[Tim]

Where id you first work in MC?

My first job was at the Pirate Ship when I was 14. This was a pizza restaurant that was near the Holiday Inn - part of the front of it was shaped like the back end of a pirate ship. I was good at washing dishes - not so good at making pizzas. This was, however where I learned that when washing windows your best bet for n streaks is to dry with newspaper - so one good thing came out of it.

What about you?

[Southsider2k12]

I worked in the Pottawattomie Park Pro Shop for Jack Seyring. I loved that job.

[kharris]

I worked in the Pottawattomie Park Pro Shop for Jack Seyring. I loved that job.

Not counting paper routes that I started at about 11 years old, my first job was for Schneiders Key shop at age 13 down on I believe 5th street.

[ChickenCityRoller]

Family bidness at age nine cleaning machinery on the weekends and after hours. In Indiana you can work for a family business at ANY age or at least that used to be the law. First summer job outside the plant:



"LASERS ON THE DUNES!"

[JHeath]

Not counting the many babysitting jobs that I had starting at age 13, I worked at National Record Mart at Marquette Mall (starting at 16). What a cool first job for a teenager...

[Ang]

I had two first jobs:

I worked at Memorial Hospital as the switchboard operator. A week later I got hired at Chess King. My shift at the hosptial was same all the time and I only worked two 8 hour shifts a week, so I had plenty of time to spend at the mall.

I was 15.

[Dave]

"LASERS ON THE DUNES!"

OK, I have to know what this was. Laser tag? Light show? ???

[Southsider2k12]

OK, I have to know what this was. Laser tag? Light show? ???

They did a laser light show out on the NIPSCO tower for a while IIRC.

[edgeywood]

First Michigan City job was at Gateway Industries, on the assembly line, making seat belts. It inspired me to go back to college!

[Tim]

They did a laser light show out on the NIPSCO tower for a while IIRC.

When was this?

[RedDevilMC]

My first job was at Harvey's Dine Store and then next door to that at Hook's Drug Store on Michigan Blvd.

[Ang]

When I was a little girl, grandma used to give me two nickels and take me to Harvey's Five & Dime. Oh Man! That was such an awsome treat!

[ChickenCityRoller]

When was this?

In the 80's. The entry was over by the tracks in the S turns by Mount Baldy. Bricker was the one who started it up. He had a bunch of highschool kids running the place. You'd park your car right there in the lot and then hike through the dunes. They had a booth west of the tower where the lasers were and they'd project cartoon like laser images on the west face of the tower that went along to corny music. Myself along with a bunch of my friends worked there. I eventually quit because I realized it made more sense to work days in the shop rather than at night. A lot of my friends got screwed over by the owner because he never paid them for the last month of thier work.

[Dave]

In the 80's. The entry was over by the tracks in the S turns by Mount Baldy. Bricker was the one who started it up. He had a bunch of highschool kids running the place. You'd park your car right there in the lot and then hike through the dunes. They had a booth west of the tower where the lasers were and they'd project cartoon like laser images on the west face of the tower that went along to corny music. Myself along with a bunch of my friends worked there. I eventually quit because I realized it made more sense to work days in the shop rather than at night. A lot of my friends got screwed over by the owner because he never paid them for the last month of thier work.

I like this idea -- use the cooling tower to show movies or cartoons, broadcast the sound by radio like they do on the highway for traffic info ("tune in to 530 am for traffic updates"). Seems to me the cost could be pretty low (heck, use old cartoons now out of copyright, or even do silent movies and skip the radio part).

[Tim]

I like this idea -- use the cooling tower to show movies or cartoons, broadcast the sound by radio like they do on the highway for traffic info ("tune in to 530 am for traffic updates"). Seems to me the cost could be pretty low (heck, use old cartoons now out of copyright, or even do silent movies and skip the radio part).

I guess porno wouldn't work.

[Roger Kaputnik]

Cleaning the shelves at Al's on Mich Blvd. Take stuff off, clean, put it back. The whole store. At nights, when the stockers were there. Good, clean fun.

[Marram]

Patching the big flat roof of Fiberbond during summers between school years.

Then when I graduated from ND, and while I waited ten months until I shipped out for the Peace Corps, there were a plethora of jobs: night shift as a psychiatric tech at Kingwood, weekends as a server at the Holiday Inn banquet hall, substitute teacher, staff writer for the News-Dispatch, and assistant Coach for the Barker Jr High wrestling team. Not much sleep during that time period.

[BioTeach]

I worked two jobs during the summer I turned 16. One was at Performance Engineered Products in the Pines where I pulled orders in a warehouse. I also was a store clerk at Vernier China.

[Beachgirl77]

I worked two jobs during the summer I turned 16. One was at Performance Engineered Products in the Pines where I pulled orders in a warehouse. I also was a store clerk at Vernier China.

I always wanted to go to that china place! Was it really cool inside?

[BioTeach]

I always wanted to go to that china place! Was it really cool inside?

Yes and no. The clock room and the china were beautiful. The store also had a wholesale business on the side, however, and sold a lot of junk as well. They had a lot of bargain figurines and such.