Tempe High School Class of 1969

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Tempe High School Class of 1969 - First Job

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Body:	<i>It wasn't a first job, but was one of the ways kids in Tempe could make money when we were growing up -- doing concessions at ASU during football games. Seems like you had to be at least 13 because I remember starting in 8th grade. I usually sold Pepsi, Team, and Sprite, though you could also sell popcorn and peanuts. We'd get there early, taking warm clothes (later in the fall), $5.10, and an old sock. The money was for buying your first rack of drinks, which you'd carry up and down the stands yelling 'Pepsi! Team! Sprite!', one or some of them invariably sloshing out of the lid and getting you sticky. They were heavy, too! If you sold them all, you then had $6.00. Put 90 cents in the sock, tie it around your belt, then go back up to the top and buy another rack. On and on. Sometimes there'd be a whole group of people wanting drinks (to add shots of other liquids to). One person in the group wound up organizing, so you'd start handing out drinks, and just hope that they collected what you were owed. And sometimes they tipped. After a night of this, we'd be tired and hoarse, the sock heavy with coins, maybe sixteen, seventeen bucks, and we'd be hungy. So we'd head over to Pete's Fish 'n Chips for a huge 15 cent plate of fries (Damn the complexion!). Then home on our bikes. It still amazes me that we had so much freedom to ride around on our bikes -- eighth graders roaming around town at 9:30 at night. It was a smaller, safer time. It was a great time!</i> *
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