At times my ability to recall events and even words spoken, is amazing. At other times I find it difficult to put things into any order and decipher when certain things happened. The time spent behind the Oxford bar seems to roll into one dark pool of disgust and loathing. At first I was barely aware of the poker games that were going on in the establishment. Continue reading The haze of history
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So ya wanna be a bartender…
The OX was open 24 hours a day. The bar was open from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. and food was served 24 hours a day. The OX’s claim to fame was Brains & Eggs and listed on the Menu, as ‘He needs em.’ Continue reading So ya wanna be a bartender…
I got a JOB! The Montana Daze
October of 1978 found my ex (we were shacking up for a few years after divorce to see if we could patch it up) heading for northwestern Montana from Hawaii. My sis, Vickie (yuppers, the truck driving land mate of today), and her family lived in Missoula. She was willing to give us a place to stay while we got our feet on the ground. And we jumped…right into the basement of her place, no furniture and only the bags we packed from Hawaii…lounging on the floor and walls just like the cockroaches we had left behind in Hawaii. We had no money and nowhere to go. Continue reading I got a JOB! The Montana Daze