s__t you mean the workhouse.....my mentor was jimmy gazella...he chain me to the front end....(i still remember jimmy workin the ding box)
but learn the "pie cart" around big john stong on the west coast and melvin and bk silverlake on fisher bros
it wasn't until johnny ristick's mother... ruby, shucked her finger at me and said .....go sell hot dogs and hamburgers and you'll make alot of money, that was on the "midway of mirth" ........well she was right ...and anybody that knows flash ...knows his daughter named ruby....out of respect
......cookhouses....truley a personality bussines....well let's see...
since i was the last one they let in the business....and gazella gave me my apprenship...marvin wells had and still has a first class act
but we all know .....the "site down grab" is where the money is the front end sit down grab....you know first in on the right with the seating.. ok ok ok
ace mathews and his lovely bride betty....peewee and again not to take anything away from these guys ....their true love was the sit down grab...nice back end for show folks ....coffee.. most important thing next to being clean ....and being opened ....and the show you was around had a lot to do with it ....(being able to hit it and git it)
all those good operators were still out there .....i was with the Drew family for 11 years ....what a pleasure to serve those folks
Myers Fred Kissel Lou Weaver...the 20 to 25 ride show and finally with John AND Sheila Stein for 5 years
cookhouse was the backbone of any show... the army moved on its stomach...(can't forget the popper)...but that's another story) where was the measure of life .....be around the big show (god bless ya kosa)
it still debut the issue in my head... line operation or grab.
well there was ace mathews....peewee jimmy coffield the cauifields
over on dell and travers
while where on a roll.....what about the giant's camp(gone..but will never be forgotten... park the trucks and take everybody to the "camp".... i got the burger and the fries and the bar
andy and chuckie ( i told my wife, let's buy the bar...shes saving pa one tree and one creeck at a time)
guys like John Curtis John McCarthy....livin in gibtown
talkin, eaten, livin, smoke, lovin the business
rasin your family .....it was honor and a privilage to be a workin showmen
flash
lotman how i do [:)]
to have logged 32 years