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The New Normal
 
Main Street in Mesa and Central Ave in Phoenix both only a couple miles long, but they were some great miles while it lasted. Both shut down by the fun nazis.
When I was younger, we cruised in a small town, Meadville, PA. They were constantly enforcing more and more rules to discourage cruising. I never understood why. From a law enforcement perspective and safety perspective, cruising is a win. You drive through the town at about 25mph or less to check out the girls and cars, the police know where everyone is so it's easy to patrol. If we couldn't cruise, we were out riding around with a case of beer and the police had to patrol the entire county to try to catch us. Which was safer?
 
Paper route, night time stock boy and lawn cutting. Jobs long gone where a kid could make a buck.
 
lawn cutting still exists. And some small towns still have night time stocking jobs.
My town does have a paper route. If a young one has ambition he or she can find a job. But ambition comes from parents not giving the kid everything.
 
Paper route, night time stock boy and lawn cutting. Jobs long gone where a kid could make a buck.
lawn cutting still exists. And some small towns still have night time stocking jobs.
My town does have a paper route. If a young one has ambition he or she can find a job. But ambition comes from parents not giving the kid everything.
My neighbors parents gave him chores to do for money, a quarter for a pail of acorns raked up, mowing the grass, other things like that. Gave him some money in his pocket, and it taught him to be productive at a young age. He didn't get spoiled, but had something to drive him to work and set goals.
 
The guys in H.S. that had the cool cars were night stock boys in a grocery store.
Probably the best paying job a kid could get back then.
Next was a good size paper route and you could start that job much younger.
 
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