I was wondering about when was the first time that our vast Brown Cafe audience first heard about a company called UPS? While this company first started in Seattle back in 1907, it took over a half century to expand across the entire United States, and longer than that to reach just about the rest of the world.
For me, it was about 1974 when I was a teenager. UPS came to Georgia in 1965. I used to motocross race, and my dad was one of those people who knew everybody. When Honda first started building two-stroke MX bikes, he knew the owner of Honda of Atlanta and got me one of the first of two CR125 Elsinore racing bikes in this area. If I broke something on it, I had to order parts from American Honda in Gardena, Ca. Two days later, a brown truck would pull up in front of our house with a Blue Label Air package for me. When I started my Senior year in High School, the best part time job was at UPS loading trucks at $4.25 an hour. The fast food places paid kids $2.10, so in October '75 I got hired for Peak Season and have been here ever since.
What about you?
For me, it was about 1974 when I was a teenager. UPS came to Georgia in 1965. I used to motocross race, and my dad was one of those people who knew everybody. When Honda first started building two-stroke MX bikes, he knew the owner of Honda of Atlanta and got me one of the first of two CR125 Elsinore racing bikes in this area. If I broke something on it, I had to order parts from American Honda in Gardena, Ca. Two days later, a brown truck would pull up in front of our house with a Blue Label Air package for me. When I started my Senior year in High School, the best part time job was at UPS loading trucks at $4.25 an hour. The fast food places paid kids $2.10, so in October '75 I got hired for Peak Season and have been here ever since.
What about you?