Otto's Night Watch: 'Day of the Magnolia Blossom' ... Flashback Friday

“I had been thinking about buying a larger paper cutter, but I bought a station wagon instead. My convertible had become too small. We had fallen into the habit of taking the dog and the children for a ride on Sundays. I was ready to sign a contract for another offset press, but what did I do? I bought a house instead, so the kids could be with their dog and I could be with Gloria. Then she didn’t want me to travel through all that traffic every day and pay all that rent downtown. So I moved the equipment into the garage in back of the house. I had to sell some of it, but I’ve still got one linotype. If you’d care to run it ... we could get a lot more work...