So mentioned my job as a waiter at Delmonico's (in the Galleria Plaza Hotel, at that time it was a Westin hotel) in her post of Sunday. One morning when I showed up for work they were photographing it for the hotel brochure. So there I am, on the left hand side, pouring water. In the middle is Amal, our Egyptian manager. She had red finger nails with the moons painted silver. She was a tyrant, but she and I always got along well and were really friendly. The blond on the right is my friend, Terry. Terry wore Candie's no back high heels and had a great rack. In fact she used to strip at the Tattooed Lady in Montrose (it's now a gay bar, The Montrose Mining Company). My first day, when she arrived and someone pointed me out as the new waiter, she exclaimed, "Oh goodie! A homosexual!" Needless to say we were great friends. The kitchen staff used to freak, knowing I was gay, when I would put my hands under her apron and grab her tits. They were most confused.
Anyway, it was a great place to work and I worked lunches only. That was during Houston's oil boom and the money was great. I think I worked 24 hours a week. Rent and life were cheap back in those days.
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I can remember you working only lunch and bringing home $100 cash. I think I was making maybe $2.85 at the time per hour and the thought of that kind of money left me speechless, which was really something for me in those days.
Remember how sometimes Mark and I would come in and have drinks, free of course, and anything that didn't have to be cooked you could get it for nothing. Such fun!
I loved that picture, it's just how I remember you, very handsome I must say. I also remember that "fake" dessert cart. At first I thought they were real until you told me. I had so much to learn back then. How did I ever make it????
Thanks for sharing that piece of your life with us.
That is an interesting story. Thanks for telling it. I especially had to laugh about the kitchen staff and their confusion.
What a fantastic picture. It looks so authentic, almost like it is taken from a scene on a movie set. The color and people in the scene are almost not real.
And seeing you in there, wow! Thanks for sharing this piece of your life with us.
So, I don't know where you got the information that the dessert cart was fake, because we sold straight off it and onto the table. Maybe too much stinkweed?
Stinkweed doesn't sound like a very good dessert.
I still think you would have looked better in tight black waiter's pants.
Hmmmm interesting story..Thanks for sharing with us.
keep up the work.
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that looks like a swanky joint. i used to be a banquet server at the omni hotel in charlotte, and waited tables in the restaurant when i needed extra cash.
that is where i learned to set a table properly and fold napkins into fancy shapes. i reckon you can say i'm cultured now. or not.
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