Vintage work crew photos

**hemmjo** · Jun 6, 2021, 03:03 PM

How old do you figure those kids are? I am guessing 11-12 and up

**IntheGroove** · Jun 6, 2021, 03:06 PM

I would bet some of them fought in WW1...

**Toolmaker51** · Jun 13, 2021, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by IntheGroove

I would bet some of them fought in WW1...

With guesses at 10-12 years old, some even less. marksbug asks which is Smiley Bob, closest might be back row about 1/4 of the row from left.
A few thin-lipped smiles according to eyes, and some say just forlorn, miserable, desperate.

All the same, safe bet the majority served, responding to this,

or this,

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maybe this.

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Conscription began 1917, May 18th.

**marksbug** · Jun 7, 2021, 08:10 AM

I see 1 smile.can you spot smiley bob? I worked on a garbage truck as a kid as well as cutting grass. both sucked, and neither paid what it does now days.( late 60's early 70's)

**hemmjo** · Jun 7, 2021, 10:42 AM

He is happy he made it out of the darkness..

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**mcthistle007** · Jun 20, 2021, 09:18 PM

Yes Sir,So We Would Too! When People Complain About Their Lives Now Hmm!

**the harmonious blacksmith** · Jun 7, 2021, 11:16 PM

Child labor, but many of those boys seem to look happy.

**Hoosiersmoker** · Jun 8, 2021, 09:04 AM

I was raised understanding that if you want something, you have to work for it so when I was 12 and my parents tried to hand-me-down a bike for the third time and I wanted a new one, I spent the summer working for Pioneer de-tasseling corn. 8 hrs a day, 5 days a week for $5 an hour which was a lot of money then! In a week I bought the new bike and then spent a lot of money on cool modifications from the local bike shop which I rode to myself. It had a generator and front and back lights as well as an actual "D" shaped steering wheel which I disassembled to add the hand brakes. Had a custom seat and changed out the derailleur when I started having problems with it.

When trying to overcome the liberal, entitlement-based education system with my kids, I showed them my Social Security statement showing my first work date and told them when I was born and to do the math to get to the age I started working.

**Jon** · Jun 13, 2021, 01:38 PM

Artillery shell workers at Kokura Arsenal. Fukuoka, Japan, 1943.

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**Jon** · Jun 20, 2021, 02:49 PM

Bloom clippers. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. 1940.

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