When I left the Marine Corps in 1963, I went to work for a local newspaper for $1.50 per hour for a 46 hour week. By the time I got married in 1965, I had become the first person in the place to be paid $2.00 an hour. In 1968 I became General Manager on straight salary for $155 per week.
When we got married in 1965, my wife and I bought a house for $9800, and it was a nice two bedroom house. Payments were $78.00 per month.
It's all relative.
Going back farther, the farm I grew up on was a mile and a half from a grain elevator. The elevator also had a gas pump. I remember the summer I was 12 years old, during the summer wheat harvest I hauled a load of wheat to the elevator with a Model T Ford truck. (We went to work young, then, and to heck with the law). The truck needed gas, so I asked the fellow at the elevator to put 5 gallons in it. He asked me if I wouldn't rather make it an even dollar's worth so he didn't have to give me a dime change.
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Today's Featured Article - Gatherin of the Orange - by Rick Nikolich. In July of 1998 I was talking to fellow Allis Chalmers collector Mike Schilling about the annual "Gathering of The Orange" AC show coming up in August of 1999. He got this wild idea that we should get a convoy of AC tractors and drive them from Charlotte, Michigan 105 miles to LaGrange, Indiana.
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