Curt Dalton
148 posts
Jun 28, 2009
4:24 PM
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My first job was for an antique store in New Lebabnon when I was 16. I would take old wooden furniture and strip the paint off of them. When winter came I had to switch from outdoors to the attic of the store. If anyone has ever stripped paint, you know what I mean when I say that the stuff was powerful and smelled awful. I would go around with a contact high from the fumes for several hours after stripping. I think it's what's causing a lot of my brain cells to take a vacation every now and then. (It's definitely NOT because I am getting old...)Anyway, I lasted about three months, then switched to shoveling snow and feeding hogs - more money and fresher air!
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samstone
12 posts
Jun 28, 2009
7:42 PM
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I was a dish washer at Parkmoor in Vandalia about 1962.
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Becky73
136 posts
Jun 28, 2009
9:14 PM
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I applied for work at the library that was near Northtown, off of Main street during high school but never got the job because I had dated one of the other library aides. So, my first job was after I graduated high school, my first winter break from nursing school. I applied at Good Samaritan hospital ( because I had been a volunteer there for years )for a nurses aide job, but they decided that I should work at the information desk as a clerk since I did know the hospital and could give directions. I was there Christmas Eve, Day, New Years Eve and day giving the regular employees a break. They paid me very well and it helped a lot.
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SeeDavid
285 posts
Jun 30, 2009
9:35 PM
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14 yrs old - Selective Service Clerk, (Guidance Office, and still feel guilty).
14 yrs old - told tale about my age and was a cashier and bookkeeper at Smedley's Chevrolet - walked there after school, stayed til 10pm, Saturdays - 10 AM - 4PM
$1.60 and hour was given a raise to $1.62. Did my homework while adding up service tickets and answering the phone...
Sorry about those draft cards, guys.. I hated it too.
~Cindi
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rodat6
47 posts
Jul 02, 2009
6:04 PM
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My first real job other than a morning paper route (Journal Herald) for a year and selling papers on downtown street corners, my first job which I quit school for, Colonel White HS was at the R.L. Kennett PhotoStats on Ludlow just south of 6th street almost next to the train station. The owner and my boss was Rudy Kennett who smoked Pall Mall cigarettes and would take 2 or 3 puffs then put them out. He was a nervous man and paid me to start at 75 cents an hour for delivering photostats to downtown art studios who used them in graphic design for ads and such. I rode a bike. I thought I was making good pay which equated to 25 buck weekly, take home.
In the 9th grade at Colonel White which was the only year I attended I bought a draft card from a classmate, Randy F.C. Tipton. My board member was Juanita Whitlock which was probably made up although the card was genuine enough. I used it once to purchase a 3.2 beer in a bar near where I lived, I paid $5. for the card.
This was in 1958 and the photostat operator was drafted which moved me to photostat maker. I mixed fresh chemicals every day, used alum which shrunk my skin and that is why they use it in Preparation H, LOL. No, really.
I also made silk screens for circuit boards, they were huge then in comparison and did opaque jobs on negatives also made copy prints and enlargements. For my new position I was given a nickel an hour raise. Now I were rich (sic) lol.
I worked there for about six months then hitchhiked with a friend to Miami Fla. where I did not work, stayed a few months, my friend split and I hitchhiked by myself back to Dayton. On the way in Ashville North Carolina in a early morning truck stop had my first cup if coffee, black and hot. Mother drank coffee but always did cream and sugar and I never like the taste, I liked the taste of the black coffee though and that's how I drink it to this day.
That was my first job.
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driver62
185 posts
Jul 03, 2009
6:50 AM
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Other than delivering the Dayton News in my hometown of Eaton, I worked two summers while in high school helping clean furnaces in houses.
Since this was back in the 50's, most furnaces were coal fired so it was a very dirty job. But I got paid $1 an hour and thought I was rich.
To make a little extra, I also cut grass for several people. My father gave me an allowance during the school year but in the summer, the allowance stopped and he told me to get a job if I wanted spending money.
So my first real job was cleaning furnaces.
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Keugene48
44 posts
Jul 03, 2009
7:35 AM
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I went to Patterson Co-op High School, in the medical arts division. My first job was a "co-op" job working as an assistant to a dentist. This was not a receptionist type job, I was a true assistant - doing the suction machine, mixing filling materials and whatever else the dentist needed. I too received $1.00 an hour. At the end of the week we parted ways by mutual agreement. My next co-op job was a Trained Attendant (nurse's aide) at Miami Valley Hospital for $1.35 an hour. I worked there for my two years of high school. I took some Practical Nurse school after graduation but quit to get married and move to Florida. Ten years later I discovered I loved accounting and clerical work. If I had known that when I started high school I could have gone into accounting and gotten a job at NCR or DP&L and made twice the money for a lot less work! Oh well, hindsight is 20/20.
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jakspot@sprynet.com
14 posts
Jul 03, 2009
3:55 PM
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My first real job was during the summer before my junior year of high school. I worked for Montgomery County in the basement of the "new" courthouse. We drew diagrams of people's houses from the measurements given by the people who surveyed homes for tax purposes. They lined up wooden tables on both sides of the hallway facing the wall. I think there were all girls, but I'm not sure. Once or twice during lunch we went into the basement of the "old" courthouse and read case files from the 20s & 30s. We also ate at Chung Suns. It was in the basement on Ludlow St. I believe I read years later that it was closed by the health department. There was an elderly waiter there that never wrote anything down but always got your order right.
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Steve K
66 posts
Jul 04, 2009
3:15 PM
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My first real job was at Stuckey's in Wilmington, Ohio, didn't get paid much, but I got all the peanut brittle and pecan divinity that I could eat! Next job was at Custom Electronics in Dayton, then Srepco Electronics, finally Becker Electric.
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thomas6
4 posts
Jul 04, 2009
7:33 PM
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my first real job was working at Everybody's book store and office supply,and rain,snow or shine i had to walk my skinny little butt all over downtown delivering office supply for i believe a good dollar an hour,i was going to patterson at the time and work shared so i could go to school,such memories
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redrover98
11 posts
Jul 04, 2009
9:12 PM
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From about 1967-1970 my brother and sisters delivered The Shopping News in Belmont. We had to roll, bag and deliver about 320 papers. I remember we got paid a total of $3.20 per week. My share was 80 cents for a couple of hours work.
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JohnC
85 posts
Jul 08, 2009
6:13 AM
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My first "real" job was taking inventory and sacking gorceries at Woody's Market in West Carrollton. It was 1971, I was 15 years old and earned a whopping $1.25 an hour. From there, I went to the Dayton Mall Cinema I as doorman. Big raise to $1.50/hr. Worked 36 hours a week (including 8 hour days Saturday and Sunday) through 1973 and as a second job off an on through about 1977. I hated those Saturday kiddee matinees, but hey, it was all the free movies you could stand and free popcorn you could eat. Got to wear a tux and bowtie. Wow. It was a lot of fun and I met a lot of interesting people.
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Peggy Gilbert
8 posts
Jul 13, 2009
9:36 PM
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My first job was at the Parkmoor on Linden Ave. in 1960 I made a whopping .55 per hour. I was only 14 but could luckily pass for 18. I worked nights as a car-hop, days a student at wilbur wright high school. My next job was at the Hasty Tasty on Linden. Before I worked at Hasty they used to have a DJ in a little booth on the week-ends and Gene Berry was there pretty often. The guy who was the cook Jerry H. at the Hasty went on to purcahse the Frostie Root Beer place on airway where he then built Tuty's. He also started a bar on Valley St. called the Frog. I've lost track of him over the years but he was a really great guy. My husband and I spent many a night at Tuty's they had great food. Of course we tipped a few brews also!!
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Mike C
36 posts
Jul 14, 2009
6:50 PM
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My first job was working at Lawson's on Woodman Drive back in 1966-68. I was under age so I helped the manager there stock the shelves, fill the cooler with GLASS milk bottles and put up the stock boxes in the back. She paid me $1.00 an hour to help out. I later worked at the A&W Rootbeer across the street inside cleaning the mugs, cutting up onions, cleaning the kitchen area. This time I was legal to work ( remember getting a "work permit"?) and was making all of 75 cents an hour. There was more hours than at Lawson's and the manager retired there so the $1.00 an hour was out. At the A&W Rootbeer if you broke a mug they charged you for it even if it wasn't your fault. I broke a few just in the process of cleaning them in the cleaning vats ( usually the handle broke) so at times I lost money working there. I went on vacation with my family and never went back. Who wants to lose money working at a place? A very valuable lesson learned there. LOL
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Doug68
119 posts
Jun 11, 2011
3:16 PM
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My first job was as a 'bottle boy' at the Thunderbowl in Englewood as a 13 year old (1963). Seems like I picked up mostly empty Stroh's Beer bottles at the time.
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rodat6
159 posts
Jun 11, 2011
3:37 PM
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I set pins at McCook around 12, players sometimes would roll a nickle or dime down the gutter after their game. My first real job would be Journal Herald morning route, I was in 3rd or 4th grade, maybe both, had it for 1 year, all seasons. Delivered to Katherine Kennedy Brown's mansion, pitch black sometimes, scary all the time. Doberman's at servant house near street, bark and pull on their chains, found a way to sneak in thought a big crack in the wall on the north side across from the mansion.
Then downtown selling on street corners, sold more papers at Rikes' closing time than at Son's Bar on 6th and Ludlow, bookie heaven but made less than at Son's bar where I sold less. I think a few times especially in the winter I'd get a dollar tip which today would be like 20 or just about. I learned early on that alcohol and economics make a poor fit.
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Doug68
121 posts
Jun 11, 2011
5:18 PM
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Rod, when you set pins at McCook, did you know Elmo Edmonds? From what I heard, he started there as a pinboy, went on to become in charge of them, and later became the head mechanic after automatic pinsetters were installed. When he died some years ago, he was managing the pro shop. I worked a couple of years with him in the pro shop (about 1976-1978) as a ball driller. He was a great guy. By the way, I have seen pinboys only once and that was at the old Academy in Dayton on Xenia Avenue at Steele Avenue. It closed in about 1973 and McCook closed in about 1990.
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rodat6
162 posts
Jun 11, 2011
5:51 PM
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McCook Bowl brings a lot of memories to me, I also had a shoeshine box but used it rarely. The only person I remember their name is Dot who was a black guy who thought he was a girl and we stayed clear of him/her and thought the voice was feminine. Didn't know Elmo. I was 13, 14. I am sure I've talked with Elmo as McCook was a regular hang. So was the theater and my job there was carrying the candy from outside up the stairs to the office where it was stowed. For that I got a fee pass which saved me a quarter which was enough for a hamburger and fry.
Last year our NORML group here in Phoenix started meeting in a local bowling alley, really inexpensive prices and I was teaching much of the group the idea of being ambidextrous and I would bowl left then right, left right all through my games. I was born a rightie but became fairly evened out as I've explained and got my first strike with my left. I stayed fairly equal between right and left, about the same but that was the first time I bowled since the mid Sixties where our company sponsored a league and I bowled in it. New Orleans, La. Hadn't bowled for near 50 years.
Leaving Dayton in 1959 and going to big D, lived there for about 6 months, working to earn enough to get to California, I bowled a little at El Captain' bowling on Henderson, Dallas about a half mile from the house, watched the grill for a shift for the girls once, a guy by the name of Johnny who was a bowling pro and took care of the alley befriended me and gave me pointers, I never really got very good at bowling mostly cause I'm light and occasionally I'd spring my thumb on a ball so I drifted away.
McCook wasn't a job where you signed up or anything, you just went and if they were short handed you could set pins and they would pay you at the end of the bowling. I did it from time to time. No one really knew names other than Dot or Jim and such, we never got into that, I was a kid.
While meeting at the bowling alley here in Phoenix once a month and playing a game afterward, I found a source for used bowling equipment, I could get balls, shoes, bags for $1. each, good equipment, long since used bowling stuff at a thrift store. I bought about 30 balls, shoes and bags and gave them to the alley where we met as a thank you. I saved 2 balls which I still have but now we meet somewhere else.
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nancy121
41 posts
Jun 11, 2011
8:00 PM
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My first job was at Guild and Landis at the corner of 3rd and Main under the clock...I typed auto policies
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oldrndirt
12 posts
Jun 12, 2011
4:49 PM
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I was a sub on Journal Herald routes and rode my bike out to Walnut Grove CC to caddy during my Freshman/Sophomore HS summers and I worked washing dishes in the Patterson Co-op cafeteria ($17.40 every two weeks!) during the school year - My Junior/Senior years my co-op job was repairing washers and dryers and other appliances that were traded in at Rike's Warehouse and working as a warehouse clerk for an electronics parts wholesaler ($1.65-1.75/hr) and that was pretty much year-round - we didn't really get summers off.
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unixTechie
2 posts
Jun 19, 2011
3:58 AM
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My first job apart from first delivering the Shopping News, then the Journal Herald, was at the McDonalds on Linden Ave, across the street from Carroll High School.
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Pattie076
11 posts
Jun 21, 2011
4:36 AM
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McCooks Theater summer of 1974
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F16 1UB
25 posts
Jun 26, 2011
7:14 PM
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I delivered the Dayton Daily News 59-60. Had 52 Sunday & 48 Daily customers. 7 day delivery cost 62 cents. Huber south on Terrylyn & Finland with 2 on Cordell. Many would give me .75 and I thought it was a HUGE tip.
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ConnieK
3 posts
Mar 25, 2012
10:05 AM
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NCR. . .
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bentz
56 posts
Mar 25, 2012
12:15 PM
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I worked for Frantz fruit market then Jeds steak and ribs then I worked for Freedom foods, all this from 12 thru 19 years old.
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bob2012
1 post
Mar 28, 2012
11:33 AM
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patterson co-op first job at reynolds & reynolds printing co,went full-time after high school !!!!!!
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brennan dr.
3 posts
Mar 29, 2012
1:20 PM
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Shining shoes on Lorain Ave. There were at least seven bars within walking distance of my house. When I moved to 626 Lorain ave. in September of 1963, an old gentleman neighbor of mine, handed me a shoeshine box over the fence and suggested that I shine shoes in the local bars. He seemed to think that I could make a lot of money and I did! Although my rate was 15 cents a shine, most always the men would give me $1.00, and quite often $2.00. It great until the bigger kids caught on to the fact that I was making a lot of money, they would shake me down on occasion, so I had to start hiding money in the top of my socks. I usually kept a few dollars in my pockets to keep them from going away broke, it most likely saved me a crack in the head
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cilla46
91 posts
Mar 29, 2012
3:13 PM
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My first real job was at Rike's downtown in 1964.I worked in the marking department pricing merchandise.It was on the 8th floor where I usually ran a pin machine.Remember when most clothing items were priced with a small white tag that had a straight pin holding it to the item?Those tags and pins were put on with a machine that was operated by a pedal on the floor.You stood up in front of the machine which was about chest high and ran the item under a foot where the tag and pin would line up.Then you stepped on the pedal and the pin went through the tag.It was slow and boring work but I made a whopping $1.25 an hour for my labors!Big $$ for a 16 year old at her first job......
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tlturbo
307 posts
Mar 31, 2012
6:17 PM
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My first job was at 18 working for Data Corp on Dayton Xenia Pike in Beavercreek. Somehow I got a Secret Security clearance because we did neat stuff for the Air Force. Mainly photo recon stuff. I started out staking down BIG HEAVY canvas panels that were painted silver with various size black stripes that the Air Force would fly over and take photos of. If anyone looks close enough, there are a couple of large concrete pads along the perimiter of Wright Field and Airway and Huffman Rd that still have some black stripes on them. These were permanent. We would fill a moving van with 30 or so canvas panels and go somewhere to lay them out.
Neatest thing (for an 18 year old) was they fley me to Savannah GA for 2 weeks. Put me up at the Holiday Inn, rented me a new Mustang and I picked up the truck load of canvas at the airport and drove out to Ft Stewart and staked them down in a huge field. 3 nights a week I had to drive out there and turn on big lights to direct the F4 Phantoms in. They would fly over so I knew they found it and I'd turn off the lights. Over the next few hours, they would fly over, drop various flares and take pictures testing filters, film, flares, etc. Then they buzzed the field to let me know they were done and I'd go back to town. Pretty cool.
Later, we were involved in creating 3D images of the moon from early flights and we helped pick out the Apollo landing sites.
I finally changed over to the computer dept as an operator and that started me on my career path in data Processing.
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Juanita057
1 post
Jul 10, 2012
9:07 AM
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Busing tables at Talbot Terrace downtown when I turned 16. Not fun ! LoL
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