My Lifetime Work Places

I just put together a collection of photos of all the places I worked at over my lifetime. One interesting thing is many of them were historical buildings that had been built in the early 1900's. This is one of those historical factory’s where we made springs which is where I worked on a production line back in 1969.

This is another place I worked at near the one above which was in 1970 where I made fiber molds for Steel Mill castings.

This is another place I worked where we made bags of powdered milk products that was named Milk Specialities where I had to lift up to 10,000 lbs of 100 pound bags of chunks of milk whey which I opened and dumped into the opening of the grinders they used to make it into powder. One other thing I did there was take 25 & 50 pound bags of powder products off the assembly lines and stack them onto pallets. Each pallet held 80 bags and I often loaded 20 pallets each shift I did that on. As you can see 20 pallets loaded with 50 pound bags was a total of 80,000 pounds of lifting per shift.

Fun things I did when I was a kid

Way back in the early 1960's my dad used to take my brother Rick and me skiing. One other thing we used to do was going to racing at Meadowdale Speedway Race Track many times which was sports car and stock car racing.

Another thing back in the late 1950's our family did was boating on a catamaran sailboat my dad had built. One other thing was way back in the early 1960's our family went on a vacation on the cabin cruiser we had. We lived on that boat for 2 weeks up in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin. Another nice memory for me is that what Rick and I did then was when my Dad docked the boat we would always jump from the boat onto the pier and tie the boat to the dock. Also we went through many canals that had lochs where we went into the loch and held the ropes they had while they closed the loch doors and changed the water level in the loch to get us to the proper level on the exit side of the loch.

The other thing we did every day on that vacation was fishing to catch the fish we would clean and eat for dinner.

Another Interesting Place I Visited

This is a bull farm my family visited many times back in the 1960's. Also, I took this picture recently which is long after the bull farm shut down.

Another Historical Place I visited

This is a historic castle that was built back in the 1950's in Fox River Grove Illinois that is a truly classic place to visit. It is a memory from my youth when we did visit that castle two or three times a year during spring summer or fall.

One other interesting thing is we once met the man who built the castle and he explained how he did build it to us and led us on a tour of the castle.

Interesting Historical Place

This is a blacksmith shop that is in Kaneville a small town near where I live that was built in 1871. I posted it because this is a picture I took of it when I rode there on my BMW motorcycle.

Another Race I won!

This is me when I raced at Phoenix International Raceway back in 1984 where I set the track record lap time in my class and won the race!

Not Going Riding

I can't go for a ride because if I do it will definitely rain on me even though the NOAA website shows it shouldn't rain. I am saying that because all  the times I have ridden when NOAA showed it wasn't supposed to rain on cloudy sky days I got rained on. Every time I look at the site and see it predicts it won't rain I go to the radar site to see what is actually happening. That is a good thing to do since when I checked it just now it showed there is rain in our area.

One of my Early Jobs

This is a job I had when I was 18 years old. The company was named Chicago Aerial Industries and when I worked there I built weapons control systems for Huey Cobra helicopters. One other thing is our company provided all of them and I built them all. This is a picture of one of them:

It is an XM-28 sighting station which controlled all the weapons the Cobra had. Also, that is one I built which was back in 1969.

Bob Racing

This is me racing motocross on my YZ250 back in 1975. I won that race!