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Post by sawmilljim on Mar 27, 2016 0:52:47 GMT
Back years ago 50 to be exact some of of us boys would get in need of gas money or just a little money in our pocket . Those days I think our pocket must've had a hole in it because money just didn't stay in them long . In those days there was only one way to get money WORK. So once me and a buddy got desperate enough for money we would hit his dad up for a job.
His dad had a used car lot and body shop ,so my buddy would talk his dad Fred into letting us sand cars to paint them .Those day we might of got say $15.00 each for sanding one of those big old cars . We would get really into it and sand like crazy for hours at a time mostly hand sanding that old lacquer paint . Well when we got done it was inspection time before Fred would fork over that much cash . Fred would stroll over take a walk around and say looking good boys ,you just need to start over and do it again . We would gripe and fuss but no luck till we did it again.
Today I was in my shop sanding like all get out on my old F250 ,at least I have air sanders . I stopped took a stroll around it ,looking it over really close and I heard Fred say start over . Fred has long since gone on but I think he is still right .So back to sanding I will go .
We were fourteen years old back then and yes we had our own cars chased girls and may of found a beer or two. Boy those were the days . My how times have changed .
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Post by paisley on Mar 27, 2016 1:14:54 GMT
Jim, seems you, unlike the boys on our road ....you forgot to invite the girls the promise of Boones farm wine.
I sanded three cars one summer with the neighborhood boys.
Eight tracks playing, the three girls with the five boys in the same grades worked on this cars.. fourteen to fifteen dreaming of sixteen and licenses.
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Post by farmrbrown on Mar 27, 2016 2:18:24 GMT
Boone's Farm.........now THAT brought back some memories!
Strawberry Hill, or Apple?
LOL
Jim's post reminded me of my first job, working on a farm.
$20 a day, for a long, hard, hot day's work during the summer.
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Post by paisley on Mar 27, 2016 2:35:49 GMT
Strawberry hill and country quencher
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Mar 27, 2016 3:04:48 GMT
I'd just turned 15 when I got a part time job at the Skelly station a block from our house. I'd open the station at 5am, take phone calls from people who ran their batteries down trying to start their cars, and when I had a list of 10 I'd jump in the wrecker and start the rounds. Winter in Minnesota was hard on batteries, and in those days manual chokes was the norm. I'd jump out of the wrecker, grab one of the freshly charged batteries, jumper cables, and a can of starter fluid (ether). I could usually be back at the station in time to head to school. After school, I'd run my paper route, then back to the gas station until 7:30pm. Made a whole $1/hr, good money for a kid in those days.
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Post by sawmilljim on Mar 27, 2016 3:48:16 GMT
Jim, seems you, unlike the boys on our road ....you forgot to invite the girls the promise of Boones farm wine. I sanded three cars one summer with the neighborhood boys. Eight tracks playing, the three girls with the five boys in the same grades worked on this cars.. fourteen to fifteen dreaming of sixteen and licenses. Drivers license what were those for ? Yep Tom those were the days parents gave you a meal and a roof ,it you wanted more it was root hog or die. I did get a new pair of shoes at the start of every school year though |
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Post by fixitguy on Mar 27, 2016 4:37:36 GMT
Boone's Farm.........now THAT brought back some memories! . I'm younger than a lot of you here, but in 1988-1990 I was in H.S.. My friends and me were all FFA members. Once or twice a month we did something to help the community/homeowner/farmer for a few hours. After we were done with the job, we had pizza or something in the shop in our H.S.. On one job, a farmer slipped a bottle of homemade wine in my buddy's car. We coined the Monday FFA work detail, Monday night cheap wine night. After that night, we always made a point to get some one to buy the cheapest wine, in the biggest jug we could afford. I don't know if the tradition is still going, but I know it was 5+ yrs after we graduated, LOL. Back then a Gallon of mogen david was $3.99, pints? of Boones farm was $1. Today, I think boones is about $2.99~$3.99 |
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Post by paisley on Mar 27, 2016 4:46:39 GMT
Jim, seems you, unlike the boys on our road ....you forgot to invite the girls the promise of Boones farm wine. I sanded three cars one summer with the neighborhood boys. Eight tracks playing, the three girls with the five boys in the same grades worked on this cars.. fourteen to fifteen dreaming of sixteen and licenses. Drivers license what were those for ? Yep Tom those were the days parents gave you a meal and a roof ,it you wanted more it was root hog or die. I did get a new pair of shoes at the start of every school year though New York kinda push those license things. |
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Post by bretf on Mar 31, 2016 18:14:09 GMT
Fred sounds like he was a great guy. That reminds me of a man I worked with, and we always seemed to have too much work to do. He wouldn't allow cutting corners. His statement was "If we don't have enough time to get this done, where will you find time to do it a second time?"
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