When I was 7 or 8, I was spending some after school time at the office of my god-father on 7th street in Fort Worth Texas. My mother worked full time and went to school, so I bounced around after school various places, but this particular afternoon, I was at the Tandy Corp offices. I was sitting with his secretary when my Uncle Charles came out of his office and told me to bring the map colors I was using and some typing paper outside.
He lit up a cigar, asked me to sit on one of the parking pylons and look at his office building. He said, “I do not have a picture of this office on my wall anywhere – why don’t you draw one for me?” I proceed to do just as he asked. All the while, he is smoking the cigar, boot up on the same pylon I am sitting on. I finish, or so I think, my drawing of the office with the GIANT Globe of the world in the front window. He looks at it and says, “It’s not finished. Artists sign and date their work.” I signed the picture I had drawn and handed it back up to him – past the boot and up through the blue haze of smoke. He put the picture on the clipboard under his arm, reached into his pocket and pulled out a money clip. He took out a ten dollar bill and paid me for my work. The next week I was in the offices and he had the picture of the outside of the office on 7th Street framed and it was hanging in the front lobby. I was an artist. |
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