03-23-2006, 02:30 AM
"March 22, 2006 — - When 100-year-old Arthur Winston started work in 1924, Los Angeles had no freeways, and the city was made up of mostly agricultural fields and single-lane roads, many of them dirt.
"It was a little country place," Winston said. "I used to go rabbit hunting over here."
Winston has worked for the L.A.'s Metropolitan Transportation Authority for an astounding 76 years. But he started for the Pacific Electric Railway Company, which used to run the city's system of electric trains called redcars.
"I started doing janitorial work -- 41 cents an hour," he said. "At that time, I paid $17 rent on a six- or seven-room house. Gasoline was 10 gallons per dollar."
Winston, who was named employee of the century by President Clinton in 1996, retired today on his 100th birthday." http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=1756219
If Mr. Winston was a drinking man, I'd buy him a round!
"It was a little country place," Winston said. "I used to go rabbit hunting over here."
Winston has worked for the L.A.'s Metropolitan Transportation Authority for an astounding 76 years. But he started for the Pacific Electric Railway Company, which used to run the city's system of electric trains called redcars.
"I started doing janitorial work -- 41 cents an hour," he said. "At that time, I paid $17 rent on a six- or seven-room house. Gasoline was 10 gallons per dollar."
Winston, who was named employee of the century by President Clinton in 1996, retired today on his 100th birthday." http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=1756219
If Mr. Winston was a drinking man, I'd buy him a round!