Archie could have kept his job….
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Fletcherj119 — 9 years ago(February 08, 2017 01:47 AM)
Did he make $5.00 an hour? We were told he took home $150 a week in 1973 but was cut to $145 a week when he could no longer claim Gloria as a defendant when she started working.
I was paid minimum wage, which was $3.10 an hour, in 1980 when I got my first job. I don't remember what I took home a week.
Archie would never have let Harry run the bar for him, at least when he first bought the place. They closed at 4:00 AM, so it wouldn't have been possible for Archie to keep his foreman job. -
vitoscotti — 9 years ago(February 08, 2017 04:13 AM)
$3.10 an hour here too bagging groceries 1977.
Archie was a foreman i thought Burt Mustin mentioned in archies worried about his job.
Googling the median income for the early 70s is around 8k. It shot up to 16 k in 1981.
Poor archie in the early 70s worked in a time frame where blue collar workers didnt ear much.
One aspect of the show that i found unrealistic is mike freeloading off the working class bunkers and not contributing jack until he started tutoring. I dont know he gave much then. He should have been working part-time from day one and contributing. -
Fletcherj119 — 9 years ago(February 08, 2017 06:08 AM)
I agree. Mike should've at least had a weekend job.
Archie did earn more by the time he bought the bar, as he was awarded the Dispatcher's job the previous season. But he still couldn't have kept it and ran the bar also. -
vitoscotti — 9 years ago(February 08, 2017 11:56 AM)
It wouldnt have been feasible for archie to support mike and upkeep the household. He had to eat $40 dollars a week food at least even back in 70s money plus all mikes other expenditures archie got stuck with. Mike had a lot of balls.