SEGMENT: CHILDHOOD WORK, CHILDHOOD ACTIVITIES, & TRANSPORTATION
Jack Sarff>UIS Collection S>UIS Collection S, Segment 6
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- CHILDHOOD WORK
- Describes various ways a child could earn money
- CHILDHOOD ACTIVITIES
- Children spent their money in town at the theater and on candy. Town boys who did not work 'leeched' off the country boys.
- TRANSPORTATION
- He wanted a Ford when he first worked (1926). Model T with extras cost $466. A basic model cost just over $300. Said it makes the fifteen-cent-per-day wage seem reasonable.