Getting back to the car wash business, the first thing I had to do was find a suitable location, this came about rather quickly, there was an empty lot on West Michigan Ave side of the then Dairy Queen I went to city hall and found out who owned it, made an appointment and talked to the man, he didn't want to sell it right away but when he found out what I wanted it for he got real interested and as it turned out he gave me a extra good deal if I would let him go into the business with me. This was not all bad because I had a full time job as well as Ardis, he could watch it during the day and I could take it at night.
The car wash eventually was started in the spring of 1964, it opened in august of the same year and at times there would a cop directing traffic at the site people went nuts over trying to get in especially in the winter when the roads were being salted, we were of course overjoyed when the salt trucks were on the move. I'm again getting ahead of the story, it seems you can’t build a car wash without money, good old Steve Smith again at Security National Battle Creek. I needn’t tell that Michigan National in Marshall turned me down again---------When Steve came over to see the house, and again we both were still working, also looked at the location where the car wash would be, we could have gotten $25,000 more without any problem.
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