David talking about his very first job. Funny how he does the arm chop movement to illustrate all the hotdogs on his arm. :)
@janop1 I KNOW! I was thinking the same thing! Give us details, Dave! 'They wanted their hotdogs...' and then the defeated expression on his face while he says 'sometimes there'd be a fight'. To me, it definitely sounds like they started fighting young David, snatching the hotdogs off his arm. 🥲
Im sure I've read somewhere about the fights, or one fight at least but I can't find it anymore. Anyway atleast I do have this:
David worked so many jobs and went on so many sidequests in the early 70s its so hard to find exactly what I'm looking for.
He just really loves sausages 🤷🏼♀️
TW: There's some pretty heavy gossip. One sad thing that happened was… there's a restaurant in New York in the village called David's Pot Belly which was started by a man named David Levine and David Levine fell in love with Providence… and the Providence mafia. And he came up to Providence to start David's Pot Belly II. And it used to be way up, you know, on the hill.
CF: It was on Hope St. There's a French restaurant there now.
TW: And Chris worked there. And then he opened up a bigger one down the hill, at the bottom of the hill. Below Benevolent St.
CF: On South Main St.
TW: So everybody worked there. I mean, David worked there, I worked there. I think Rudy worked… everybody… I mean, all my… half my sisters worked there as waitresses. I mean, we all…
CF: He had a rule that you had to be cute to get a job as a waitress. So all the waitresses were like… really really cute. [Laughs]
TW: And Chris became a chef there because Chris was really… he was really on top of… you know, to be a chef you have to be… very organized and rapid and be quick on your feet. And so Chris became a chef, but David could never move up from being a dish washer. Because… but it was better than… he got that job thanks to Chris because he'd had a job… you know that little hot dog stand that they have next to the… is it the Biltmore?
CF: It's called the New York System.
TW: Yeah.
CF: Don't know if it's still there.
TW: It was there a couple years ago.
JS: I'm not sure if it's still there either, but actually on a random side-note, I spoke with a professor yesterday who I have a paper due for tomorrow and said basically, it's going to be very hard for me to get this all done. I'm going and doing this interview. He was actually in his teens during the "Stop Making Sense" tour and his reaction was, "that's far cooler than doing my paper so just get it in to me whenever you can." [Chris laughs] But he specifically mentioned this hot dog place…
TW: Yeah. And David got fired because his arms were so hairy.
[Chris laughs]
TW: Because one of the requisites of the job is in order to get the hot dogs done fast enough you would stack all the buns on your arms and then you'd go like this [mimes placing things up and down her arm] and put all the actual sausages into the buns. And David's arms were too hairy and the clientele complained about finding hair in their hot dogs. [Chris laughs] So, David got fired and got a job up at David's Pot Belly.
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