Leland J. Kennedy Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Godfrey then and all over on the east end of the county and in those little townships over
there and that part of Madison that Bond County bordered.
Q: Now when you did this vending, was that in addition to the job at Shell?
A: Oh yes. I only had to service them one day a week, or maybe some of them didn't sell
enough cigarettes. In filling stations or in taverns you had some good stops. It wasn't
densely populated place where the machines were, didn't have the traffic that you'd have
in Alton or in Granite City. I had none there, or in a large population area, or in densely
populated areas. Oh I guess if I sold - oh, I don't know, I probably never had a month
when I ever sold over two hundred and fifty or three hundred cartons of cigarettes.
But I made a little money at it. My daughter was young enough to go into preschool out
at the convent. And Pat was in the third or fourth grade and I made enough money to
pay my expenses and I always put a little away so we'd have something to take a vacation.
I've always done that, every year until they were in high school, we always went some
place. Generally went up north, went out east. When Jack Kennedy's year - in 1961 when
he was inaugurated, we didn't go to the inauguration - we went to Washington that year.
Sometimes when I had a - you'd lose a stop and then you might pick up a stop, and I
couldn't handle those machines by myself, and I always picked somebody from the department
to go with me and I'd give 'em something.