Does anyone remember Naugle's? and, WHERE WAS YOUR FIRST JOB?

[bertha katzenengel]

(Strangely, it was LAUGLE's thread about Foster's Freeze that made me think of this. :hi: Laugle!)

I couldn't find an image of an old Naugles store, but they joined up w/ Del Taco in 1988. I had my first job at Del Taco, store #69 (I swear), catty-corner from my high school at Atlanta & Magnolia in Huntington Beach, CA.



Where was your first job -- the kind where you got a paycheck from which taxes were w/held?

[chicagojoe]

1. At a Clark gas station in Chicago.

[Straight Shooter]

2. My first job was at a bakery, as a cake decorator

I was 18, and it cured me forever of craving pastries :)

[Sandpiper]

3. McDonald's

For all of one week.

I then moved on to a cushy dishwasher position at Ryan's Family Steakhouse that paid 40 cents more an hour.


And yes, I do remember Naugles. We had one in my Missouri town in the early 80's. It went out of business about a year after opening.

[ret5hd]

4. busboy/dishwasher at mom/pop resaurant called Tony's...

they said i was "nice" for a clumsy kid...i tended to drop dishes.

then...
driver/parker/floor sweeper in the garage at a auto dealership...
they said i was "nice" for a clumsy kid...i tended to wreck cars.

now...
husband. she says i'm "nice" for a clumsy guy...i don't know what HER gripe is.

[RetroLounge]

5. At a Pondersosa restaurant

I've NEVER eaten there since...

RL

[DrZeeLit]

6. OMG (how original)... I remember Naugles! WOW!

My aunt lived in Huntington Beach, but didn't they have stores all over LA environs?

My first job (when I finally left the babysitting circuit) was at Sears. I started in a dinky store in Escondido, CA. Gift wrapping. I parlayed it into a viable gig -- did the entire Customer Service load: service orders, set up deliveries, ordered parts (wah hoo...microfiche), ran complaints, and when the operator had a break or lunch/dinner, I ran over and plugged the lines into the holes -- really! An old time switchboard. And it was 1968.

Wasn't withholding a shock? It was like --- HEY! Where's my money?

[bertha katzenengel]

16. Of course, like the geek I am, I have to ask:

Not what your aunt's name was (unless you care to divulge; little chance I'd've known her) but do you know what high school she went to? HB is my hometown. And yes, Naugles had stores all over So. Cali.

Your first job was at Sears? Not a bad place to start!

[DrZeeLit]

23. She only lived there later, when I was in h.s. She lived in LA mostly.

I honestly don't know what high school she went to. Actually, I called her my Aunt Alice, but she was my dad's aunt.

I used to go to the beach at Hermosa... 22nd St?
And Manhattan.

One of the guys from elementary school in Gardena moved to HB. Would have been in the Class of 69 (no lie, that's my class). Frank... I'm thinkin' Green or Greenbaum... probably wrong.

I just remember driving Coast Highway to visit my cousins in Laguna Beach. Remember Coast Highway, or are you too young?

That was before the 5 went south. Those were the days.

One night in 1970, my boyfriend and I got fed up with his room mate and we took off from Encinitas (near Oceanside) and got on Highway 1 in San Clemente and drove all the way to Malibu. Then we turned around and drove back. Got back at sunrise.

Weird what you remember, huh? I married him. Big mistake. He wasn't that romantic in real life. And I was an idiot at 18. Sheesh!

[bertha katzenengel]

24. Oh, yeah, PCH. I make it a point to drive from HB down to CDM

(Corona Del Mar) and even farther south, late at night at least one time each time I go home. W/ the windows down, even if it's cold, so I can smell the beach fires and the ocean. I'm very homesick.

Memories come back everytime a thread like this comes up. I love remembering. (Usually. :))

[DrZeeLit]

28. So, you moved, too? I moved to VT in Jun 2001.

I'm a 3rd generation native CA girl. My entire family is still there, but I really do not miss the traffic, craziness, hordes o' people, and the commercial sensory overload.

What I notice when I go back is how much stuff is in my face -- so much flashing light and billboard and big signs and so much BUY BUY BUY.

I love Vermont. It's civil and quiet and oozing with natural goodness.

[bertha katzenengel]

29. Yes, moved 4 years ago to Maryland. Culture shock here, still, and

culture shock, too, when I go back home. My family is there, too, though, and the Pacific. So I have to go back, as frequently as possible.

I want to visit VT but I'm afraid I won't want to leave.

I work in DC so I don't have a CHANCE to miss traffic, craziness, or hordes o' people. Commercial sensory overload has been replaced by tourist overload. God love 'em. . . .

I like being from California.

[DrZeeLit]

30. My students constantly ask me about CA. I like being from CA, too...

...sometimes, when I have them do some "woo woo" writing assignment (like a dialogue with their Inner Writer)... I can see the "she's from California" smirks/smiles/frowns on their fuzzy little freshmen faces.

I was just in DC. Yikes...the beltway. But maybe not as bad as 5 North outta San Diego at 4:45 pm or 15S at 8:00 a.m.

I don't miss the ocean as much as I thought I would, but I can't "do" the lake. Nope.

I would, however, like to live where I could look at water. I don't think we can afford to go back to CA, and I do NOT want to. So, we are thinking the Maine coast.

But... we do so love VT. Who knows.

[CO Liberal]

7. Allen's Mens & Boy's Wear - Morristown, NJ, 1969 - 70

It was a small clothing store ran by a older Jewish couple - Allen and Marian Davis. Allen never called me by name - he always called me "Red", because of my hair color. His wife was very nice to me, and continued giving me a 10% "employee discount" for many years after I stopped working there.

Allen was one of those old-time merchants who could look at a person and know exactly what size shirt or pants they needed. And although the store was packed from floor to ceiling with merchandise, he knew where everything was. For example, someone would come in and ask for a particular color shirt. Allen would look at them, determine what size he was and say "Red - go get the ladder." When I came over with the ladder, he'd point to a stack of boxes and tell me to climb up to them. I would and then he'd say "Now, give me the third box from the top." I'd hand that box down to Allen, and he'd open it up and produce the exact shirt the customer was looking for.

Allen's closed about 25 years ago, when Allen and his wife got too old to run the store and neither of their kids wanted to take it over. It was so sad for me to go to the going out of business sale.

[bertha katzenengel]

17. Sounds like a real old-time haberdasher.

Sounds too like fond memories.

[CO Liberal]

22. He Was

Allen had an old tredle-type sewing machine in the back that had been fitted with an electric motor. He used it to hem pants.

[all.of.me]

8. i was a lifeguard at the town pool for a summer

[MidwestMomma]

9. TG&Y store

Anyone remember those?

I still miss those stores. :)

[bertha katzenengel]

18. TG&Y!! Yeah!!

I remember that store! My mom went there all the time. It's where she got some of her her "notions" -- although how sewing supplies came to be called "notions" I'll never know.

Wow. Blast from the past!

[Massacure]

10. Was a paperboy up until two weeks ago.

The newspaper I delivered got bought up and closed by the competition. So now I need to find a new job. The only problem is that I have to find one that doesn't interfere with my after school activities.

[mourningdove92]

11. Mmmmm, Naugles. My SO and I were talking about Naugles

when we went to California over the Christmas holidays. We were wondering if they were still in business. We used to live in Lancaster, Ca.

1st job, a steak house in Lubbock Texas called The Red Lion.

[bertha katzenengel]

19. Next time you go to CA, go to Del Taco and get

a "del beef burrito" -- the nearest-tasting thing to anything Naugles had.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. KMart

met my hubby there too.

[agates]

13. At a local nursing home

Worked as a nursing assistant with one day of training for the grand wage of $3.02 per hour. Minimum wage was $3, the 2 cents was the uniform allowance!

[bertha katzenengel]

20. Tough job, agates. Good on ya.

[agates]

21. I learned a lot

And didn't kill anyone, so I guess it was a success! Thanks.

[DistressedAmerican]

14. Fuck Yeah! Awsome Cheese Burritos! The Cheeziest!

Worked as a stock boy/bagger at a grocery store...

[samilib]

15. I worked at a daycare.

I was not with kids most of the time. I was mostly cleaning, helping to prepare snacks, and just helping out in general. On a funny note, I did learn at that daycare that when one baby cries, they all cry.

[Technowitch]

25. First actual job? Bakery.

Saturday clean-up crew. Gawd, that was a thankless, terrible job, and the bakery owner was a complete jerk. With a violent temper.

2nd job, waitress/cook/dishwasher at a Friendly's Restaurant.

Prior to that I had a paper route, baby-sitting gigs, and (believe it or not) I cleaned up dog-poop from people's yards. (Back in the 70s, I could get $5/hr for the last one, so it was actually WELL worth it!)

[solinvictus]

26. First job..

I was an Army Reservist at 17, then at 19, I got a part-time job in a rent to own store owned by a husband and wife. I handled deliveries, floor sales, and repossessions. I started out at a princely sum of $3.50/hour in 1989.

[JanMichael]

27. My first legit job was mowing around tombstones.

The big mowers only did so much so I had to mow around the stones.

Yipppeee! That was blast.