This is mostly lifted from when I mentioned it on the "What made you a bikey" thread:
My first job (like most boys then) was delivering newspapers on a Schwinn. Little kids at 4am wobbling down the street with huge heavy bags on the handlebars - crashing regularly, especially with Sunday papers - is unimaginable now, but we did it! I was 11, I delivered the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA. My trick was I was very good at sailing the paper between the plants and right onto the porch while pedaling by. Joe Bernard On Monday, September 6, 2021 at 9:11:33 AM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: > Dave Moulton has an interesting little post on his blog today about > the disappearance of the paper boy. I don't recall ever having seen > one except (always!) in movies, but then we lived when I was a boy in > the US in what was still a semi rural area, and the rest of the time > overseas. All the newspaper deliverers I've seen have been middle aged > people in cars. > > http://davesbikeblog.squarespace.com/blog/2021/9/6/the-newspaper-boy.html > > I do recall working followup for the 1990 census on a bike! (I did > similar work for the 1980 census in my car in a very rural part of NW > Georgia; now that was interesting -- like Deliverance except that the > people were very nice, even though I was -- to them -- a Yankee > Oriental who was asking way too many personal questions.) > > > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/22dc2681-02f2-4c01-abb5-c067a3e2f2e4n%40googlegroups.com.
