Well you definitely post younger than you are. I don’t know how you do it.
Any of you live in Lexington and work in restaurants in the last 20 years
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Well you definitely post younger than you are. I don’t know how you do it.
Yo, why you always baggin on me for being old but give ol @Aike a pass? I believe we are about the same age. Or pretty close to it?
I think Aike is around 45 or so. I wasn’t far off. I definitely would tag you about it if you were under 50 but we can’t change our age.
I was a busboy at Perkins Pancake House in 1965. That place was so busy back then, there was someone directing traffic in the parking lot on Sundays because of the after church crowds. It was located in the Rose Street triangle, across from the UK Chandler Med Center.
A short stack of three (3) pancakes was only $.50 back then and Thursday nights were ALL YOU CAN EAT !! Those were the days !!
A short stack of three (3) pancakes was only $.50 back then and Thursday nights were ALL YOU CAN EAT !! Those were the days !!
I loved Ollies Trolley, just outside the bookstorr. I have tried to follow copy cat recipes but have not come close. I ate one every week and once a week I ate the burger at Columbias Steak House. I want to say a burger and fries waa a $1.00 on Sundays.
I was in Holmes in 74. A bunch of us used to play tackle football on Old Stoll Field grass. Alot of injuries occured in those games.
I wake up 2:30 AM M-F, 6:00 AM on Saturdays, 4:00 AM on Sundays (helps ease into M-F wake ups)
I don’t trust people who sleep in past 6:00-7:00/aren’t morning folks. Show a little bit of life you bastards.
Sleeping is 4 the dead. Rich people sleep poor people are up before the rooster
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Yep 15 cent Hamburgers, 10 cent Frys, and a Nickel coke. I’m not even that old (37) but I remember being able to fill up my car in High School and get a pack of smokes under $20.
First restaurant I ever went to in Lex was Perkins. 1993,
Was really good, and cheap. Went with three buddies (guys I met in freshman orientation, so using the term buddies loosely). One of the kids had never been to a full service restaurant before, he couldn’t believe he could get free refills on drink. Kid must have drank about 15 cokes. Good times.
I worked at the Huddle (Rose and Euclid) and Kampus Korner (Rose and Columbia) from age 10 until age 28 1960 to 1978.
Most of the people that worked there are legally prohibited from using computers.
I worked in the Starbucks in the student center for 2 years and then the food court for an additional year from 2001 to 2004. Then I worked at a place in Richmond Toad called Mocha Monkey Cafe for a summer, and a bunch of the Starbucks around town for a few years
I'm now retired from welding after 30 years, but I used all of them. My father owned a large welding/machine shop for several decades and I was proficient on mild steel, stainless, cast iron and aluminum at age 13. ( I was certified on 7018 for all applications) The majority of my work consisted of heavy equipment and farm implement repairs, pipeline, and fire escapes and hand railings. (I hated those, lol).Hey WWelder, I've been meaning to ask for some time ... Stick, Mig, or Tig?
My last major job was in '99 ; I was the lead structural welder on the new Fayette County Detention Center when one of my laborers dropped a 20' length of 4x 4 x3/8th's angle iron we were carrying on my leg. Career ending injury.
It was usually hard, hot honest work, and I admit that I miss it at times.
My father was a journeyman pipefitter/welder in the union trades around the refineries in Ashland most of his life. Always had a Lincoln buzz box around the house that I used to play around with growing up. Dad always said one of the toughest welds to make was a butt-weld on pipe ... starting in the bell-hole, running in the stringer, filler and cap. I tried it few times and found I spent most of my time on the grinder cleaning out the mess I made ... LOL. He could lay the metal in like butter and barely need a chipping hammer/wire brush to clean his welds. He was the guy who tested new welders on stick welding pipe, cutting coupons and bending for breakage at the weld. Most of the old timers that I occasionally got to work with, on some of my summer stints between college semesters, were real men with a work ethic that would make you take a second look. I had such respect for the men of that generation. I was really lucky to have known a few of them.
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Those Lincoln 220 buzzboxes will last a lifetime. I always kept an AC/DC one in the garage for many years.