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Trail Blazers: When lifeguards earned $1.85 an hour

The 1969 ad sought a pool manager, four senior lifeguards and two cashiers, while today’s lifeguards earn $27.96 an hour.

A funny thing happens whenever I visit the archives looking for one story. I always end up finding another. That was certainly the case during a Thursday morning stop at the Trail Museum and Archives. I had asked collections coordinator Addison Oberg to pull a bound volume of the Trail Daily Times from the spring of 1969. My original plan was to research Silver City Days and the Miss Trail competition. Instead, as usual, I found myself distracte…
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Trail Daily Times broke the news in Trail, Canada on Friday, June 19, 2026.
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