| Carole B. Schaudt |
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About Me
Since the year 2000 I own, with my husband, two pooches (Poker and
Wendi), one cat (Barney) and one bird, a manufactured home at the Palm
Desert Greens Country Club.
Born and bred in California I grew up in greater Los Angeles, attended
Beverly High and while going to school helped out in my father's clothing
stores (Dexter's).Married early, I had three now Baby Boomer Children,
then, when my Father closed his stores I opened my own under 'Styles' in
Canoga Park.My stores closed when my parents began manufacturing in the
Far East, so that I could join them to oversee production in China and
Hong Kong (under the labels Dino Ricco and Members Only).
In between I was politically active in the Democrat Party, culminating in
becoming the President of the Young Democrats in the West San Fernando
Valley.I was intensely involved in Tom Bradley's campaign for Mayor of
Los Angeles in the sixties, as well as Bobby Kennedy's campaign for the
Presidency. Unfortunately, I had to witness also Bobby Kennedy's
assassination [I was interviewed as an eyewitness to the BK assassination
on CBS2/KPSP Local 2, participated in Anita Rufus' call-in program on
KNEWS 1140, was featured in the Desert Sun and hosted a gathering of
other witnesses of that tragic event to commemorate its 40th anniversary].
I withdrew from politics after that and concentrated on a real estate carrier
but returned, when my father requested it, to his business overseas.I met
my present husband Robert, a German, in 1983 in Hong Kong, moved with
him back to the U.S.1989 (his English was better than my non-existing
German) and settled in Rancho Mirage.In 1992 we opened a restaurant in
Cathedral City (the Bremer Hof, the only eatery serving authentic German
food at that time...still fondly remembered by many valley residents) but
closed it in 1993 and moved to Oregon.
After working in a German Restaurant in Roseburg, my husband decided in
1997 that America was just too beautiful to sit out in an Oregon town and
became a truck driver. I joined him in 1998 as a passenger, in 2000 as a
licensed co-driver. We drove first Boxes (the usual cargo trailers) then
chemical tankers.
We retired from truck driving in 2004, I because of a severe kidney
malfunction probably caused by the job, my husband because of a chemical
accident which almost killed him, possibly still can because it is thought the
cancer he was diagnosed with in 2005 stemmed from the exposure to those
toxic materials. The disease was surgically and chemically treated and we
hope will not return.
Since the year 2000 I own, with my husband, two pooches (Poker and
Wendi), one cat (Barney) and one bird, a manufactured home at the Palm
Desert Greens Country Club.
Born and bred in California I grew up in greater Los Angeles, attended
Beverly High and while going to school helped out in my father's clothing
stores (Dexter's).Married early, I had three now Baby Boomer Children,
then, when my Father closed his stores I opened my own under 'Styles' in
Canoga Park.My stores closed when my parents began manufacturing in the
Far East, so that I could join them to oversee production in China and
Hong Kong (under the labels Dino Ricco and Members Only).
In between I was politically active in the Democrat Party, culminating in
becoming the President of the Young Democrats in the West San Fernando
Valley.I was intensely involved in Tom Bradley's campaign for Mayor of
Los Angeles in the sixties, as well as Bobby Kennedy's campaign for the
Presidency. Unfortunately, I had to witness also Bobby Kennedy's
assassination [I was interviewed as an eyewitness to the BK assassination
on CBS2/KPSP Local 2, participated in Anita Rufus' call-in program on
KNEWS 1140, was featured in the Desert Sun and hosted a gathering of
other witnesses of that tragic event to commemorate its 40th anniversary].
I withdrew from politics after that and concentrated on a real estate carrier
but returned, when my father requested it, to his business overseas.I met
my present husband Robert, a German, in 1983 in Hong Kong, moved with
him back to the U.S.1989 (his English was better than my non-existing
German) and settled in Rancho Mirage.In 1992 we opened a restaurant in
Cathedral City (the Bremer Hof, the only eatery serving authentic German
food at that time...still fondly remembered by many valley residents) but
closed it in 1993 and moved to Oregon.
After working in a German Restaurant in Roseburg, my husband decided in
1997 that America was just too beautiful to sit out in an Oregon town and
became a truck driver. I joined him in 1998 as a passenger, in 2000 as a
licensed co-driver. We drove first Boxes (the usual cargo trailers) then
chemical tankers.
We retired from truck driving in 2004, I because of a severe kidney
malfunction probably caused by the job, my husband because of a chemical
accident which almost killed him, possibly still can because it is thought the
cancer he was diagnosed with in 2005 stemmed from the exposure to those
toxic materials. The disease was surgically and chemically treated and we
hope will not return.
©2008 Robert & Carole Schaudt |
