OIL WELL ERA (1965-1979)

This was the beginning of an era when my meager brain started to percolate with visions of the treasure at the bottom of the rainbow. Building a new home ----pioneering the first car washes in town---------and entering into the uncertain financial world of oil wells. The later I better explain now as they would make a Herculean contribution to that rainbow treasure. Ivan Tenny was the promoter and explorer and I might say my partner in the eventual 15 wells over 14 years that we were associated with him, most of the wells were in Kent County Ohio. We had at least five wells that were good producers, two exceptional producers. With good old President Reagan's investment credit and 20% oil depletion allowance the treasure at the bottom of the rainbow was expanding at a unbelievable rate. It couldn't have come at a better time, however, two kids in college, Dennis at MSU and Deanna at WMU. We drove to Ohio a couple times over the years to the oil well locations and took pictures that we have somewhere in our collections.