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Show noon. When you got home from school you had your hour or two of play but then at about four-thirty, five o'clock you deliv€red the evening papers. Again, the same system. With either a pushcart if it was big heavy load and otherwise bike, you walked or what have you. By the time I began to take much notice of such things poor father's feet were very, he had bunions, he had corns, he had lots of foot trouble from hiking these five or six blocks every morning and evening, back and forth, up stoops, down apartments. Mother, of course, stayed in the store while all this was gcing on and served the customers. In front of a typical store like that there was a newsstand. And all the papers were spread out on the stand and magazines. People walking to the subway or to the trolleys would pick up the paper, put down the two or three cents which was what papers cost in those days. And maybe take a magazine, stop in for cigarettes, cigars, that sort of thing. One ffiatter that might be of interest. Of course, I was growing up during the depression. I guess by the time it got to be 1929 or sD, let's see, I'd be sixteen or seventeen years old. So I was able to think about some things because I was in high school and I remember asking father how come the depression didn't seem to bother us. At the beginning I knottJ \vhen I was a smaller boy they had trouble meeting the rent. You know, the profits from the newspaper deliveries, cigarettes, and whatever were not very big. By the time the depression 5 |
