Wednesday, March 16, 2011
People Vance Lauderdale — Hard at Work (For a Change)
Posted by Vance Lauderdale on Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:39 PM
Now I can crank out these columns in a matter of days.
Just as soon as the hot lead cools, and the ink dries, and the pages are trimmed, and ...
Hey, wait a minute. Where's the damn monitor on this thing??
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And when you explain to these young kids in Graphics these days why it's called "leading" they look at you like you worked with the inventor of printing; Steve Gutenberg or whoever it was.
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I finally managed to look through old city directories at the library, and discovered that Horace Craver was the credit manager for the G&M Tire Company on Union Avenue. Perhaps that job provided him with the "spark" for his automotive-themed birth announcement.
The sad news is that the Cravers apparently didn't stay married long. Just two years after announcing the birth of their child, Dallas (also spelled "Dallis" in the phone books), was living in an apartment at 1220 Madison. There's no mention of Horace at all, and a fellow named Leonard Brown was living with his wife, Thelma, in the Cravers' former residence on Mignon.
