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Name		Eric Odom
Nickname
Address		Houston, TX
Phone		713-409-5209
Email		N/A
Birthday		3/21/????
Gender		Male

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Start Date	End Date	Department	Position	Full / Part Time
7/6/1987	12/31/1995	Food Service	Host/Seasonal Supervisor	Part Time

What I did at Astroworld

I started off as a 15 year old food service host in 1987. Man, minumum wage was $3.35/hr! Yes, I had the temporary name tag with the orange dymo tape label, working at the Watermelon Tent in front of Alpine Refreshments before permanently moving to the Festhalle the next day. Anybody remember the band that used to play there? I moved to Chat-n-Chew the next season and was later promoted to stand manager/lead at Corny Dog Corner. I left the park in 1993 to work at Sam's for 3 months. I missed Astroworld so much that I used the pay phone at Sam's to call Astroworld to see if I could come back even though I was taking a pay cut from $6.40 back to $4.80/hr. I think I may have returned to the park the next day! I returned as a lead/supervisor-in-training at Spanky's Pizza. I was soon promoted to seasonal supervisor and worked until the end of the 1995 season, finishing my career as supervisor in the Sword and Crown. I can honestly say that I had worked at or supervised least one day in every location in every section of the park.

What I want to share with you.

I'm almost embarassed to say that I had and still do have all the music memorized that played in every section of the park and yes I have been guilty several times of putting my radio next to a speaker and letting the park music play on everybody's radio. I would intentionally whistle the music as loud as I could just to show off and see if I could get on somebody's nerves. I noticed during a return a few years ago that they changed up the music. Anybody know what they did with the tapes???