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Show OLIVE O'MARA 22 2 2 down to Herald Square Hotel, the other girl and I went for a pictur . ant r m mb r h r name; never wrote it down. We rode the subway I think it was- it had to b - t Brooklyn Navy Yard and to the training school. It was excellent training. Oh for year I had all this excellent training on a projector. I could take a movie projector apart put it together again. What they wanted us girls to do was to show movies to the women. The operator had to know how a projector worked. I was not electrical work per se, but how to repair the projector, how to run it, thoroughly inside and out. The Navy yard school was attended with all men and two girls. Boy, the lights came on (laughs). This wasn't a bad assignment after all (laughs). From a small town where I had never had anycouldn't even get a date for years and years, not one good sensible date. Now here are all these guys. For some reason or another I did learn stuff and paid attention, because I carefully did it, but I knew where every guy was in that room, too. And, now, I did not date anybody there. We kept exchanging numbers and I know, "Jack Jones. I'm from Ohio. When we get out of the service or whenever we get out of this training ... " BEC: So you were prohibited from dating during this training? OLI: Not really, but there wasn't any time because when you left there you had to go back to the hotel with this girl and they were stricter than we were. We were free to go back to the hotel; they were right in the Naval yard, the Brooklyn Navy Yard. And besides, there was safety in numbers. If I started showing attention or any guy was getting too much attention, the others jumped in. All my association there was in the one room of the school and I did have enough sense to pay attention to it. You know, really, I did, I did carefully take the notes down. partly to keep focused on it. Anyway, I didn't date anybody whatsoever. I had a lot of addresses lost. But I got inspired with the 30 |
