Here are a pair stories of Boston from my friend Charlie Sandler, who was born inward 1932 too grew upwards inward the Depression-era Four Corners department of Dorchester. He too his buddies learned how to endure frugal too overstep too brand a chip of coin on the side.
At historic menses 11, he obtained a chore selling refreshments during the trip the lite fantastic nights at the Greenwood Youth Center. During a pause inward the active dancing, the girls would come upwards over to the refreshment stand upwards too guild Cokes. Before they had finished them, the music would starting fourth dimension upwards 1 time again too they would operate over to the trip the lite fantastic floor. Charlie too his partners inward criminal offence would speedily refill the empty bottles amongst the leftovers, popular the tops dorsum on, too and then sell the "new" bottles during the side past times side break. "Five cents, pure profit!" he gloated 71 years later.
Another action was to selection upwards used cigarette butts from the street too carefully collect the unburned tobacco. Meanwhile, the boys would also uncovering discarded soft potable bottles too cause got them dorsum to the local shop to collect the 2 cent deposit. (Sometimes, too, they'd sneak into the dorsum of the shop too "recycle" unopen to of the bottles that they had returned, collecting unopen to other refund.)
When they had plenty money, 10 cents, they could buy a pack of 100 cigarette papers. Using a rolling machine, they'd hit "new" cigarettes too sell them on the street for 1 penny each.
As Charlie summarized these too other activities, he admitted, "I was non a expert boy." Something changed though, too he afterwards devoted
decades of his life to teaching vocational education. Maybe he figured if he had had a mentor similar himself, he wouldn't cause got been quite hence mischievous. Although I incertitude it.
