"Are these checks going to bounce like all of mine do?" TO BE PAID BACK IN TEN YEARS, IF YOU CAN, WITH NO INTEREST. THIS IS FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU, SO THAT YOUR DREAMS CAN COME TRUE. The other customers that totaled $50,000, and a note that read: Restaurant, he came up to the counter and handed me a personal check for $2,000, a bunch of other checks and commitments from I told Fred about having asked my parents for a $20,000 loan.įred ate his breakfast and then talked to some of the other customers I’d been waiting on all those years. "What’s wrong, sunshine? You don’t look happy," he said. The next day at work, a man I had been waiting on for seven years, Fred Hasbrook, noticed that I wasn’t my usual cheerful I stayed at theīuttercup Bakery, where I made about $400 a month, until 1980, when I was twenty-nine years old. I was an official college graduate, working as a waitress. I got my degree from the University of Illinois.
I faced up to my shame of not having finished college and took Spanish classes at Hayward State University. When it was time to move on, I applied for a job as a waitress at the Buttercupīakery, a great little place where we used to get our coffee. We worked as tree clearers for two months, living out of the vanĪnd using a friend’s home nearby to shower. Jobs-working for Coley Tree Service for $3.50 an hour. He pointed me to the boss, and before we knew it Laurie and I had landed our first I got out of the van to watch and walked up to the man with the red flag andĪsked him if they needed any help. Hills killed many of the eucalyptus trees. With a red flag who held up traffic so trees that had been cut down could be cleared. As we drove through the hills on the day of our arrival, we were stopped by a man Sherry and Vicky jumped out in Los Angeles, but Laurie and IĬontinued on to Berkeley, California. With $300Īnd a converted van to my name, we set out to see America. I convinced three friends-Laurie, Sherry, and Vicky-to come with me I was way too scared to try this on my own. (a great friend to this day), converted the van into a place I could sleep during the drive across country. I borrowed $1,500 from my brother to buy a Ford Econoline van and, with the help of my friend Mary Corlin If I had trouble with English, what made me think IĬould learn a foreign language? I decided to leave school without my degree. Once again, it was the shame of my grade-school years holding me back. I was supposed to graduate in 1973, but my degree was withheld because I hadn’t Judy and John got married and the rest is history, but that’s a story for Who went on to superstardom on Saturday Night Live. John Belushi, and the four of us had quite the adventure for the next three years. In my second year, I shared a one-bedroom apartment offĬampus with two friends I had met in the dorm, Carole Morgan and Judy Jacklin. In the dormitory’s dish room seven days a week to pay the bills. Why not take the easy way out? Why try harder?ĭuring my first year at the University of Illinois, I lived in the Florida Avenue Residences in room 222 and worked Why not try something easier?" I did a little investigation and found out that the easiest major was social work, so I signed up for that.
I told him that I wanted to become a brain surgeon. Suzanne said: “We are putting some finishing touches to our new café menu and are looking forward to welcoming new customers to our business and letting them try the Buttercup range.Counselor who asked me what I wanted to study. The Buttercup Bakery brand enjoys an existing and enthusiastic customer base built-up over many years, having been a regular at Haverhill market and is known across Essex and other food focused markets. Paul Vella, MENTA’s property manager, said: “The new site has several newly opened retail units as well as our existing business tenants – we are all looking forward to the aroma of freshly baked bread and the extra visitors the new café will bring to the business centre.”īrad said: “The new site is something we have considered for some time and now we feel is the best time to join the growing business communities based around the Hollands Road area, we will have a deliberately very chilled environment, allowing for workers to stop off for lunch, check emails and refuel on a fresh espresso coffee.” Yesterday they had a launch party, where visitors were able enjoy some of the delights offered by the bakery, such as a freshly baked bagel, their famed coffee and walnut cake and an espresso coffee.įrom their new home, the couple will be selling hand-crafted breads, bagels, pastries, and a selection of sandwiches.
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