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Thursday, May 05, 2005

You are the bows...Randy, continued

Randy woriked for a while as an usher at the old Rialto theatre.He had to be agile to avoid being hit by debris that kept falling from the ceiling. Later, for a brief period we owned the theatre. Not a good move.Randy then moved to to the all American job of those years, working at McDonalds.Using the old Ford Courier pickup he also cleaned up many properties that Donna managed. One notable cleanup was at a four-plex on Butternut Drive. It had a small patio area enclosed by a 6 foot board fence.While cleaning up the trash he stumbled into a hornet's nest. Needless to say, Randy was able to clear that fence in one jump or less..
Randy also liked to hike up to Carter Lake where he was able to observe the abundant wild life in the area. In later years he tooked off from a guided tour of the Great Wall of China to explore the surrounding mountains. There was no wild life there to observe.
When he attended CU at Boulder his wheels were his Model A Ford. After developing a pain in his upper leg and thigh, he went to a doctor. The diagnosis was that the extreme force he had to use in applying the mechanical brakes on the Model A was the culprit. No pain,no gain!
When I took Randy and Kevin Christensen to Boulder to look for housing the best deal dollars wise was a room on the 3rd floor of an old home with kitchen facilitiles in the basement. I looked around and found a 3 bedroom unit in a planned unit development. It featured a pool, tennis courts, squash ball courts and other amenities.I purchased it and Randy rented out the other two bedrooms. The next year, when Dan appeared on the scene, they shard a bedroom and continued to rent out the other bedrooms. In latter years, Donna & I sold the unit to one of the students who Randy and Dan had rented to.
After graduation from CU,Randy was accepted for the MBA program at Cornell. One of the requirements was that he work a year in the real business world before entering the program. I believe Randy already had a real estate broker's license so he choose to work a year with Donna and I at Estate Builders Realty. He had suggested the name when we opened a few years earlier. I believe it was that summer or the summer before that my friend at the Reporter Hearld, Merritt Lewis, did a story and a picture of Randy, Dan and thier father huddled around a desk at Estate Builder. I suppose it is retrieveable. Randy did a great professional job and made many notable sales, including a liquor store. It was there that Randy met the Mother of his children, Camile. I had a rent to own add in the paper and had made an evening appointment with her but then I decided to take Greg and Ramona to the auction to get some furniture for the rentals. Randy had to make good on my appointment for me and he did. Greg and Ramona looked forward to going to the acution because there were so many characters there, notably, old SPECS. It was there that Greg got the instrument panel for a
B-24 bomber. It still sits in the garage at the Columbine.

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