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'When Your Ready For A Taste Sensation It's On A Bagel At the Station' (part one)

Well the title of this series was our tag line for the restaurant that was to be our next stop in this journey.  After Ella Mae and I sold the fruit truck we than decided that the casino in Verona would be a good place to find employment.  What I didn't tell you in my last post was that as we were winding down that business I began taking classes at night in Rome, NY to become a 'blackjack dealer'!  It was quite a leap from the fruit we sold on our truck to the fruit depicted on the spinning wheels of some of the slot machines that lined the casino floor.  EM landed a job there first, as a remote cashier.  She and her cart would travel the casino floor where gamblers would give her money for her to apply to their card so they could play those slots.  I was hired about a month later.  We would commute from our home in Clay usually in 2 vehicles because we worked different shifts.  That fall of 1995, the winter came on with a vengeance where it  snowed every day until late Ap