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.
