BILL CADY Word Count: 149,227 - At My Friend's Place

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Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 65 CHAPTER SIX Christmas isn‟t always a happy time. Especially for poor kids. It gets worse when poor kids intermingle with middle class kids, or even well-to-do kids. In truth, it can get rather ugly. If memory serves me, it was the Christmas I was in sixth grade, circa 1960. <strong>My</strong> Dad had advanced his career from driving a city bus to selling Cutco knives door-to-door, then selling fire extinguishers door-to-door, then selling encyclopedias door-to-door, even used cars for a while. Finally, he went to work downtown selling furniture for J. W. Knapp Company. It was owned by the Mott family out of Flint, Michigan, a wealthy group of people. Knapp‟s was the finest department store in Lansing, Michigan. Bar none. It had all the latest-greatest everything. Keep in mind, at that time, if you asked some guy what a mall was, he‟d say “a big hammer”. There was no such thing as a mall as we know them today. If you wanted to shop, you went downtown. No exceptions. Leviticus, Limited 33-0505963
Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 66 Dad made a reasonably pissy living by selling the highest priced furniture within a few hundred miles, everywhere outside the Detroit area. Most of his buyers were wealthier people from the nicer neighborhoods. Not anyone who‟d invite a guy like Fred Cady to dinner. Mom was the housekeeper for a sorority in East Lansing, plus she worked at Gamble‟s Hardware, on the west end of town, evenings and weekends. What a lazy bitch, right? Then she had to keep house. Tend to two growing boys. Shop for food and prepare meals. Do the cleaning. On and on. No wonder she never spent any time reading. She had too damned much to do. Still, with all that, we were barely getting by. The history of our cars should give you a better understanding. Dad only bought new cars. He knew that was the wisest way. So, he bought a 1955 Willys. No shit. A passenger car made by Willys-Overland, the company that also made the Jeep. A two- tone coupe; red on the bottom, white on top. <strong>At</strong> least it was a two-door. They traded it in and came home one day with a brand-new Studebaker Lark, a 1960 model. A cream colored two-door, “three on the tree” stick shift with an AM radio. That was the only option on our car. In 1964, we traded up. He bought a 1964 Studebaker Daytona, light blue, a four- door. Do you have any idea how embarrassing it was to have my pals see me in that squared off, boxy car? Well, at least it was an automatic. Their first. Dad traded again in 1969 for a Dodge four-door, light green with a black vinyl top. Automatic, power steering, and a radio. What a luxury ride. I don‟t recall the model, but it was a full-size car. Years later, with my folks still driving that Dodge, I was Leviticus, Limited 33-0505963
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