Winnipeg tales My story in the flat glass industry - 1960 to 1973

摘要

It was spring, 1960, in the city of the Golden Boy, the longitudinal centre of North America. I was hired by Pilkington Glass on Market Avenue as draftsman at $200 a month - a liveable salary for the days when I was still living at home, a coffee cost $0.25, a gallon of gas was $0.35 and I was driving a '54 Chevy that I had bought for $600 with $30 monthly payments. After one year they offered a $15 a month raise, which I questioned because I was now doing drafting and estimating, but manager Jacques Bernard insisted that was all he could offer. Yes, sure, right.