Preston Porath, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, May 24, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 248 and 249

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PRE TO PORAT PRE: BEC: No. That was his father's interpretation! (laughs) Oh, okay. So this is just folklore that's come down. 24, 20 1 PRE: He promoted it to four! No, I could only do one egg in each hand. I never saw a fellow do four eggs at one time and keep the shells out of the flour. BEC: Okay, all right. Well, we've settled that old rumor, then. PRE: Yeah. That's just a rumor. That's his dad's rumor (laughs). So we'd sit down and do two, three cases at a time, you know. But the duty there at the base, you were not assigned permanently there so you'd goof off as much as you could and sleep in as much as you could. But I'd go into San Francisco every night. I worked at the bake shop at a bakery there, Langendorf Bakery in San Francisco, some nights to earn a little extra money to spend downtown. BEC: And you were permitted to do that? PRE: Well, I don't know whether we were permitted or not, but we did. A lot of the guys went to work as longshoremen because the longshoremen were shorthanded because of the draft. The bake shops were short of hands each night. After you got through with work, they'd pay you, so you'd get money every night because the next night you may be out, you may be out to sea the next night. BEC: Right, yeah. That's interesting. PRE: So they'd pay you every night. Then I started dating a girl there in San Francisco, so I needed a little extra money. Actually it was a girl I met at the USO where they used to hold dances. I loved to dance and went there and danced. You couldn't take them home, but you could make dates with them for other nights when they weren't working. They weren't supposed to date right off the dance floor there. So she 17