The cool thing about having friends that worked at food places was when you would stop in and they would hook you up. I know many fast food and yogurt places where the "hook up" was standard. Or, there were the trades. You work in a strip mall for example and would trade ice cream from your place of employment for pizza from the teenagers working across the way.
What about you? Where did you earn your weekend dollars so you had money to buy outfits at Miller's Outpost and Contempo? (ha ha)
Pictured: Kelly Rodgers at MacDonald's on San Juan(picture hijacked from Andrea Cast's collection on Facebook - thanks A!)
10 comments:
'Po Folks - now that is a name I haven't heard in a while! I used to love that restaurant, especially the drink in Mason jars,heh.
I worked first for a very short while at the Dairy Queen on San Juan/Winding Wy, dodging cockroaches whilst making food. The Booths never quite did clean that place well when they owned it.
Then I worked at Round Table Pizza on San Juan/Winding Wy. for a year. Many other DC alumni worked there, and many frequented there as well. I remember Mike Montgomery from your class of '89 worked there too, I had such a crush on him! I could never get the smell and remnants of pizza off of me, no matter how hard I tried. Then I worked my senior year at Dairy Queen again, this time the one on Madison/Garfield area (long closed, now it's a LaBou).
I remember other DC alumni working at Bel Air, Godfather's Pizza, Burger King on Dewey Dr. (my brother did), and some place called Tropical Sno, which I could never figure out where that place was located.
Water World was the coolest spot to work. Wether you were steaming hot dogs behind a counter or wearing a skimpy red swimsuit checking out everyone's tan, it was the best first job to have. Where else could you work all hours during the summer, see the concerts at CalExpo and meet all the local DJs?
During our senior year, I got a job teaching sailing at the Sac State Aquatics center. That was the coolest job. I had so much fun and would probably still be doing it if you could actually make a living doing so.
I worked at The Gap - where they didn't pay you enough, but you had to buy their clothes anyway. That didn't last long.
I worked at a much better job (even into college) in Soda Springs for the Summer teaching kids about the environment on backpack trips, rockclimbing excursions, and night hikes. I REALLY miss that job! (Still paid pennies though)
krista: i totally remember when you had that job. i think the guy i went to jr prom with worked with you there...or i dated someone you worked with there?
I was one of those poor souls who had to bag groceries at Bel Air and walk them to every car back then wearing pretty much a tuxcedo (white long sleeve with tie and black pants) sweating bullets in the 100 degree heat even the gound was smokin hot!! I think one day I woke up late for work (after a long friday night cruising birdcage and sunrise boulevard) and just decided never to go back! No call no show.. Good stuff, then I worked at a video store much better!!!
My best job was the summer after my freshman year and i worked for the raft rental place with all the senior guys.
Tab, Becky & I used to work at Baskin Robbins in the Crestview shopping center. Apparently the Slates who owned the place used to sit out in the parking lot and eat popcorn while spying on us through binoculars. That didn't stop us though from countless trades with the kids from Mountain Mike's across the street. I remember Tab's addiction to Capaccino Chip (RIP...that was a great flavor!). I was and still am a mint chip girl. I don't remember Becky's flavor...but she was obsessed with a man we called the Hulk who came in regularly for banana splits.
God, I worked at Burger King for a month when I was 15. Katie Gerity had a bet with someone that I wouldn't last a month and that was about right.
Amy Bywater then got me a job at Flakey Jake's. I didn't get it in the first interview and when I told her she said "That's because you haven't got big enough tits. I'll talk to them." She then went in and told them if they didn't hire me she would quit. They hired me, she quit anyway.
Management changed and I think I worked there for two years with a bunch of other DC people.
It was one of those build your own burger places and I used to get a burger, smother it in nacho cheese and dump black olives and sour cream on it until it all oozed out the sides. Now I am in the land of crappy burgers and hard cheese with only my memories to sustain me.
Can we have burgers at the reunion? I keep trying to explain real burgers to my partner and he doesn't get it.
Andrea your stories are killing me. I'm so grateful for the details you remember. I forgot about Flakey Jakes!
Here's to big burgers and little ta-ta's - cheers (clink-clink!).
Post a Comment