The Planned Vacation in Florida

We stayed in Florida until august, it was really getting hot so I told Ardis lets get the h--- out of here back to good old Michigan, she wholeheartedly agreed, but whoa, back up a little bit, we got so tired of laying around in the sun that I went to work in an orange groove fertilizing orange trees in 90 degree weather, this didn't last too long as we didn't need the money that bad so I told the guy in charge I was quitting and that we were going back to Michigan in a couple weeks, he didn't like that too much said he didn't want to lose me and that if I would stay he would transfer me to an inside job on the packing line at distribution plant, In as much as I didn't want to lay around any more (never thought I would be saying this) I told him I would take it. I went to work the following morning and found out that he was very short of women help on the packing line, when I told Ardis that she said that she was tired of laying around and she was going to put in for a job there also, she was hired the next day We both worked there about a month, we bought a new car a Buick convertible sold the trailer to the camp owner (made $600.00 profit) and left for Michigan. NOTE At that time there was no air conditioning but engineers were experimenting with different kinds of chemistry that I had read about and they even had a working model that was very promising and figured that within a year they would have a working model installed in a cabinet and could control the inside air at 40 or 50 degrees with an outside temperature of 90 degrees. This was very exciting to me as even as dumb as the old farm boy was I could see the potentiality, although visionary at the time, of markets, homes and offices and even cars cooled by mechanical refrigeration. I read up on everything that I could find about different gases Freon’s, methyl chloride, ammonia and sulfur dioxide were the gases that they were going to use it turned out that they used all of these however, Freon would eventually be the primary gas to be used in all applications as methyl chloride, ammonia and sulfur dioxide was very toxic. I got many a snu--u---u--u t full of sulfur dioxide doing service work for the Marshall Hardware before I was promoted at the factory, I quit most of the outside work after that. I might mention that I had bought a O V Harley Davidson motor cycle and run a lot of service calls with it, also, many nights I would pick Ardis up at Schuler's with it and we would go roaring down W. Hanover Street to home. Just had a thought, why don't I mention the fact that Ardis worked at Shuler's for 18 years, really, until we built the first car wash in 1964 I don't know why this didn't enter my confused mind sooner, as her million's was the advent of our carousel to fame. I should look fame up in the Dictionary??