05-12-2024, 03:38 AM
"It reminds me of watching old movies or TV programs where people frequently lived at their parent's home or in boarding houses until they got married and everybody had a personal relationship with the merchants they frequented. "Credit" wasn't as it is recognized today (a commodity), it was established through personal relationships and a handshake was worth something because credit scores would have been considered some horrible dystopian communist future."
Lived this in real life.
When my Grandmother died in 1965 she was running the family plumbing business.
I was 18 and had just graduated from high school. I was working as a 3rd year apprentice plumber at a huge power plant under construction.
I quit my job and took over running the shop. My 1st job I was assigned to was to try to collect on some of the delinquent accounts.
Most of them started playing according to their original payment plan. Sometimes it was $4.00 or $5.00 per week.
The building was a 2 story brick building. The plumbing shop was on one side and my Uncle's Jewelry shop was on the other.
My Uncle and his family lived upstairs and the other side was a rental apartment. The view out the back windows was a steel mill.
Google Mingo Junction Ohio. The movie " The Deer Hunter " was filmed there.
Lived this in real life.
When my Grandmother died in 1965 she was running the family plumbing business.
I was 18 and had just graduated from high school. I was working as a 3rd year apprentice plumber at a huge power plant under construction.
I quit my job and took over running the shop. My 1st job I was assigned to was to try to collect on some of the delinquent accounts.
Most of them started playing according to their original payment plan. Sometimes it was $4.00 or $5.00 per week.
The building was a 2 story brick building. The plumbing shop was on one side and my Uncle's Jewelry shop was on the other.
My Uncle and his family lived upstairs and the other side was a rental apartment. The view out the back windows was a steel mill.
Google Mingo Junction Ohio. The movie " The Deer Hunter " was filmed there.