I washed toilets in Ithaca while in graduate school -- housecleaning for a
couple of families, and seasonal cleanup on apartments, at the beginning and
end of leases.  You talk of standards!  Ha!!

My favorite Dewitt indulgence was the orange/honey/almond granola from the
health food store (name forgotten).  I was a much healthier eater back then.

Maura

-----Original Message-----
From: Pam Blythe <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, August 27, 1999 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: Ithaca - full circle, with clean dishes


>Well, being also an Ithaca native (only follows, since I'm ][<en's little
>sister), I can say that I washed dishes at a little house in a small town
>just outside of Ithaca, called Besemer.  Not up to the standards of the
>rest of you, but I had my share of cleaning up after my father (who also
>happened to do something electrical at the synchrotron - I like Creighton's
>dad's idea.  I have a jug of Round Up to finish using with my sprayer, so
>let me know when you're ready).
>
>Although I went to Jr. High at the new Dewitt Jr. High School, I used to
>hang out at the old one after it became the Dewitt Mall - thought the
>toilets that flushed automatically once you stood up were cool - not like
>the new fangled electric eye ones in many shopping malls, theaters and
>airports across the country these days.  It was a little disconcerting the
>first time the seat moved when I sat down, though).  Been to the Moosewood
>a lot of times and have many of their cookbooks.  Never found a recipe for
>sheet.  Unfortunately, the Samadhara was gone when I was there in December.
>I missed the smells!
>
>- Pam
>---------------------- Forwarded by Pam Blythe on 08/27/99 05:40 PM
>---------------------------
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>The memory of the synchrotron reminded me of
>my childhood also wandering around in labs full of mystery...
>My late dad once
>had a plan to follow the course of the ring of the synchrotron, which was
>built under an athletic field, with round up ( a herbicide). He figured a
>large, slightly toasted looking shadow, would have lots of phones ringing.
>
>I washed dishes at IC 30 years ago.
>---------------------- Forwarded by Pam Blythe on 08/27/99 05:40 PM
>---------------------------
>
>Ken Follett writes:
>
>
>Me to.
>
>][<en
>---------------------- Forwarded by Pam Blythe on 08/27/99 05:40 PM
>---------------------------
>
>
>Cuyler Page <[log in to unmask]> on 08/24/99 03:07:38 AM
>I too washed dishes, at Cornell's Home Ec. Caf., 42 years ago.
>
>---------------------- Forwarded by Pam Blythe on 08/27/99 05:40 PM
>---------------------------
>Ken Follett writes:
>Had friends at Samadhara & the Guitar Workshop.
>
>][<en
>---------------------- Forwarded by Pam Blythe on 08/27/99 05:40 PM
>---------------------------
>
>
>Bruce Marcham <[log in to unmask]> on 08/24/99 11:32:12 AM
>In my DeWitt Junior High School days (cc '66-'70) the Moosewood was a...
>
>P.S.  I did my dishwashing at Camp Barton, the Boy Scout camp north of
>Taughannock Falls State Park on Cayuga Lake, though a woman on my paper
>route, Galetti Chacona (Greek, I think, or maybe Italian), with connections
>in the restaurant business offered to get me a dishwashing job if I wanted
>it...