Number Two Car Wash

Be that as it may, the car wash prospered for the next two years, however, we were always aware that somebody would think that we making too much money and decide to infringe on our prosperity and build one in town somewhere, so what was I to do?? You guessed it , find a location and build another car wash. This I wasted no time a doing. I found several fair locations but eventually settled on a plot of land ( across the highway from the airport ) with two and five eighth acres on it, actually, it was an old apple orchard, we had to remove near one hundred trees and level it off, so on august first 1967 we opened a five bay car wash. John Bedwell was contracted to build it. Now we had eight bays in two locations to manage and keep repaired. As a matter of record we paid $15.000 for the lot and for the equipment another $35.000 t o get it started The building itself cost about $ 40.000, then after two years operation we decided to make one bay into a automatic, another $18.000. However, this was the only automatic in town or within 35 miles of Marshall, the nearest being in Kalamazoo. It was busy--busy--busy. Costing an even one buck a wash.