Slight correction. I recall that my first job was as a dishwasher at a restaurant that had just opened. They asked me what I wanted to do and being shy I said "dishwasher". I did not think I could handle working with the public. The late hours and the heat of the dishwashing machine was a little too much to handle.
I started there the summer of 1977 and then got a job at Bower's Mansion in Washoe Valley handling a small food provider. "Handling" as the partners with the contract kind of left me and a woman there to do the work while they covered the softball diamond concession they also a contract for.
The dishwasher job was with the Rapscallion Restaurant which is now probably the best fish place in Reno, Nevada. It opened in 1977.
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Still want to try their food sometime at the Rapscallion in Reno, Nevada.
I worked at the partnership's various interests until Memorial Day of 1983 where I was at Bower's Mansion when the nearby Davis Creek park was hit with a mudslide. I left very soon after that to drive to Denver and start a Master's Program at the U of Denver.
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Memories of tragedies. Memorial Day 1983 Mudslide.