Worked for Mario Perillo, in a little store under the 3rd ave el. Me and Sara stuffed envelopes, we were around 12 years old.

Did you get a free trip tp Italy

Worked cleaning up in a boarding house in 1963, the Alexanders stock boy in 1964.

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Originally posted by Barry B:
Did you get a free trip tp Italy

Barry, if I did, I don't remember it.

Kat, during the 1950s, my uncle had a restaurant right next door to Perillo's. Do you remember it?

LORETTA, PAESNO, WHAT WAS IT CALLED????

It was called Oliveri's Restaurant and located on the corner of 3rd Avenue and 184th Street. Mario's store was right next to it.

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Originally posted by Loretta:
It was called Oliveri's Restaurant and located on the corner of 3rd Avenue and 184th Street. Mario's store was right next to it.

YES I REMEMBER IT, AND MY HUSBAND KNEW ALL OF YOUR UNCLES.

WHEN I WAS 17 AND STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL, I WAS IN A WORK PROGRAM. EVERY DAY I GOT OUT OF SCHOOL AT 1:30 AND WENT INTO MANHATTAN TO WORK AS A SECRETARY IN A LAWYER'S OFFICE. IT WAS A GREAT JOB, AND IT TAUGHT ME A LOT ABOUT THE LAW.

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Originally posted by TTP9PA:

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Originally posted by Loretta:
It was called Oliveri's Restaurant and located on the corner of 3rd Avenue and 184th Street. Mario's store was right next to it.

YES I REMEMBER IT, AND MY HUSBAND KNEW ALL OF YOUR UNCLES.

Isn't the world getting smaller and smaller? lol

are you typing with one hand?

The first money I earned for myself was in 1947 I was 6. In the summer when the teenagers would play softball in Taft school yard at 172nd and morris ave. My job was to run across the street to Lavine's candy to get sodas for the guys. If the soda was say 8 cents and they gave me a dime to get it the 2 cents was mine. Plus I'd get the deposit money . This went on from early morning till dark Saturday and Sunday. For a little kid those pennies, nickles, dimes every so often a quarter added up. I did that untill I moved away in 1950

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Originally posted by Dennis M:
Worked cleaning up in a boarding house in 1963, the Alexanders stock boy in 1964.

Dennis, the Alexander's on Fordham or Third Ave.?

Worked in the A&P on Kingsbridge Rd.

My first job was as a candy striper at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington Heights. I wanted to be a nurse so this was my training ground.

My first job was during the summer of 1969, right after graduation from Walton H.S. I volunteered at the Veterans' Hospital on Kingsbridge Road until I took off to college in the fall. I was an independent volunteer, not a candy striper.

I was a caddy at a municipal golf course until I backed an electric cart through a fence and the caddymaster decided I should look elsewhere for employment. Then I harvested wild pachysandras for the other D'Agostino who had a market and flower stand. He was cheap. Next, I bussed tables for Horn & Hardart in Cross County. Free meals and first degree burns from hot plates coming out of the dishwasher. Finally, I finished off my high school career (after a summertime gig in a plastics factory at night) as a stock assistant in a department store after school.

The Public Library near Jahn's off Fordham Rd. I lasted a week, and my first and only pay went to Jahn's!!

pbatur,

Are you sure you weren't a pinboy at University Lanes? <g>

Paper boy, where else but in Edgewater Park.