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L.A. bus worker calls it quits at 100
Last Updated Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:52:37 EST
CBC News
A bus maintenance worker in Los Angeles will mark his 100th birthday Wednesday by retiring after more than 70 years on the job.
"I'm kind of nervous about leaving the job, I've been doing it for so long," Arthur Winston told the Associated Press at a ceremony held in his honour on Tuesday.
"I'm going to miss my crew, but I'll find plenty of things to do with my free time."
According to transit officials, Winston had a near-perfect attendance record. The only work day he ever missed was when his wife of 65 years died in 1988, AP reported.
Winston arrived in California after drought and storms drove his family out of Oklahoma in the 1920s.
"In 1924, at age 17, Mr. Winston started cleaning trolley cars for the Los Angeles Railway Co., which morphed and merged nearly half a dozen times and is now the Metropolitan Transportation Authority," the Los Angeles Times said in a 1997 profile.
"He quit that job for a spell, then went back Jan. 24, 1934. He has never left."
"The barber refuses to take his money."
He was something of a celebrity in South Los Angeles, the Times continued, "the result of being around so long that he seems to know just about everybody (or everybody's great-grandparents). People fuss over him. The barber refuses to take his money.
"Men in their 60s and 70s stop to tell Mr. Winston they have been emulating him since they were boys."
In recent years, Winston led an 11-member crew that cleaned and refueled buses at the Arthur Winston Division, a South L.A. bus yard named in his honour in 1997, China's official Xinhua news agency noted.
"Employee of the Century"
In 1996, he received a congressional citation as "Employee of the Century" from U.S. President Bill Clinton.
The secret of his long working life?
"I don't smoke, and I don't drink and I don't fool with these credit cards," he told CBS News in 2004.
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Posted : 22/03/2006 11:24 am
DAMN. He looks good for 100.
Blacks never live that long cause they eat all that fried chicken and oily foods.
Posted : 22/03/2006 8:49 pm
Arbeit macht Frei.
100? Wow. And retiring after 70 years with a perfect attendance record.
Now that's an admirable black. His people would do well to follow his example.
The thug/pimp/rapper/gangsta/dealer/ex-con life ain't cool, brotha. It's CLOWN. Where your baby daddy at?
Give the guy a medal. He doesn't have a chip on his shoulder the size of Gibraltar.
Posted : 22/03/2006 8:56 pm
F this. I actually figured this out. That's a canadian news service posting about an LA nigger?
More diversity race mixing propaganda.
F the jew.
Posted : 22/03/2006 8:58 pm
This is the exception not the rule. Unfortunately the modern negro is drifting further from this ideal state. This article would have you think otherwise.
Posted : 22/03/2006 8:59 pm
"I'm kind of nervous about leaving the job, I've been doing it for so long," Arthur Winston told the Associated Press at a ceremony held in his honour on Tuesday.
Hehe, a lot of these oldtimers, regardless of race, seem reluctant to quit because they seem to DIE within a month or so. 
Posted : 22/03/2006 9:16 pm
I know for a fact that older workoholics develop Alzheimers from quitting their jobs.
Posted : 22/03/2006 9:19 pm
This is a propaganda piece to cast niggers as a dependable, hard working, and overall good people. Your average White lemming will read this and use it to support their belief that the majority of blacks are good people.
Hail Jeboo!
Posted : 22/03/2006 9:35 pm
"They don't make blacks like this anymore"
When did they ever make groids like this?
Never!
This one is a total freak!One in a billion - at least!!!!
Posted : 23/03/2006 9:05 am
So THAT's the story I saw last night on CBS News while on the treadmill, with the noise from same too loud to hear the audio. 🙂
John
Posted : 23/03/2006 10:08 am
"They don't make blacks like this anymore"
When did they ever make groids like this?
Never!
This one is a total freak!One in a billion - at least!!!!
Naw, these kinda blacks were pretty common in rural east tx where I am from. The nigger who knows his place. They are aging and dying leaving a string of nigs with chips on their shoulders. for shame, for shame.
Form follows function --Louis Sullivan
Posted : 23/03/2006 10:32 am
The reason why it made news cause it was an honest working black, LIKE zOMGz WHERE?!
Posted : 24/03/2006 2:02 am
Naw, these kinda blacks were pretty common in rural east tx where I am from. The nigger who knows his place. They are aging and dying leaving a string of nigs with chips on their shoulders. for shame, for shame.
Yes, yes. When Negroes were kept in their place in America, they had it better than any Negroes anywhere in the world. Once upon a time most of them were born into families and illegitimacy was less than 25% (which is still high). Lynching and segregation helped keep the typical corrupt predatory Negro from ruining things for others. Thanks to the Jew, who in his heart cares not for Negroes, the Negroes were loosed upon the nation and quickly reverted to their natural savage state (cf. Af-freaka). There is now no way the Negroes can be retamed. They must be expelled.
This sort of article is typical of reporting on really old people that appear in the media. It has human interest and serves the purpose of catching the attention of readers so as to deliver their brains to the advertisers. I am surprised that the story did not include extensive quotes from this man complaining about how bad he had it during the age of 'racism,' 'segregation,' and 'discrimination.'
Forgotten Black Voices: American slaves had surprisingly positive things to say about slavery.
How is the faithful city become an harlot! It was full of judgment: righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water. Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards.
"The
Posted : 24/03/2006 12:45 pm
I am surprised that the story did not include extensive quotes from this man complaining about how bad he had it during the age of 'racism,' 'segregation,' and 'discrimination.'
Probably because he had no complaints about it. As you point out, the Negroes were far better off under segregation - this one may have realized that.
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Posted : 24/03/2006 3:19 pm
"They don't make blacks like this anymore"
When did they ever make groids like this?
Never!
This one is a total freak!One in a billion - at least!!!!
Yes so damn true, so very true.
Posted : 24/03/2006 3:23 pm
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