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Sad news to report from Gordan Mitchell
Gordan writes...

Gordan Mitchell writes...

Recently, I was diagnosed with AAADD:
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests:

I decided to wash my car.
As I start toward the garage, I spotted the mail on
the hall table.
I should go through the mail before I wash the car.
I lay the car keys on the table, put the junk mail in
the trash can under the table, and notice that the
trash can is full.
So, I put the bills back on the table and take out the
trash first.
Since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out
the trash anyway, I might as well pay the bills first.

I see my checkbook on the table, but there is only one
check left.
My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go
to my desk,  where I find the bottle of juice that I
had been drinking.
I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to
push the juice aside so that I don't accidentally
knock it over.
But the juice is getting warm, and should be put in
the refrigerator to keep it cold.
Heading toward the kitchen with the juice, a vase of
flowers on the counter catches my eye. They need to be
watered. I set the juice down on the counter, and find
my reading glasses, for which I've been searching all
morning. I had better put them back on my desk,
but first I'm going to water the flowers. I set the
glasses back down on the counter,  fill a container
with water,  and suddenly spot the TV remote.  Someone
left it on the kitchen table.
Tonight when we sit down to watch TV,  we will be
looking for the remote, but nobody will remember that
it's on the kitchen table.
I should put it back in the den where it belongs, but
first I'll water the flowers.  I splash some water on
the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor.
So, I put the remote back down on the table, and get
some towels to wipe up the spill.
Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I
was planning to do.
At the end of the day: the car isn't washed, the bills
aren't paid,
there is a warm bottle of juice sitting on the
counter, the flowers aren't watered, there is still
only one check in my checkbook, I can't find the
remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember
what I did with the car keys.
I'm trying to figure out why nothing got done today;
it's quite baffling because I know I was busy all day
long, and I'm really tired.
I know this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get
some help for it,
but first I'll check my e-mail.
Do me a favor, will you?
Forward this message to whoever you think might enjoy
it,
because I don't remember who I've already sent it to.

Send donations to ....!!!!!!!

Gordan Mitchell writes...
One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of
the rascally behavior that was going on. He decided to
send an angel down to Earth to check it out. So he
called one of his angels and sent the angel to Earth
for a time. When the angel returned, she told God,
"Yes, it is bad on Earth; 95% are misbehaving and 5%
are not." He thought for a moment and said, "Maybe I
had better send down a second angel to get another
opinion." So God called another angel and sent her to
Earth for a time too. When the angel returned she went
to God and said "Yes the Earth is in decline, 95% are
misbehaving and 5% are being good." God was not
pleased. So He decided to E-MAIL the 5% that were good
because He wanted to encourage them and give them a
little something to help them keep going. Do you know
what that E-MAIL said?

OH, you did not get one either, huh?

Didn't think so!!
 

Mike I use to drive through Teds in my 37 Buick then I got a 50
Mercury that I wish I still had.LOL I worked at a resturant at the
airport called The Hanger Gril, then I worked at Bermingham Plastics
for awhile then at Fisher Body for about three monts then I headed
for California. I took a job in a print shop untill I could find
something in Banking but I have been in printing ever sense. I have
owened two printing companies. One in Anaheim and one in Costa Mesa,
California. At the present time I am supervisoring a night shift in a
printing shop and helping my wife run her company. I plan on retiring
in a year and work with her. We work very good with each other. It
seem like just yesterday I left Michigan.

1st tax withholding was 1950 at the Drayton Plains bowling Alley. 
Set pins for league bowling thru the week and open bowling on the
weekends.  2nd was Neisner Bros. 5 and 10 cent store at .56 cents an
hour as a stock boy on the weekends. 3rd Delivered the Detroit Times
(26 dailys) between Dixie, Sashabaw, Walton and Seebaldt. And 150
Sunday deliverys (usually from the running board of our 1931 model A
coupe. Area covered Loon Lake, Lake Oakland, Woodhull Lake areas out
to Maybee along the Sashabaw Rd. Back down to Walton then home. 4th
Worked for the little Krogers Store as the only stock/carryout boy on
Friday evenings and Saturday all day. Store was in Drayton Plns @
Frembes and Dixie Hwy. Store manager was Thelma Tucker's(class
of '55) dad. My Step-Father was the butcher. Also worked @ Krogers
downtown Pontiac as Carryout, Produce, then Meat Dept. making ground
beef.  Is that enough for the archives?  Or is it toooooooo much. All
this between the ages of 12yrs and 15 yrs.
Jerry Bush'56

Mike, If memory serves, Wasn't the Western Auto Store right near the
Presbyterian Church where Oakland Ave. and Saginaw split?  There was
a large parking lot near there next to the Kroger store. And between
western Auto and Simms was a very small Sears store (almost like a
catalog store)bought some snowtires for my New '60 Pontiac
Convertible and had them installed downstairs @ their garage out
back.  Also near Simms was the White Castle hamburger place. open 24
hours and what a way to sober up on 10cent hamburgers.
Jerry Bush '56

OK,  you have talked me into telling my first job. The first one was
at Rottegers market on Voorhies. I worked there for a couple of
summers. There was a butcher there named John I think (help me out
here Phil) that made "City Chicken". Some kind of meat on a stick. It
was great!!  Another of my early jobs was flipping pizzas at the
White Swan restuant on M-59 at Pontiac Lk Rd. We would make about 120
on a Friday and Saturday and about 90 to 100 on a Sunday. We ate our
mistakes (which were many). For some reason I still really like
pizza. There was a window at the drive in and people used to sit in
their cars and watch us. The White Swans pizza was almost as good as
Rocco's.
Butch Trager

I think you're right about the store being Simms.  My Mom worked there for
years. I worked there part-time holidays during college.  That store was
great when I married and had my boys.  Mom would go thru the merchandise
when it came in and get clothes for the boys at cost. Boy did I miss that
when they closed down.

My first job, other than babysitting, was summers while I was in college. 
Worked at Pontiac General Hospital (now known as North Oakland Medical
Center) as a "bedmaker". Made beds after patients were discharged, passed
water pitchers, and food trays.  Now all this extra work is done by the
nursing staff. I enjoyed working in the hospital setting. After
discovering that teaching wasn't for me after college, I wound up back in
hospitals doing billing.

Dru WKHS '63

I'm way too young to remember any of this firsthand, you understand,
but nobody has mentioned Waites Department Store on the NE corner of
Huron and Saginaw (I think), the Federals Dept. Store on the west
side of Saginaw, or even the Courthouse on the corner. How about
Osmun's Mens Store, where you also bought Tigers tickets ($3.00 for
box seats, $2.00 for reserved).  It was always strange to go to a
game and see people you knew all around you, since they bought their
tickets there, as well.

My first "real" job was at the Big Valu grocery store at the south
end of the business district.  It had been a Wrigley's, but got
downgraded to their lower line as the area declined. By that time,
a lot of the buildings were empty, such as the State and Orpheum
Theaters--the Oakland Theater had burned down about that time. What
had been the Lions Store next to (north of) the grocery store had
become a series of sleazy family-owned furniture stores that held
perpetual "goin-out-of-business" sales, and then re-opened with a
different relative listed as the owner.  Ah, the good ol' days!

Herb Harroun
WTHS '64

My first real paying job was at Hinkleys 5 & 10 store. It was
located where Harwoods Tuxedo is on Huron st. I was 12 years old. I
don't think they even had work permits back then. I would go there
each day after school and sweep the floors. I had to spread this red
sawdust down then sweep it all up. It kept the dust down. I also had
to wash the windows a couple times a week. Some of the side benifits
was each month the store had to send the unsold Comic books back to
the publisher. I had to take just the front cover off to be sent back
and I could take home any comics I wanted. I would take one of each
home.  I also was alowed one piece of candy each day from the candy
counter which was all bulk back then. I liked the ones covered in
Chocolate with the white fillings. I did that for about a year before
I started cadding. Phil tnkid '56 WTHS

My first job was washing dishes at The Hanger Grill it was located
at the Pontiac Airport.

The Western auto was just North of the Sears store and I
thought the Sears store was Big. It had an upstairs, main floor and
the Basement as you pointed out with the auto section out back.  The
"White Tower" Burger place was next door. to the south. I remember
being in there once when I guy came in ordered a glass of warm water
then put ketsup in it to make tomatoe soup!  Simms was just south of
the White Tower.They were all on the east side of the street and
Federals was built across from Simms. Years later the Western Auto
moved up on Huron near Franklin by the funeral home and across the
street from the XXX hamburger place. Phil '56