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When I was kid I considered taking a job as a paperboy but I quickly concluded it took too much time and effort for the money. I made much more supplying weapons to the local thugs. I did not tell my step father who considered me his slave. I was not a very good slave after I got big enough to fight back.
In the 40s, we lived 2 miles out of town in the country. Our large ranch was at the end of the road. There were quite a few homes, between our home and town. Our paper box at the end of our drive was at least 1/4th of a mile from the next closest house.
We had a papergirl, and we got the evening edition of the paper (they had two one morning and one evening. Actually two different papers with two different names put out by the same office). She was 2 years older than I and her sister who was my age, and in my classes in school. When she went to high school, she got a job as our paper girl. She was in my opinion the nicest and most beautiful girl in town. I would often wait at the box for her to deliver the paper as I got a few minutes to visit with her as she took a brief rest before heading back to her home.
I stayed with my aunt in RI and there was an icee man who sold this amazing lemon ice stuff! WOW that was good. And my (boy) cousin had a paper route. I talked my way into going with him and promptly had to go potty. He told me how to get home - no clue. Got lost.
In case you missed it there have been two styles of bikes almost since the things were invented. Those with the bar going across and those without. The latter was meant for females to accommodate the long skirts worn at that time.
In the Victorian era (when cycling took off for both sexes) it was deemed improper for women to wear pants. Even various bloomers or whatever were considered suspect (though available and the name came from a woman named Bloomer), so proper ladies often wore skirts when bike riding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloome...s_and_bicycles
Never the less yes, females wore and still do wear skirts when bike riding. Some then and now consider it immodest females both young and whatever took to the freedom of bike riding and there was no going back.
I was a papergirl for two years in the mid 80s. The majority of paper delivery was yes, done by boys.
I remember having to go straight home from school to roll papers, load them on my bike, and have them delivered by 5 pm. My town, at the time, had no Sunday edition but I had to be up at the crack of dawn every Saturday morning to get the Saturday paper delivery done.
This job of mine meant that my parents could not go out of town unless I found a substitute for myself...which was an ordeal, but it taught me responsibility and the value of money very early in life.
In case you missed it there have been two styles of bikes almost since the things were invented. Those with the bar going across and those without. The latter was meant for females to accommodate the long skirts worn at that time.
In the Victorian era (when cycling took off for both sexes) it was deemed improper for women to wear pants. Even various bloomers or whatever were considered suspect (though available and the name came from a woman named Bloomer), so proper ladies often wore skirts when bike riding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloome...s_and_bicycles
Never the less yes, females wore and still do wear skirts when bike riding. Some then and now consider it immodest females both young and whatever took to the freedom of bike riding and there was no going back.
Back when Paperboys were still a thing why was it far more common to see boys doing it than girls? Seems like a girl could stand giving out papers or riding a bike delivering them as well as a boy could.
Why was my brother provided with a quarter midget to race and I was expected to just cheer him on? Not that he wasn't a good quarter midget racer—he was—but my overall reflexes are better and faster, even against him.
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