My old pal….we can use the Woodhousesque,
“But, Bertie, we were at school together!”,
(elementary, high & college) to bend
each other to our wills
Steve and Artie were high school buddies from Berwyn
and roomed together at the Skull House.
I worked with these guys at the famous
Hawthorne plant of Western Electric the
summer after high school. I didn’t start this
sketchbook though ’til I was in college, so
obviously I returned to the plant to visit (unlikely)
or I worked over semester break. It was the
night shift and I drove forklifts and other cool
propane powered vehicles, moving gigantic
spools of cables from station to station. I
got the job, I’m sure, because my awesome
great-uncle Les was a mucky-muck at WE.