Tape 1a -- Leaves Berlin
at 14
Tape 1b -- Begins railroad hobo trip west across U.S.
Tape 2a -- Gets to San Bernardino and Los Angeles
Tape 2b -- First stay in Santa Barbara, working at Ott's hardware
Tape 3a -- Back east in New York, Key West, then Georgia, Tennessee,
Oklahoma, Flint Michigan
Tape 3b -- Returns to Germany, Marries Mom, returns to U.S., builds
house in Sacramento
Tape 4 -- Gus, Otto and Harry born in Sacramento, buys
first car: 1919 Buick
Return to Old Pagels
Hub
Tape 1a
(23 minutes)
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a.
Leaves home in Berlin at 14 to work a one-year contract on a farm. Jumps contract
after three months to return
home; arrested at home, spends 19 days in adult jail.
b.
From 12 to 14, works in Berlin bowling alley while going to school.
c.
Works at a furniture factory until he shoots his finger with six-shooter, walks 6 blocks to Red Cross
station. Then he was fired from the factory.
d.
Goes to Aunt’s restaurant in Hamburg.
e.
At 15 (1910) goes to work about 3 weeks at sea on a
two-masted schooner, which carried wheat to Denmark,
coal, and so on. Pulled
sail, cooked, painted hot tar.
f.
Works on ship to America the same year, jumps ship in New York,
works 12 to 14-hour days on a farm for $10/month, then at hotel in Mt.
Vernon, N.Y., ($15/month) for three months, delivering beer house-to-house
on order. Introduction to funny episode with American girls.
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