Frank's IGA Finally Installed on Layout.

Spence - I didn't think that I liked the IGA window sign, but your video has changed my mind.  Nice job.

Art

Nice.

Such a shame I model the WW2 era in a very rural place, as this model wouldn't fit there/then at all. I really like this structure as though I never shopped in a store that looked like this until my late 20s, I regularly went to an IGA with my Mom as a kid (though that was in a 70s metal-sided large store building with no windows that would make a very dull looking model).

It looks good, and the sign is fantastic there.  Perfect fit!

Very Nice.

Very nice, Spence; thanks for sharing.

Really nice! Now if you had Lee's Mechanical operation horse ride.....

looks like the store i bagged groceries in in 1955. it was called Dicks Cardinal in La Grange ILL..  i think i made 1.75 a hour after school and on saturdays, got enough money to buy a new (well new to me) car  1949 ford coupe,  long long ago

If you made $1.75 in 1955, you were lucky. The minimum wage that first year was 75 cents. From 1956-60 it was $1.00.

you are probably correct i just remember i think i took home 23--25 a week for three  four days after school and all day saturday.  not much, did get tips sometimes for putting bags into cars.. but we are talking long long ago, i do remember the pay in the Marines  $79.50 a month for a private which i was for 6 months

i do remember my dad telling me that our neighbor next door was buying a house and raising kids on 85 a week takehome pay and going to school under gi bill at night, lot of that going on

I must have been on the wrong side of town. Working at, Spieth's IGA Super Market in my town in 62 and 63, I started out at .55 an hour, and ended up with .95 an hour. When I went in the Army 1965, my starting pay as a Private was 76.00 a month. My first full time job at a steel mill after High School and before the Army, was 1.05 an hour, feeding the furnaces.

like i said i pretty much remember the checks  never saw one that went over 30 bucks most were low 20's  and that was for a lot of work, but as i said i did buy my first car it was a '49 ford for 75 dollars and in 1961 i bought a 1935 ford pickup from a farmer in door county Wisconsin for $40.00 and drove it back to Chicago stopping at about every 20 miles to get waste oil to fill er up again  actually wound up putting that engine in the pickup,,, dual exh, headman headers finned heads,  Mallory dual point ignition,  3 two barreled carbs  pretty hot in those days but never got it finished  but the two 36 inch glass paks did sound good

am pretty sure about the Marine corps pay  i remember the pay line,,,  got your dollars then the next table was the first sgt and he had a "fund"  then Navy Relief or Red Cross table,  after laundry PX paying the guy you owed a fiver to, you were broke again

Spence , it looks great in that window!!!!!!

Alex