Friday, May 23, 2014

Four for Fridays

Hello everyone and welcome back! It has been back to the grind this week. Wonderful, huh? It has been busy, yet slow. Makes sense, huh? The week has been weird. Anyways, some questions for you....

1) What was your first job?

2) What was your favorite childhood toy?

3) Did you go to a summer camp as a child?

4) What do you remember about your grandparents?

Enjoy your weekend! 
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lizardmom said...

1. I was a bus kid at Hof Brau Haus German restaurant in Caledonia on hy 38, now Shamrock. As I didn't have my license yet, I had to find something I could bike to.
2. It was a giant stuffed gorilla, loved that thing, I carried it everywhere with me
3. sure did
4. They squabbled all the time, but it was funny. Grandpa had a few nervous breakdowns before I was born, didn't find that out til after he passed. They left him with a young child like way about him that was crazy fun, oh how he knew how to push grandma's buttons

May 23, 2014 at 5:52 AM
BL Basketcase said...

1) What was your first job?
The same as I said the first time you asked....heheheh

2) What was your favorite childhood toy?

3) Did you go to a summer camp as a child? Girl Scout Camp Manistee

4) What do you remember about your grandparents?They were great and I would write a book about them.
Grandpa taught me to fish, to ski off a 10 horse power motor, to shoot guns, play poker, and smoke a pipe.

May 23, 2014 at 6:53 AM
BL Basketcase said...

toy I forgot....favorite my doctor bag, and Ferdinand , my stuffed red bull.

May 23, 2014 at 6:55 AM
legal stranger said...

1. my first job was raking leaves, it was a short lived career as I broke my leg when I fell out of the tree

2. my bicycle of course, it gave me the freedom to travel great distances without boundries

3. Camp FEMA

4. All good, home cooking, childhood rhymes, the five cents to walk to the local neighborhood store for candy, the list goes on and on.

May your next camp NOT be camp FEMA.

Have a great weekend irregulars!

May 23, 2014 at 7:09 AM
Beejay said...

1. Had a job at Globe Optical in Milwaukee for one day. Don't suppose that counts...after high school, I was hired as a rater at an insurance company.

2. I lived on a farm in my earliest part of my life. I didn't have dolls, so I would put baby pigs in my carriage...dress them up, etc...


3. Nope. We couldn't afford camp.

4. My father's mom died when he was about ten. His dad when I was two. My Mom's folks lived in Texas. Spent very little time with them. Grandma made my clothes, but really don't have a lot of fond memories. Boppy, as we called my grandfather was good with kids and I wished I could have spent time with him.

By the way, my mom's folks taught at Racine High School back about 1910 or so. That's where they met. I have pictures somewhere of the faculty picnic on the Root River.

May 23, 2014 at 7:37 AM
OKIE said...

1. Besides babysitting my first real job was working at the Racine Education Association. Got that through the job program at Park.

2. My brothers cowboy hat and guns.

3. All I can think of is Camp Andakegi (I know I got that wrong).

4. I never knew my dad's father but his mom was a hypochondriac who should have been a nun. Mom's parents were pretty old. My grandfather was in his 80's when he died in 65. Memories.

Thanks Drew!

May 23, 2014 at 8:25 AM
Toad said...

1. Clean-Up boy Meat Dept. Porkus Shakus on Taylor.

2. Bike?

3. No, but the family went camping every year for many years.

4. Everybody was dead, except my dad's dad, and I liked him, but nobody else did. He was nice to me. He alway's took me fishing for perch on the Pier.

May 23, 2014 at 11:23 AM
Toad said...

Liz, The woman that ran the place was ONE tough German. That's all I will say. I tended bar there for TWO nights. Long story. Crazy stuff happening behind the bar with the money, and the guy that was head bartender at the time, didn't want anyone to know, so he got her to get rid of me on the pretex I was slow, when In fact, at that time, I would have taken ANYONE on for speed at the bar. I didn't really care though, I wasn't a great place to work, even for two nights.

May 23, 2014 at 11:26 AM
Tender Heart Bear said...

1) Babysitting unless you mean getting a paycheck that would be Speigel Outlet Store.

2) My bike because then I could go and see my Grandma.

3) No.

4) On my dad's side my Grandpa died when my dad was six months old so I never knew him, my Grandma I was very close to and I would ride my bike to go and see her. On my mom's side my Grandparents lived upstairs until my parents moved to a suburb of Chicago. I was not that close to them because my older sister was their favorite. I could never do anything right for them.

Have a great weekend!

May 23, 2014 at 12:18 PM
lizardmom said...

Toad, yes, she was a really hard woman. Her son, who ran the kitchen, was a dirty minded, skirt chasing, loud, creep, but he was a darn good cook. The daughter/sister, was the one that hired me and I never had a problem with her, I just avoided her mom like the plague

May 23, 2014 at 2:37 PM
kkdither said...

Well... here we go.

1. Boy Blue would be my first reportable income to the IRS.

2. Roller skates and ice skates, depending on the season.

3. Spent a few nights at Dream's End and Trefoil Oaks.

4. On my dad's side: honest, hard working and loving. My mother's mother had too many grandchildren. Not sure if she even knew our names. Seemed we were more of a nuisance to her.

Thanks, Drew.
Toad, LMBO... Porkus Shakus.

May 23, 2014 at 2:45 PM
OrbsCorbs said...

1) I worked at Ridgeway Mfg. Co., a hardware distributor in the old Industrial Building, part-time after school.

2) A stuffed dog ("Blackie") that I slept with.

3) No summer camps.

4) My grandparents were behind the Iron Curtain, so I never met them.

Thanks, drew, for the questions.

May 23, 2014 at 4:55 PM
Toad said...

Orb's, Wow, "The Iron Curtain" It's been a long time since I have heard that.

KK, Your pretty darn smart. Most people don't know what I'm talking about.

May 23, 2014 at 6:04 PM
OKIE said...

Oh I do miss Speigel

May 23, 2014 at 8:21 PM
OrbsCorbs said...

Toad, my parents left their homeland after WWII because the Russians "liberated" them from the Nazis, but then the Russians decided to stay there (and elsewhere) and absorb them. Their was a short window of opportunity offered to those who wanted to leave the country. My parents didn't want to live under Communism, so they left. They never saw their parents or siblings again.

My dad lived and breathed Cold War.

May 23, 2014 at 8:49 PM
drewzepmeister said...

1) Other than being a paperboy for the Journal Times, I was a dishwasher for Colony Inn in West Racine.

2) Probably my bike.

3) Camp Anakijig

4) I loved going Up North to visit my grandparents on my Dad's side. They had this cabin on the lake and lots of land to explore. (I still go up that way-my folks live a half mile down the road) Even though my grandfather was bone deaf, he would toss change on the gravel driveway for us kids to "find" them.

My grandparents on my mother's side lived in Oregon. I remember taking trips out there. They would show us some of the scenic wonders like Mt. Hood. One more cooler things they used to do was get involved and listen to us kids.

May 23, 2014 at 10:32 PM
SER said...

1) first job?
Working on the farm

2) favorite childhood toy?
skate board

3) summer camp as a child?
Boy Scout Camp

4) remember about your grandparents?
Not much most were dead when i was little.

May 24, 2014 at 12:00 AM

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