Labor Day and who doesn’t recall her first job?
Mine was twirling cotton candy at a concession stand on Revere Beach Boulevard. I was 12 years old.
The area under the cyclone in the top photo is where Fred and Lil hired me to twirl cotton candy. Each of the following summers I was promoted to a different part of the concession. The soft drink section. The pepper steak grill. The fried clams!
Don’t look for the coaster now — it’s history, along with the rest of the amusements on the 2-mile boardwalk.
Deal of the week: Several decades later, I wrote a short short story set on the Cyclone. You can read it free if you have Kindle Unlimited. If you don’t and you pay $.99 to read it, let me know and I’ll “reimburse” you with one of my paperback mysteries!
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