[AGL] Henry Hollman and Arthur Vanz running parts

[Frances Morey]

No regrets. I got tired of being a landlady--kinda like watching the grass
grow. It was fun to have money for trips and BMW's but all's well that
ends well. I'm happy that I have lived this long and reconnected with Mike
thanks to my friend, Carolyn Sliter Westergren, who was Mike's late wife
of 39 years. And that I still have my health to enjoy it all. I am close to
78 and have great labs, no complaints and take no prescription meds--all's
good.

BTW about 1991 I quit drinking alcohol to excess, impressed when Ramsey
Wiggins mentioned that he learned his dose was but one drink a day. My
adopted drink-dose is one a week at a time for beer or wine. So it's been a
long, long while since I've experienced the agony of a hangover. In 2012 I
went vegan so I never seem to get sick any more. As a bonus my arthritis
vanished and I stopped losing teeth to periodontal disease. Who knew!
Best,
Frances

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 4:55 AM Hans-Peter OTTO <hpo.photog at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the Message Infos Frances. I too remember your 23rd St Apt.
> long long time ago!
>
> On 21. Aug 2020, at 03:56, Frances Morey <frances.morey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi, Mike and Hans,
> We have a terrific contractor who we love to have work on our house
> because he is so thorough and economy minded, (being as we are nearing our
> expiration date.) We had the whole kitchen done-over a couple of years ago.
> Now he is replacing the rotting siding around the base of the entire house.
> He is also a dear friend, like one of the family. It is a pleasure having
> him around in this time of pandemic isolation.
>
> For example I wanted a tile-splash behind the sink and counter. He asked
> me if I would prefer to spend $300 instead of $3000 on it. Of course I
> chose the $300 and we backed the wall behind the counter with
> antique-style-pressed-tin like they used to put up on the ceilings of the
> saloons that I had found at Home Depot. It looks most attractive and was
> dramatically cost effective compared to what tile would have been. I got a
> new sink, fixture and under-cabinet lighting for the entire countertop. We
> also got new floor covering, total repainting of the cabinets, ceiling and
> all new appliances for the $3000. In other words I got a $30,000 kitchen
> makeover for a fraction of the cost!
>
> I well knew Arthur Vance. For a time he lived at my Three Friends
> Apartments on W. 23 and Leon St., after he left you as a housemate, Mike.
> He and I became close friends. When I did my Mid-West Tour of the US in
> 2004 I stopped off in Castle Valley, Indiana, on my way to Erie, PA where I
> visited Pat and Ida Holman. I spent four days hanging out with Arthur. It
> was delightful. I got to meet his first family and his two lovey
> granddaughters and their mother, Arthur's first wife. The grandparents were
> big time corn growers in Indiana. They had a huge farm with a horse barn
> and training coralle for the girl's horses. The girls were accomplished
> riders. Arthur had an impressive garden and sweet little cottage he lived
> in. He even took me to his favorite fishing hole.
>
> Best,
> Frances
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 6:37 AM Hans-Peter OTTO <hpo.photog at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Good for you! You deserve luck because you research so well. But Henry is
>> long gone. Regrets
>>
>> > On 19. Aug 2020, at 12:09, Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > The last time Madelon & I saw Henry out and about was at Breed's
>> hardware on 29th st. Arthur Vanz who you may or may not know was fired by
>> the mercurial comptrollor Bob Bullock and was reduced to giving dance
>> lessons. That didn't pan out so he started doing maintenance work for his
>> friends like Ann Richard. He joked to me once that he was put down as a
>> maintenance man who had to run parts frequently.
>> >
>> > I got lucky at Home Depot yesterday with a friendly aisle guy in
>> plumbing. On the fly, he speced out the project and sold me a new sink
>> drain, 2 couplings, and a elbow with a long stem. So I need to measure
>> measure measure and cut the stem twice with hacksaw in our little
>> attachable vise. The leaking faucet project should be doable after watching
>> a plumber's walk-through of the process on YouTube a number of times.
>> >
>> > The aisle guy was a POC wearing a mask below his nose. A plumbing
>> engineer who knew where all the parts were to be found and found them. Came
>> to $27.
>>
>>
>
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