My Autobiography
by myself... Paul Drabek
To rip off a line from the great Groucho
Marx "I was born at a very early age" to John and Janet Drabek.
I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and just a town
over from the amusement park "Old Chicago" (if you have any info or pictures of
this please contact me) which was an indoor mall/theme park which had two coasters a Arrow
corkscrew and a mouse coaster which was my first.
As a kid I grew and got into trouble and goofed off..you
know kid stuff. About 1989 I first fell into love with coasters even though I had
always been interested in them, I just wasn't brave enough to ride them. Well Six
Flags Great America put of the Shockwave and I got on it and absolutely loved the drop and
I've been a nut ever since. During high school I lived for a couple of years in
Houston with my dad an spent almost every weekend at Six Flags Astroworld on their
plethora of coasters including Anton Schwartzkopf's Greezed Lightening shuttle loop and
The Viper a looping star. After high school I moved back up to the Chicago area and
eventually went to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and majored in Radio and TV
Marketing and Management where I got my B.S. (did I get it or am I full of it) There
during my last semester I met my wife to be Carrie Miller. By the end of a month we
were engaged and after graduation I got a job and worked for a year before the
wedding. Just before the wedding I changed jobs from a radio station to TCI the
cable company (now AT&T) selling advertising. After a short while I transferred
down to Charleston Illinois so we could be close to my wife's college and it's here that
we'll stay. I work for AT&T and Carrie teaches and when it's not warm I hit the
parks in the region like SFGAm, HW, IB, SFKK, SFStL and PKI. In the winter of 1999 I
finally got off my rear and joined ACE. So that's it my life in a nutshell.
-P
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chances are I'll give it to you!
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