![]() From 1917 to 1924 it was the Templar Automotive Plant. It was on 18 acres with plenty of parking. The brick pile was going on a hundred years. I pulled him out, wrapped him in a newspaper, and took him to the park, where I laid him down in a pile of autumn leaves. He was stiff and there were flies buzzing around him. I hadn’t heard or felt him hit the car that morning. One day after work, as I walked to my car, I saw a dead bird stuck headfirst in my front grill. Madison Park was in front of the building and Birdtown was all around us. When Doug hired me for part-time sales, I opened a savings account.ĭoug had moved to the Screw Factory on Athens Ave in Lakewood. I kept my head above water, but I was treading water. I drummed up additional work at other salons, trying to make myself useful, doing repairs, selling delivering installing bulbs, and whatever else needed a handyman. ![]() My business partner was a full-time fireman in Bay Village, so I did most of the work at the tanning salon. Sometimes I could see him in his office, his back turned to me. Whenever he didn’t want to see me, his receptionist said he wasn’t in, even though his car was parked in the back in its customary space. After a while I stopped taking it personally. He always made promises and usually broke his promises. He always wore the same dark suit, white shirt, and dark tie. Bill Stech, an architect and the landlord, was on the top floor. “You never got much for used books, but it was a win if you got enough for a beer and a slice.” “Man, I spent a lot of book sale money there!” Carla Wainwright, a graduate of CSU, said. The Plain Dealer called it “Cleveland’s Best Pizza.” I went whenever I was famished and down to a couple of bucks. It was where concert goers at Peabody’s Down Under would go after shows for a gorge fest. The Rascal House Saloon was across the street. We were in a five-story brick building at East 21st St. When Doug was still in Rocky River I had teamed up with a friend of mine and set up a small tanning salon across the street from the Cleveland State University campus. In the end it amounted to twenty-two years. He was in Lakewood on the third floor of a hybrid industrial commercial building, renting space and then more space. The pooch was unusually mean.īy the time I met Doug on Monday he wasn’t in Rocky River anymore. I gave his junkyard dog a wide berth, too. It said, “Fuck You.” I gave him a wide berth whenever I saw him. He had a tattoo inside his mouth under his front lip. Randy Bacon, Chuck’s brother-in-law, helped in the warehouse now and then. It went to court, there were claims and counterclaims of theft of trade secrets, but in the end, they both stayed in business, personal enemies, and business rivals. As tanning bulb sales grew by leaps and bounds Marty took the leap and set up his own distributorship. It was called the Lightmobile.ĭoug had an office, but Marty’s desk was in a hallway leading to the warehouse. The company truck was a red F150 Econoline. There were three of them, Doug, his friend and salesman Marty Gallagher, and Chuck Pampush, who did the warehouse work and driving. ![]() Philips had developed the 10R, 09, and 09R fluorescent UV tubes for the European market and Doug was selling them like gangbusters. He was selling commercial lighting and had lately gotten a head start on tanning bulbs. ![]() Doug had been set up in business by his father, who worked for Philips Lighting. I met Doug Clarke when he was in a small building on Linda St. I called Doug Clarke and asked if I could see him. I had gotten married the year before and it was time to knuckle down. (/apps/myspace/tree/node_modules/myspace.api/lib/platform/slayer/request.js:46:11)Īt (events.When your back is to the wall, you’ve only got one place to fall, which is flat on your face. TypeError: Cannot read property 'albums' of undefinedĪt exports.buildArtistInfoTrayTasks (/apps/myspace/tree/areas/music/classes/helper.js:48:38)Īt (/apps/myspace/tree/node_modules/myspace.api/lib/platform/connections/providers/connectionsProvider.js:146:3)Īt exports.buildArtistInfoTrayTasks (/apps/myspace/tree/areas/music/classes/helper.js:46:20)Īt async.parallel (/apps/myspace/tree/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:476:17)Īt async.forEach (/apps/myspace/tree/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:94:25)Īt async.parallel (/apps/myspace/tree/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:473:21)Īt (/apps/myspace/tree/node_modules/myspace.api/lib/platform/recommendation/providers/recommendationProvider.js:84:13)Īt /apps/myspace/tree/node_modules/myspace.api/lib/platform/slayerBase.js:107:14Īt IncomingMessage.
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