ESSO CLUB TICKETS
Esso Club Tickets. I wonder why they were call Club Tickets. Everyone call them Club Tickets, no one called them Club Money and that is what they were; money, the legal tender of Lago Colony that came in a little book we called Club Books.
Every adult man carried a Club Book in his top pocket. It was always there, sticking out of his pocket protector, along with the pens, pencils and a ruler or slide rule. All the tools needed to work at Lago, there in their top pocket, along with the money to spend at the Esso Club, the Bowling Alley, and anyplace else where you could buy things in the Colony, except the Commissary, there you give a payroll number and signed a little piece of paper.