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Pinboys also got tips on top of their base pay. The faster they worked the better tips they'd get from bowlers.
One thing I'm surprised that hasn't changed much is corn detasseling.
I did it as a kid in the mid 70's. I think the minimum age was 12 years old. I did it as a supplement to my paper route when I was 12, 13, and 14 years old. They'd load us all up on a school bus and take us out to the fields to detassel.
I still see adds for kids to detassel corn today.
I was going to post something about deodorant inspector or something and it reminded me of this music video
anyone remember this one?
“Left alone with Big Fat Fanny, she was such a naughty nanny, hey big woman, you made a bad boy out of me.”In Europe, until the 17th century, teenage boys were routinely masturbated by their nannies for a good night sleep.
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I had paper routes back in the day. I obviously never got murdered, but I had a couple of memorable on-the-job incidents.This is what put an end to kids delivering newspapers.
"Danny Joe Eberle, 13 years old, disappeared while delivering the Omaha World-Herald newspaper on Sunday, September 18, 1983, in Bellevue, Nebraska.[6] His brother, who also delivered papers, had not seen him, but he did remember being followed by a white man in a tan car on previous days. It was found that Eberle had delivered only three of the 70 newspapers on his route. At the address of his fourth delivery, his bicycle was discovered along with the rest of the newspapers. There appeared to be no sign of a struggle. Joubert would later describe how he had approached Eberle, drawn a knife, and covered the boy's mouth with his hand. He instructed Eberle to follow him to his truck and drove him to a gravel road outside the town."
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John Joubert (serial killer) - Wikipedia
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