Me too!! My recollection is that I received one cent per newspaper and my route consisted of about eighty customers. A Sunday paper earned me five cents. With tips, ten bucks a week. But my dad required me to save half, which left about five dollars. And being a typical pre-teen there was always something on the want list. Bottom line is it took me several years to fill the album.
My latest project, fortunately I had a lot of these before I bought the albums. Although it looks to still have quite a few holes.