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  F Sheff at Work
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5. 1937 - 1953

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1953 American Standard Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance CA
Summer Labor Gang

• Clean silt trenches
  
• Collect, sort, and stack unoccupied pallets and materials
• Soak and prepare molds
  
• Place and remove raw ware in and from ovens
  
• Open molds and remove ware for processing
  
• Pack accessories for shipment
  
• Pack ware for shipment
  
• Load boxcars and trucks with packaged ware
  
• Forget altogether how I traveled to work here, although I remember my badge number (839)
• Perpetrate a deceptive "D'oh" act for several weeks
  
• Learn the odor of uncleanliness and alcoholism
  
• Learn of the dignity of labor and laborers
  
• Learn of the duplicity and narrow-mindedness of managers
  
• Eat a pint of coffee ice-cream after work every payday
  
• This may have been the summer of '55 and the car a '49 Ford

1948 - 1953 Self-employed   2040 W. 182nd Street, Torrance CA Farmer

• Arise at "Oh-Dark-Thirty" (4:30 AM)
  
• Breed, raise and sell chickens and rabbits
  
• Sell eggs
  
• Collect, remove and distribute other animal byproducts
  
• Plant, cultivate, raise, and sell corn, green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, and figs
  
• Kill gophers, sparrows, and flies with a Daisy® Red Ryder® Carbine
  
• Raise calves, dig holes for burial of innards
  
• Raise mushrooms in ancient cowbarn
  
• Care for horse
  
• Maintain security and cleanliness of the property and vehicles
  
• Do a little extra work at the local mink and chinchilla farm
  
• Do a little extra work with Uncle Andy, toting bags of water softener salt, servicing softeners in Beverly Hills and Bel Air
  
• Vehicles: Shank's mare, inefficient and ugly balloon-tired bicycle, and school busses

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