This is the ice cream menu at the restaurant where I worked in 1964-65. (I was 16) It had an extensive regular menu too. We were expected however, as waitresses to prepare the ice cream dishes ourselves. We also served each table a relish tray, which were highly prized by the patrons and a huge pain for us because they got sloppy very fast. One dish had a kidney bean salad, one a corn salad, and the third, cucumber. The restaurant was outside and on gravel by the Delaware River so carrying any food was a chore. I lost fifteen pounds the summer I worked there, coming home at 90 pounds. My mother shrieked when she saw me. The hamburgers sold for $2.00 which never failed to get hostile comments from people just beginning to frequent McDonalds and getting them for $.15.
Did you have a summer job during high school and college. I also worked at Vic's Pizza Place where every chore was mine except handling the cash register.
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Can I get a root beer float to go? What a great old time menu!
My best job was working at a video store when they were a new thing and I could take home all the new movies for free.
My father owned a small home construction company, so my summers and vacations were pretty much spoken for. As the boss's son, I tended to get all the scut and dirty jobs. Still, it taught me the value of hard work and made me seriously aware of my tendency to fall off roofs.
My dream was to to work in a book store but that never happened. I had waitress written all over me.
I never had a real summer job, I was so shy I am surprised I ever got a job. My first job when I dropped out of college for a year and a half was an electrocardiograph technician in a hospital, and that keeps you slim. And when I worked at a department store for a few months when my first husband was in Air Force pilot training I lost a lot of weight because I was on my feet and loading shelves for Christmas eight hours a day.
Great story! Can't believe you were able to find the menu from 1964-65. So I guess you didn't eat much of the ice cream if you lost that much weight.
At 16, the year I graduated high school, I went back to my old summer camp and worked at the canteen. We opened after lunch and supper, selling ice cream and candy but also stamps, post cards and other things. They used me as a general dogsbody too.
I was not ready for college (at least not the one I went to), so when I dropped out I had to get a job. It was for $65 a week at the Mutual Insurance Rating Bureau (MIRB) on Third Avenue and 46th Street in Manhattan, where I worked for two years and really grew up. Believe it or not, people, but I was setting your car insurance rates at 17 & 18. (This is an exaggeration, but I did learn how to change the rates.) It was basically a clerical math job (my wheelhouse), but what I learned was: responsibility, being on the job at 8:45 every day (I think I was late once or twice in two years due to subway issues), having my first checking account, buying lunch and snacks (I was probably 200 pounds for the only time in my life), etc. But it was mostly dealing with and interacting with people from all over the world - Ukraine, Turkey (there were four Turks, one of whom taught me all the curse words he knew), the Caribbean, even The Bronx and Harlem.
Back in college, I worked (another clerical job) at Blumberg, Block, Carter & Bachman, on the 55th floor of the Empire State Building. It was a real rush taking the express elevator from 1 to 55.
During High School, I mowed lawns for a number of people. In the winter, I shoveled the snow off people's driveways and sidewalks for money. My first real "job" was as a dishwasher the summer before I went to College. After that, I worked in a Goodyear chemical plant Summers. My last summer job was working for U.S. Customs as a clerical worker. Then, I graduated from College and went to work as a teacher in a Junior High School while I took Graduate courses at night towards my Library degree.
I never worked a part time job during High School. There wasn't much available in the suburbs without having a car. During college I worked for Pontiac Motors and Fisher Body which paid pretty good.
So interesting. Seems like the opportunities for summer jobs wane and wax.
Actually, Jeff, I am still not a big fan of ice cream. Seeing it up my arms to the elbow from dipping in those deep vats made it less appetizing.
I was just thinking in terms of how Jackie might have reacted under those circumstances. She loves ice cream.
When I worked in camp I discovered frozen Mallo Cups and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. I ate more than a few as well as selling them as well as other frozen candy bars.
During my brief first stint in college, I had three jobs: answering the reception phone in the dorm, working in the cafeteria, babysitting weekends for a family that socialized all weekend long. Maybe this is why my first stab at college didn't last long.
During high school, once I had a driver's license, after classes I worked the back half of a small burger joint near the school. I seemed to always smell of the onions I chopped every day. Later I worked in a bicycle shop doing repairs. In college, I only worked two summers, both as a lifeguard at the Main Beach in Laguna Beach, in Orange County. The tests were difficult, but I'd been swimming all my life so I did okay. Made a few important saves. The last year I worked in a gas station, graveyard shift.
After college, I worked for the Southern California Gas Company for a couple of years, then bought a gardening route from a friend and did that - self employed - for a couple of years. Finally, I got a job with the County where I stayed for 38 years.
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