Thank you for sharing your memories with us.
My first job was painting the eyes, collars and noses on cast iron bulldogs. I was 15 at the time. I worked saturdays during school..in the summer I worked full time. One day I came in and there were 500 tiny little cast iron frogs. I never want to see another frog again. I loved that job. I made 1.90 an hour, that was in 1972. Pretty good money for a teenager.