125 papers, some real STEEP San Diego hills (on the golf course side of 30th and Juniper). Sundays were the worst. I zigged and zagged also. I hated having to fold the wax paper sheets around the newspapers when it was raining. I roofed a few, and designed a huge cantilevered 2" x 2" 10 foot long "grabber" that with a sweeping action could knock the paper off of the roof.

I think back to what someone coming by at 4:30 am might think when they saw this young guy standing on a porch with this wooden hinged device sweeping the roof!

Sometimes I said "Hi!" to customers who were coming back from a late night out as I was delivering the early morning papers. There were 3 of us who always folded our papers together on the same street corner.

Yes, something has been lost!