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PAPERSDuring the mid 1940’s the best way young boys could earn spending money was to become a “paper boy”! At that time there were four newspapers in town, The Royal Oak Tribune, The Detroit News, The Detroit Times, and The Detroit Free Press. The Tribune was a small paper, delivered locally six times a week. I think the cost for one week was fifteen cents. A paper could usually be folded into a triangular shape and sailed from a boy’s bike to the porch, unless the customer requested that it be placed between the doors. That would take extra time, of course, but we had to please the customer or they would call in a complaint. That was not a pleasant thing to try to explain. Usually, on Fridays we collected payments from each of our customers for our weekly deliveries. On Saturdays we would have to pay the Tribune for the number of papers we had sold during the week. What we had left over was our pay. This was like running your own business and was a good learning experience for all of us........read more! If you would like to submit a column about Royal Oak history, or growing up in Royal Oak please contact Muriel by phone at 248.542.7449 or via email at mversagi@versagivoice.com. |
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