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then freeze. The golf course became covered withice. I got the idea first, but soon every kid in theneighborhood was doing it. We would ice skatedown the hill. We would go so fast that we wouldcoast to the top of the next hill and then zoomdown again. We found a route where you couldjust keep going around and around with hardlyany pushing. No more walking back to the top. Asan adult, I realize how dangerous this could havebeen, but oh my, that was fun. Have you everheard of anyone else having such a wildexperience? Ice skating down hill?In the summertime, I would sell soda popto the golfers. We had a large freezer in ourbasement. I would go to a local beer and sodadistributor with a wagon and pull back five or sixcases of soda at a time. In Detroit, it was justknown as "pop." We were across from the tee forthe seventeenth hole. Golfers were pretty thirstyat that point. On an average weekend, I wouldclear well over $100. For a twelve-year-old in1948, that was pretty good money.Our house had a unique feature that noone else in the family knew about. In one of theupstairs bedrooms, there was a small bookcasebuilt into the wall. Once while playing, I bumpedinto it, and it opened up. It was just a storagearea, but when I discovered it, I hoped to findmoney or treasure inside. All that was there were32