Mikey P
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Didn't Lee's Ed York sponsored journeys take him through Central CA?
Pretty sure Jim was conceived on this Davenport..
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I'd like to think I was born in early 70's when they started working together, but that's over 10 years too late buddy.
I was already cleaning carpet, rugs, upholstery, and stripping and waxing floors by the time they met.
Damn....I'm getting old
I was already cleaning carpet, rugs, upholstery, and stripping and waxing floors by the time they met.
Damn....I'm getting old
bob vawter
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Jim..I believe getting older is way way
Better than Not getting older
Better than Not getting older
I always say............when ever your eyes open in the morning...........it's going to be a good...........day!
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As long as Bob Vawter and Keith Richards remain, I have hope for tomorrow.
Seriously, I hit 61 in a few weeks, and never feel it ...until I look in a #(%&* mirror.
You young kids have a fun Independence Day. I'll be somewhere beyond cell range by sunrise tomorrow.
I still feel like I’m in my 20’s, until I start hanging out with 20-year-olds
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Lee Stockwell
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I warned my sons in their early 20's "you can't play football with the teenagers any more, THEY don't have to go to work tomorrow".
Jack Benny was right, 39 was the golden year.
Jack Benny was right, 39 was the golden year.
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Dang, first time I met Lee Pemberton was in Fresno CA, fall of 1979. (Home of the maker of that davenport.)
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Yeah, but how many will open their eyes in the morning?
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What in the heck were you doing in Fresno California?
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Fresno was the New Jerusalem of the cleaning industry in those days.
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Not a crook....a brilliant, likely bipolar, megalomaniac, with the speaking skills of a televangelist and the cold blooded calculation of a robber baron who saw the cleaning industry as deserving a better place in the business world than where it was placed.
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His reasons might be known by those who stood closer to the altar than did I.
He taught me a lot but I kept my distance and surely avoided conversations with him.
I know that it was the home of his supply house, Steam Services.
He taught me a lot but I kept my distance and surely avoided conversations with him.
I know that it was the home of his supply house, Steam Services.
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Must have been a woman involved...
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For all his faults, Ed seemed very devoted to Wanda. What she saw in him is beyond my ken.
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Went to Fresno to Steam Services to hear Lee P. speak on disaster restoration. (This was when Steve Brandt was president of Steam Services and before he became president of Hydramaster.) It was my first CC class and this 29 year old was very hungry for info. (Started my biz when about 23 with a Von Schrader--fun times but very little cc info was available.) So glad I went. Was great to rub elbows with other cleaners, etc. Learned about Grandi Groomers and much other good stuff. Lee was great in the class and we even had lunch together one day. Ed was crazy as usual. It was fun hearing Ed talk, too. I remember something about the "peanut butter method" of cleaning carpets, LOL! Ed was attempting to divest us all of "steam cleaning religion" or something like that. Even Desk Jockey (Richard) took the same class when Lee went his way during his educational travels. Hey Jim P.! Did dad have you working yet?
After Fresno went to San Fran for a few days to find out what that city was about and to chill out. The wharf was the best!
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Yes. I first assisted him in cleaning carpet in a commercial job in 1968; mostly filling and emptying buckets of solution and being a general "gopher". Sitting on his scrubber to add weight on difficult floor stripping jobs was my favorite though.
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When I first got into the business we were using scrubbers and wet vacs. We used to always give the little kids rides on the scrubbers. Probably get sued if we did that today.
Lee Stockwell
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My kids all rode the buffer at one time or another. Theresa and I were in our 20s with several "helpers" in tow. Though they were well behaved I don't think I'd have done that in these times.
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Just for the record, I lasted about 2 years with Von Schrader, then one of my customers said "Is that all there is"? while pointing at the machine and what it was (and wasn't) doing. I seriously began looking at something better and settled with Deep Steam portables (bought 2) and that lasted a couple years until we got our first TM in 1979--got tired of lugging heavy equipment every job. It was one of John Sales first units, I think. A #2 blower and a Hotsy pressure washer that we had to plug into the customer's outlet each job. Pretty antiquated but way better than what we were doing. BTW, I don't think that customer ever called us back after a lame VS job. I don't blame her.
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Ummmm...I can't even remember when I was 61.....of course same thing
About breakfast today.....
61.....damn Jim.....yor still a kid.....wit
Your dad's Gene's you'll beat Richards all to hell.....I'll sen ya flures!
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64 now Bob.....but I'll still be watching the sunrise out of cell range tomorrow....
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Jim...you got this special spot in you that just cracks me up.....
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So then......you haven't even had yor 1st heart attack yet?.....they give you morphine along wit a dilada drip and you tell all the nursees how pretty they are....
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Amusing and historically insightful...Steve Laurence sure hope your ok and doing fine...Bob you ol cuss...Ed (was) quite the character. Jim you were right, he would spend hours talking on a phone...I had a few very long chats with him back then ... An of course any talk of Lee, reminds me of Ludlow Mass ,with you .Prochem 10a or something ? But as I turn 64 this year .All I can say is god bless all ...Past or Present they got us to the goal line ... None of us grew up dreaming to do what we do. But as John Donne wrote there are two paths. We all chose the seldom taken route...An what a ride it was ! {health disclaimer-Get your prostate checked and live!-promise me } Regards to All !
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Sounds like margaritaville
