I remember all but the devil dog, had a paper route and collected 35 cents a week for a 6 day week, 5 cent coke machine with the siver handle, sometimes in the winter the milk would freeze and my mom would let us eat it like ice cream, we also had our bread delivered, you would put a sign in the window if you needed bread. In the summer you would leave the doors and windows open and not worry about strangers breaking in. Mothers didn`t have to work, and everyone watched over everyones kids. In the summer I would work on the farm picking string beans for 35 cents a baskit and it had to weigh 16 pounds, cut grass for $2 a yard, shovel snow for 50 cents a sidewalk. for 50 cents you could see a movie and buy a bag of popcorn and a coke. If someone was out of work, all the neighbors would make sure they had food and money until they got back on their feet, no welfare back than. The people in the villages remind me of the great days as a kid
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