Message #30711

[cocookie]

Worked at a country club after school and on Sundays and then 6 days a week in the summers during high school and college.  Answered a switchboard - the old fashioned kind with cords.  It was an interesting building because it was used as the house in the movie "The Philadelphia Story" with Katherine Hepburn.  There were lots of trees around the building and when there were lightening storms I had to step away from the swithboard becasue the electricity would get conducted through the trees and then into the old wiring and sparks would come out of the holes in the board.  

In that job I had to mimeograph the daily menu (messy job) and I used a very old Addressograph machine.

Throughout the years I also did lots of whatever needed to be done, like waiting cocktails when I was old enough, taking care of the coat check when someone didn't show up, etc.  One day I even sewed emblems on the pockets of sport coats.