Arnold Schwarzenegger

So I said, Franco, we should start a business here. And then, of course, we put an ad in the LA Times, Italian and European masonry work experts and all of this shit. I didn't know anything about masonry work. So we put the ad in. The next day after the ad came out, we had the earthquake in Los Angeles. I mean, can you think about that?

And then, all of a sudden, everyone called us, and they said, oh my God, you gotta come over, you gotta rebuild our chimney, you gotta rebuild our patio, the patio has a big crack here, the wall has a big crack, the wall around the house fell down, and blah, blah, blah. So Franco and I, we were doing bits left and right, and going around.

And then, all of a sudden, everyone called us, and they said, oh my God, you gotta come over, you gotta rebuild our chimney, you gotta rebuild our patio, the patio has a big crack here, the wall has a big crack, the wall around the house fell down, and blah, blah, blah. So Franco and I, we were doing bits left and right, and going around.

And then, all of a sudden, everyone called us, and they said, oh my God, you gotta come over, you gotta rebuild our chimney, you gotta rebuild our patio, the patio has a big crack here, the wall has a big crack, the wall around the house fell down, and blah, blah, blah. So Franco and I, we were doing bits left and right, and going around.

Yeah, there's a famous wall down in Venice, not far from here, that Franco and I, that was one of the first walls that we built, that's still standing exactly the way it was. Why don't you reopen that business? More than 50 years ago, this wall was built, and it's still standing there, not moved an inch, nothing changed. It's going to be like the Roman walls. Yeah.

Yeah, there's a famous wall down in Venice, not far from here, that Franco and I, that was one of the first walls that we built, that's still standing exactly the way it was. Why don't you reopen that business? More than 50 years ago, this wall was built, and it's still standing there, not moved an inch, nothing changed. It's going to be like the Roman walls. Yeah.

Yeah, there's a famous wall down in Venice, not far from here, that Franco and I, that was one of the first walls that we built, that's still standing exactly the way it was. Why don't you reopen that business? More than 50 years ago, this wall was built, and it's still standing there, not moved an inch, nothing changed. It's going to be like the Roman walls. Yeah.

It's going to be there for thousands of years, except someone tears it down. So our workmanship was good, but I learned everything from Franco. Franco would go in here, the Mustang, and he would pick up a wheelbarrow, and he would pick up a cement mixer, one of those little machines, and he would just tow it to the construction site, and then I would be in charge of mixing the cement.

It's going to be there for thousands of years, except someone tears it down. So our workmanship was good, but I learned everything from Franco. Franco would go in here, the Mustang, and he would pick up a wheelbarrow, and he would pick up a cement mixer, one of those little machines, and he would just tow it to the construction site, and then I would be in charge of mixing the cement.

It's going to be there for thousands of years, except someone tears it down. So our workmanship was good, but I learned everything from Franco. Franco would go in here, the Mustang, and he would pick up a wheelbarrow, and he would pick up a cement mixer, one of those little machines, and he would just tow it to the construction site, and then I would be in charge of mixing the cement.

He would show me what the combination is, how much water, how much sand, how much... sand and water and all this concrete that we put in there and then mix it up and then help him with that. And then he taught me how to do the bricklaying and all those things. And so we made money. We made $5,000 together. A week. I mean, imagine, it's a lot of money. $75,000, I mean, it was like a lot of money.

He would show me what the combination is, how much water, how much sand, how much... sand and water and all this concrete that we put in there and then mix it up and then help him with that. And then he taught me how to do the bricklaying and all those things. And so we made money. We made $5,000 together. A week. I mean, imagine, it's a lot of money. $75,000, I mean, it was like a lot of money.

He would show me what the combination is, how much water, how much sand, how much... sand and water and all this concrete that we put in there and then mix it up and then help him with that. And then he taught me how to do the bricklaying and all those things. And so we made money. We made $5,000 together. A week. I mean, imagine, it's a lot of money. $75,000, I mean, it was like a lot of money.

So we put literally $1,000 or $1,500 aside. And I started saving up money like that. And that's how I eventually, in 1974, had enough money to put down $27,000 for an apartment building. In Santa Monica? In Santa Monica, yeah. A six-unit apartment building on 19th Street in Santa Monica.

So we put literally $1,000 or $1,500 aside. And I started saving up money like that. And that's how I eventually, in 1974, had enough money to put down $27,000 for an apartment building. In Santa Monica? In Santa Monica, yeah. A six-unit apartment building on 19th Street in Santa Monica.

So we put literally $1,000 or $1,500 aside. And I started saving up money like that. And that's how I eventually, in 1974, had enough money to put down $27,000 for an apartment building. In Santa Monica? In Santa Monica, yeah. A six-unit apartment building on 19th Street in Santa Monica.

No, I think it was the kind of thing as an immigrant. If you were an immigrant that had its act together and he was willing to work and not live off the state or the country or something like that, we were kind of like... I had a friend who was a Czechoslovakian immigrant, then another guy that was a Polish immigrant.

No, I think it was the kind of thing as an immigrant. If you were an immigrant that had its act together and he was willing to work and not live off the state or the country or something like that, we were kind of like... I had a friend who was a Czechoslovakian immigrant, then another guy that was a Polish immigrant.

No, I think it was the kind of thing as an immigrant. If you were an immigrant that had its act together and he was willing to work and not live off the state or the country or something like that, we were kind of like... I had a friend who was a Czechoslovakian immigrant, then another guy that was a Polish immigrant.

Every one of them had a little kind of one had a kind of like a twin unit apartment building with just two units. Another one had like eight units. Another one had six units. So they talked me into this. I don't buy a house.