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melissalovekills237 t1_ix4d9rx wrote

It's so beautiful, I used to work in the Center Cafe, the big round mahogany restaurant, right in the middle of the train station..I don't even know if it's still there. Now that my parents have passed... I don't come home anymore..but I l loved working there. At Christmas, they used to have toy train sets, set up... and on my break, I would walk around and look at them. Each one was like its own little world and the craft that the artists put into them, was amazing. This time of year is so magical.... I miss coming home for Christmas😞🪄🎩🎄☃️

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Eurynom0s t1_ix4krqe wrote

Center Cafe is long gone, that whole hall is just empty space now. :(

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melissalovekills237 t1_ixxsyxx wrote

That's a shame it was a beautiful restaurant and I made really good money there, well I was going to AU. I met a lot of very interesting people.It was actually my first real job.. I had been a hostess and shucked crabs and worked at my dad's KB theaters...when I was a teenager but that was my first real full-time job. The staff would take the train up to New York and party after the Friday night shift and then be back to work for the next dinner shift, in the same clothes, it was crazy. I spilled an entire bowl of soup down my grandmother's back because I was so nervous serving my family and I dropped a jeroboam of $1500 champagne on New Year's Eve because I had never opened champagne before... and I think the bartender was messing with me because I begged him to do it for me at the table ... but he told me that I had to learn how to do it myself. So I close my eyes and pulled on the cork and bam slid right out of my hand..the 2 customers from Saudi Arabia thought it was hilarious and ordered another one and end up tipping me enough money to cover the bottle which I was responsible for and another 1500 for me. I had a woman stab her husband in the hand at one of my tables...snd I won the super bowl pool and I know nothing about football everybody was pissed ...that was the best first job ever. That's a shame it's not still there but I don't really come home anymore.

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