I helped a friend for a couple of summers for 2-3 weeks when his family went on vacation. I delivered Newsday in Far Rockaway Queens, had to use his too big for me bike as it had a basket. I earned decent money but did hate collection day.
On Tuesday, September 7, 2021 at 1:10:57 AM UTC-4 rcn...@hotmail.com wrote: > I had a paper route from I think 1987 until 1993 in junior high and high > school. It was good money though I had to buy the papers and then go > collect which was always interesting! > > Ryan > > 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/d1f96a76-4cb2-45b7-9eea-018c6d6cc128n%40googlegroups.com.
