Seniors

Bob Wallace

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8. Yep...

Wed Dec 21, 2011, 03:22 PM

Dec 2011

1958, when I was 14 and started making more than "a dollar a week" working in the family hardware.

I had been working Saturdays and school holidays since I was 7 but the little bit I got paid was just wrapped into my father's taxes. At 14 I started working afternoons as well and started earning about a dollar an hour.

That was massive money in those days for someone my age. All of my friends worked on their family farms but didn't get a wage, just money from selling calves they raised, whatever.

I carried the card daily until a year or so ago. The brochure, well, I'm not one for reading user manuals....

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Do you still have your first Social Security card and the brochure that came with it? [View all] JDPriestly Dec 2011 OP

Yes I have it. Graybeard Dec 2011 #1

Mine is dated just a couple of years after yours. JDPriestly Dec 2011 #7

Yikes - I don't think I even have my current card let alone my first one! Peregrine Took Dec 2011 #2

Yes, from about 1962, first job. bemildred Dec 2011 #3

Still have original card........ Scottybeamer70 Dec 2011 #4

Oh good grief, that would have been in 1944.. Zoigal Dec 2011 #5

Actually, my mom held onto it for me. It was stuck in a box along with other mementos JDPriestly Dec 2011 #6

Yep... Bob Wallace Dec 2011 #8

So long ago. We worked young back then. JDPriestly Jan 2012 #10

Yes, I still have my original card housewolf Jan 2012 #9