Hayes said, she worked for 20 years as an appraiser, a job to which she still devotes three‐fourths of her time. Unfortunately, too many have mental barriers and think too much about what a woman's role should be.”īefore her husband's death, Mrs. “If a woman with ambition and intelligence decides to pursue a profession, she can go places. Hayes said during a break in the auction. “I was liberated long before Gloria Steinem came on the scene,” Mrs. She says she has heard of only two others. Hayes of Forest Hill who entered the profession after the death of her auctioneer husband, Benjamin, four years ago, is one of only a very few woman auctioneers to be licensed by the city's Department of Consumer Affairs. What was different about this day‐long auction was that the auctioneer was a woman.
Later, newer cars in better shape were offered for sale, the bidding became faster and furious, and prices soared as high as $2,000. In most respects, it was a typical automobile auction: The Police Department's Long Island City storehouse was filled with cigar‐chomping used‐car dealers, burly wrecking company operators and a handful of young people looking for a good buy among some 640 confiscated, abandoned and stolen vehicles that they examined in city pounds earlier in the week.Īutos in poor condition were put on the auction block first, and they commanded average prices of $5 to $10.
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