Yea, I have four paper routes in 69-71, and some customers paid me with coins for my collection. Four fifteen am f ok r Dayton Journal Herald, then nc after school the Dayton Daily News and then 94 copies of the mega Sunday DDN. Tuesdays and Wednesdays the Shopping News for 300 a penny each. Thursday was the Business Weekly. Dad “made” me share the Shopping News with my two sisters... I was pulling in $32-36 s week in 7-8th grades whileUS Servicemen were dying in Nam for $62 a month.
I had a morning Dayton Journal Herald route in East Dayton, too...and still recall those 4am mornings in my 5th thru 8th grades using “foot power”.
My route was just east of Wayne/Wyoming near Xenia, Fillmore, Pierce Streets.
As a Freshman at Stivers, I got a morning route at Miami Valley Hospital - just a tad warmer on those cold winter mornings. And breakfast with the doctors and nurses in the cafeteria. Nurses........
Later at Co-op, a job at Delco/GM in mail room during my Junior & Senior years.
Seems I’ve worked since I was 9 or 10.