Picking rocks from the fields.
Seven years old, operating 180 degree boom Kranecars, and Forklifts in my father’s steel yard in Lynwood, California on old Alameda St. Worked with him off, and on for years. Newspaper route when I was eight. Carwash when I was thirteen. Lineboy at the Long Beach airport from fourteen to seventeen full, and part time. Full time relief cook at sixteen for Denny’s Restaurant #3 in Long Beach, California until I was eighteen, and then on to Douglas Aircraft final assembly of the then new DC-9’s.
Then the Army 1966-1968 South Korea.