The not to distant past.

[Skeet 028]

I worked in the Baltimore City Fire Dept...Friendship Airport Crash/Rescue Fire Dept 1968 72 hr workweek...(24 on 24 off) started at 6204...Mid April Pay went to 6780 yr....Figured out to 1.80 an hour...no overtime either. If we worked over we got hour for jour comp time. Everybody did something to make a livibg. I could actually make more shooting pool...hell I made more shooting nuisance pigeons

 

[AJ]

I started working in a Grapefruit/Orange packing house at the age of 14. I made $0.90 an hour as a part time job after school and weekends, this was 1965. In 1969, I joined the Marines. I made $127.80 a month.