June 25, 2011
June is almost Gone!
How time goes so fast …when you’re having fun or when you have limited choices of things to do!
I may have told you before in previous Blogs here in my Dr. Dave’s Memories, but I am writing a book filled with all of the material and memories I have included in this Blog. I have saved the pages of the book in Microsoft Publisher, (Print Publication) and find that I can transfer the stories from MS Publisher to this Blog fairly easily and also find that the photos also transfer.
In this Blog instead of picking up where I left off with my job at the LeFebure Corporation in Cedar Rapids about 1975 I am going to share with you some special events that I remember. These may not be in any particular order, but I will try and let you know where in my past they occurred.
The first one is from my days at the University of South Dakota where I began my college days. This was about 1959 and 1960.
This first event I labeled the “Hot Dog Machine”. It is an event that stands out in my mind that my roommate and I did about the same time we were developing the “Denny and Dave” radio show.
I would like to share a story about the “hotdog” machine with you. After we returned from Christmas the first year (1959), Denny brought an electric hotdog maker that he had gotten from his parents. You could attach a hotdog to each end of two carbon pointed rods. Plugging it in completed the electrical circuit and would cook the hotdog.
We lived directly across the street from the student Memorial Union that served sandwiches and many other short order meals. Each evening about 8 PM they would cook hamburgers and bring them to the dorm to sell. I think they sold for 20 cents.
Denny and I got the idea of going into business with our hotdog machine. We went to the store and purchased a couple of packages of uncooked hotdogs and fresh hotdog buns, a bottle of ketchup and a jar of mustard.
We started by going around to our friends on our floor of the dorm. Before we knew it we were so busy making and selling hotdogs because we sold them for 15 cents, 5 cents less than the hamburgers being sold by the Student Union.
We had to quit because we were not getting our studying done. We each earn 10 dollars from the hotdog sales profit and the sale of the machine.
