From Picking Cherries to Coal Mining in Missouri
Lawson, Missouri
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Talk about a job you remember.
"But when I was a kid I sold magazines. I knew everybody in town. We had 3,900 people and I knew all of them, even the dogs, because I sold Liberty Magazine and Saturday Evening Journal and one other, I can't think of it right now. I picked cherries for a dime a gallon. I shoveled snow and I was a fry cook at Jack's Shack Restaurant for $2 a week and my meals. Went into coal mining when I was 11 years old, worked one day and got a quarter for that. Told dad I'd never go back in again. I went from the first ... We didn't have kindergarten. I went from first grade through the eighth and then moved to Kansas City."
Asset ID: 7376
Tags: #Work #history #TheWayWeWorked #jobs
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