Blog

Last week we had a Christmas/Holiday lunch with members and spouses of the SHS class of 1946 (Pete's Class).  When we get together it's fun to talk about the Sarasota we grew up in.

Bill Franklin (of Franklin Lighting & Electric) told us that when he was a very young man, he went to work for the City.  He was told he could wok in any department he wanted for two weeks each so he could decide what interested him the most and after several weeks he decided on the electrical department.  Can you imagine the City doing that now?  Me neither.

He recalled he was called into work late one night because a traffic light bulb had burned out on Main Street so he managed to borrow a City garbage truck and a 6 foot ladder and parked in the middle of Main St. teetering on a ladder to change the bulb.  This was way before bucket trucks were even thought about.

Life was/is good.