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onethatcares

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9. I washed dishes and bussed tables

Reply to SoCalDem (Original post)

Tue Jan 29, 2019, 01:55 PM

Jan 2019

at the Whitners in Reading PA. a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggg time ago

my wife waited counter at Woolworths, Anchorage AK, she waited tables at Robinsons in St Petersburg FL and then went on to clerical work.

My tipping habits are really good, but they can be really bad if the server has an attitude.

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Restaurants 50 years ago ( memory lane, anyone?) [View all] SoCalDem Jan 2019 OP

Old School New England bottomofthehill Jan 2019 #1

Stonehenge--Ridgefield, CT n/t sprinkleeninow Jan 2019 #2

YES! elleng Jan 2019 #8

My step-dad treated us several times dining there. Mom and I felt like sprinkleeninow Jan 2019 #14

I remember when major Dept. Stores had a huge restaurant inside of them Yavin4 Jan 2019 #3

Yep, Dayton's in Minneapolis had the Oak Grill. geardaddy Jan 2019 #6

When we kids were small Ohiogal Jan 2019 #4

I remember those days! geardaddy Jan 2019 #7

Those were the days. My small town had a Woolworth's Resturant. Fla Dem Jan 2019 #5

I washed dishes and bussed tables onethatcares Jan 2019 #9

In the late 60s SCantiGOP Jan 2019 #10

John A. Brown's had a big restaurant lillypaddle Jan 2019 #11

Another: Howland's Dept. Store had a restaurant in their basement level. sprinkleeninow Jan 2019 #12

Nine Knox Street in Boston. LAS14 Jan 2019 #13