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Show LE LIE ERI TEA DALE Augu t 16 2001 W ton projects· a project manager. he's doing very well. But anyway, Graham, her husband, wanted to keep-they wanted to stay where they were. o he took a job making tin in some tin factory. He took a job as a driving instructor. He did anything just to make a living so that they could keep out there. We used to go over nearly every year. We made enough money at this guesthouse to get a ticket every Christmas because there hardly was any business. We used to shut the guesthouse. We'd fly over to San Francisco. We'd spend four weeks over here, over Christmas and the New Year, and we'd go back in January stony broke. We'd spent all our profits that we'd made at this guesthouse. And after about ten years-no, we were only seven years at the guesthouse-I said, "We can't go on like this. We're not making any money. We're not getting anywhere." So, in the meantime, our daughter had become a citizen. And she said to me, "Dad, if you want to come over here to live I can sponsor you now." And I said, "I actually fancy living in America." We'd been over quite a few times, so we knew what it was like. And we enjoyed it. And we thought we could fit in with the American people. So we sold our guesthouse, and packed everything up, and we sent most of our stuff over. We didn't send a lot, but we had to ship a lot of it over. And they came out here in '69, and we came out in '70 to San Francisco. Within three weeks I was working at a hotel, Dumphrey's Hotel, on the 101 freeway, which looked like an English castle. And I got a job because I was English. And the manager said, "Oh, you'll fit in with the decor." So, I said, "Where's the limousine that you said I was going to drive because I used to drive for Hertz." So, she said, 45 |
