me in the kitchen the rest of that summer doing french fries ! It was hot again and greasy. I just couldn't keep my self out of the heat.  Still will not eat french fries some 50+ years later.

[tansy]

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@chickenbutt wrote:

I was 16 or 17, just graduated from HS, and my first job was as a typist for $2.20 an hour.  Big time, eh? 

But, hey, back then it was enough to share a two-bdrm apartment with  my best friend, in Long Beach, and we were living just fine.  It was my first place, too.  I can't help wondering what a nice little apartment like that in So. CA costs these days.  

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Hmmm...We might have gone to school together 😊 

@chickenbutt 

[chickenbutt]

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@tansy wrote:

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@chickenbutt wrote:

I was 16 or 17, just graduated from HS, and my first job was as a typist for $2.20 an hour.  Big time, eh? 

But, hey, back then it was enough to share a two-bdrm apartment with  my best friend, in Long Beach, and we were living just fine.  It was my first place, too.  I can't help wondering what a nice little apartment like that in So. CA costs these days.  

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Hmmm...We might have gone to school together 😊 

@chickenbutt 

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While I imagine that would be very cool, and I think we would be friends, I was born there but actually grew up in N CA.  I went back down there after graduating from HS.

[Goodie2shoes]

@SeaMaiden   @LIndaMJ wrote

in addition to babysitting, I worked as a nurse's aide in a nursing home for $1.40 an hour after school and on weekends when I was 14. 

@LIndaMJ    Another under appreciated, under paid  hard grueling job.  I also worked in a nursing home... I saw things I wish I never had... some things were awful. I was about 18 years old at the time. A learning experience...

I  also worked as  a nurses aid in a nursing home when I was 18. yes it is a underpaid  hard working job.  I don't remember my salary but my mom was  a RN at the same nursing home and that's what got me interested in becoming a nurse .  I followed  my moms footsteps.

[tansy]

Not counting babysitting I worked the a dry cleaners counter on the weekends all through HS.  I enjoyed that job, my boss and most of the customers.