To get things going I’m bundling a number of early memories into this one post and it spans a few years. So, “Bar Life”… Yes I was a toddler often in a bar. My father and girlfriend?? ( not mom) lived above a bar and worked in the bar. She may have been the owner?
So anyways my earliest memories are some scenes from that bar and a couple from upstairs “at home”. One was with him teaching me to ride a 3 speed English bike he just bought me in the back parking lot. This is a visual me a kid less that 5 years old trying to ride such a large bike.
Others are with him doing little party tricks with me at the bar. One I remember was lighting a match… having me open my mouth…. put the match in my mouth…close my mouth… then opening my mouth and pulling the still light match back out! I could play Mack the Knife on the jukebox. A popular song at the time and the old push button jukeboxes with the 1 letter & 1 number combinations to select what songs to play. Guess I had that one memorized.
