At age 17 I worked in Yellowstone Park in 1968....as a waitress...made 1.50 an hour...and had to pay for room & board, too. Still came home with about $700 for the summer.
Were gratuities allowed?
When there wren’t millions of illegals and people weren’t slaughtering the oncoming generations in the womb, there were always jobs for high school kids to start at minimum wage because the demand cycle was intact.