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Show ROBERT THAYER D B 2 02 ROB: You talk about old age when we get into an area of my rv1c 1n military, why I want to tell you about our chaplain, but I'll wait and tell you that. BEC: Oh, okay. So you graduated from East High School and you started attending school at the- ROB: At the University. And I didn't graduate, but I had nearly three-and-a-half- well, counting it all, I had pretty close to four years up there. And most of it was in civil engineering, because at that time I was working with my granddad and my uncle in the trucking and excavating business, and I drove truck right after I got out of high school. I drove a big dump truck. In fact, my uncle took me down, put me in that and showed me how to do everything, took me on one trip, and then turned it over to me, and I hadn't even driven a passenger car as far as that. So that's how I learned to drive (laughs). BEC: ROB: BEC: ROB: BEC: On the job (laughs). On the job. That must have been exciting. It must have been fun, though. Yeah. I remembered what I wanted to ask you-and this is getting off the track, but I want to ask you before I forget-what restaurant did your father operate? ROB: The Mint Cafe downtown. And it was a cafe that catered to kind of the sporting group, you know. They sold tickets to all the sporting events, like the fights, the boxing and wrestling and they even had, I think, some of the University tickets down there. And they catered mostly to men. There were very, very few women that went in 5 |
