lonebear
13 posts
Mar 31, 2011
8:35 PM
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My first real job was "gas jockey" at the Sunoco Station in the middle of Vandalia. I worked full time during the summer. Got paid $1 an hour for 40 hrs. I spent my entire, very FIRST check on a bicycle for my little brother, from Western Auto. It was for his birthday. Oh, I forgot, I was 13, and had just graduated Junior High (8th grade).
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jfox68
14 posts
Apr 01, 2011
4:46 AM
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Lonebear, I too was a gas jockey in Vandalia. It was at Estill's Sohio on the southeast corner of 40 and 75. My best friend worked at the Pure station next to the carryout. I remember that gas was about 25 cents a gallon.
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lonebear
14 posts
Apr 02, 2011
9:24 PM
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Yeah jfox68, cheapest I ever bought was 22.9 cents a gallon. I remember filling up those big ole Caddy's with the 30 gallon tanks for less than $8!
My next job I had was at the Aullwood Children's Farm out on Frederick, part time after school, I was in charge of the animals, liked it a lot better.
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cjguitar
2 posts
Apr 04, 2011
7:55 AM
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My first real job was at S.S. Kresge Co. variety store downtown Dayton. Started working there when I was 16, took bus downtown to work and worked part-time while I went to school full time. I really enjoyed working in the toy department during christmas and also worked in the candy department. Back then downtown Dayton was thriving. Really miss that and the variety stores also.
Last Edited by on Apr 04, 2011 7:57 AM
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clamper
35 posts
Apr 04, 2011
8:45 AM
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At the car wash on Wilmington just south of Dorothy Lane
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marty52
6 posts
Apr 08, 2011
9:48 PM
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omg....arbys...didn't last long :-)
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driver62
367 posts
Apr 09, 2011
7:57 AM
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Two days after graduating from high school, I went to work in a factory in Eaton. I think the pay was $1.80 per hour. I didn't like it much so five monthe later I joined the USAF. This was in 1959.
Last Edited by on Apr 09, 2011 7:58 AM
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PaulH
1 post
Apr 16, 2011
9:33 PM
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North Star Drive-In snack bar my sophmore summer while in High School. After that Ihung dry wall for Henson's the next summer and for a short time after graduation. That summer I worked at Ben's Battery and Generator, Master Vibrator and finallry thet NCR foundry until I went into the Air Force summer 66.
Sorry if that was too much info. I am just getting used to this. This was my first post.
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JBlair
32 posts
Apr 18, 2011
12:55 PM
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Right after graduating from high school in 1963, I went to work as a waitress at the Frisch's on Woodman just north of Patterson Road. I made .65 per hour and tips averaged $5.00 a day. I had to take the bus and transfer downtown for another and the whole thing was quite an education. Did that for about 2 months before heading out to California for the first time and found out how cool I'm not.
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delcodude
139 posts
Apr 18, 2011
3:59 PM
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JBlair:
That Frisch's stopped being affiliated with the Big Boy 'company store' four or five years ago, before finally selling out. I can't remember the name it changed to, (Marx(?) or something similar) but they were not allowed to use Frisch's sauce on 'their' Big Boys. Also, until they closed they purchased their ground beef from East Dayton Meats at Smithville and RT35. I knew a waitress that worked the drive-thru window.
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DonnaG
3 posts
Jul 05, 2011
6:57 PM
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First paycheck job I had was Dairy Queen in Trotwood :) It isn't even there anymore.
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Doug68
141 posts
Jul 06, 2011
7:07 AM
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I picked up bottles (bottleboy) at the Thunderbowl in Englewood when I was 13 years old. Received free bowling at first instead of being paid, then worked myself ALL the way up to $1.10 per hour before long. (I think it was cheaper to pay me rather than let me bowl for free).
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thomas6
36 posts
Jul 16, 2011
11:37 AM
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my first paycheck job was Everybody's Bookstore at fifth and main,on fifth,delivering office supply all over downtown,when you had to go downtown to shop.
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Riverdale Ghost
211 posts
Jul 17, 2011
5:41 PM
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Telephone soliciting. Navy mothers' club (I think). Unknown office somewhere downtown as I recall, like maybe in the Arcade. The job was found by a friend of mine and she wanted someone she knew in the office with her. Fifty cents an hour. 1952. Lasted the summer.
When I ran across a name I recognized on the calling list, I gave a fake name. Don't even remember what it was now, but it was a nice name.
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 Honest Communications Is The Foundation of Civilizations.
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carolehk
1 post
Jul 29, 2011
10:01 AM
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Working for NCR in Branch Accounting in 1960 was my 1st real job. I suppose I was put there because I failed "manual dexterity" testing (!). My boss was William Hahn, and he had a brass spittoon beneath his desk (again !). He was such a nice man, so "old school"..wore suspenders. It was the start of the computer age, and the summer I worked there (5th or 7th floor, I believe) it was so hot, and when they built a glassed in area for the new (and huge) computers, they air conditioned the room. So while the rest of ourselves had fans to cool us, the girls selected for that area wore sweaters and waved at us!
I made so many friends within those few months..wish I still had contact with them. We had an hour for lunch, ran down thru the tunnels to get lunch and then back up to the Auditorium for the free movies. They had a post office and a mini-hospital there as well. My father and uncle both worked there and were both long time employees, later retiring from NCR. I am so proud that I was a (very small) part of it, and was saddened to hear that NCR left Dayton. It was a very special time in my life.
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Jack S.
1 post
Jul 29, 2011
3:57 PM
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First job was working at M&M Tool 1952,worked 21 years there. Graduated from Stivers High School in 1953, My Grandmother owned Lafferty's Cafe on South Main Street Just a block north of Rogers Pontric.
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trolleyfan
18 posts
Aug 08, 2011
6:42 PM
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I worked for Van Dyne & Crotty off Linden Ave taking shop rags out of the washers and putting them in the dryers. That room must have stayed at about 95 degrees. Made $1.10 an hour. Next summer started playing Keyboard ( Wurlitzer Electronic Piano with Marv & Betty & The Triumps. I made more money in a week than I made all summer at Van Dyne Crotty, and a heck of a lot more fun.
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wabash73
11 posts
Aug 08, 2011
7:23 PM
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summer of 69 after 8th grade before high school. The neighborhood youth corp put me to work at Jefferson elem. for 40 hrs a week at $1.05 an hour. Got paid every two weeks.Big Money!!!!
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dave5838
3 posts
Aug 13, 2011
9:40 AM
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Working at local Bakos grocery store on weekends when I was 14. It was located on Superior Ave.
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hunt69
295 posts
Aug 13, 2011
11:17 AM
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dave5838... Did the store have a glass counter with a pretty large display of "penny candy?" A lady owned it
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theWiz
7 posts
Sep 12, 2012
12:00 AM
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in 1965-worked at Woodman Lanes on weekends. didn't last long as it severely cut into my dating time with my girlfriend!!!
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luv my dayton
142 posts
Sep 15, 2012
1:20 PM
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My first real job was as a hairdresser back in early 60's. Worked at a salon in Airway Shopping Center. Short lived. Then went to work at NCR as an electronics inspector. Made great money for that time.
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wrgood
1 post
Sep 18, 2012
9:40 AM
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After my three years delivering the Journal Herald in Riverdale, at 13 years old I worked at the Famous Clothing Co. in Belmont as a stock clerk/janitor. It helped that my father was manager, but he sure didn't cut me any slack. lol
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Calhoun
128 posts
Apr 13, 2013
8:44 PM
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Painted parking lots, working for a good friend of my Dad's. Started at age 13, by time to go to college, had saved most of the money I needed for my first two years and travelled to most every state east of the Mississippi in the process.
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