Diary of a Waitress: The Not-So-Glamorous Life of a Harvey Girl by Carolyn Meyer
When Kitty Evans gets the bad news that pursing her life long dream of going to college and studying journalism is no longer an option, she starts looking for ways to escape her hometown and avoid working at the local shoe store "selling shoes to persnickety old ladies with stinky feet!" On a whim, she fills out an application to waitress as a Harvey Girl for the Harvey House Restaurants that have sprung up along the route of the railroads.
A little unsure and wondering what she has gotten herself into, Kitty heads to Kansas to train as a Harvey Girl. Once there, she finds that there are a lot of rules and a lot of hard work.
This was an interesting story about a piece of railroad history that I had not heard of before. The story gets a little repetitive but was still a good read.
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