European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse March 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 modern living by Jules Loh associated press kit Salisbury of West Palm knows that Grant Wood painted american that Bach wrote the Brandenburg concertos and that Merle Haggard sings okie from he can Tell you whose likenesses appear on All the he can name the ingredients of eggs Ben and can identify the unnamed country on a map of Africa As he also can Tell because he had to just what knowing things like that leads it leads to a garage Sale to end All garage does the name kit Salisbury sound a Buzzer for four months last off and Salisbury be came a Folk hero to lobster shift retired Hospital patients and others who watch daytime television game he astounded them with his Range of dazzled them with his charmed them with his shy while at he racked up in Cash and a list three typewritten pages Long of prizes Worth i had decided from the Start that i want going to keep any of the Salisbury i would have to pay taxes on and i figured i had had a reasonably full life without so i decided to hold a garage he put an and in the paper game show 50 to 80 percent his driveway was woefully invade so he hauled everything to the local Flea readers didst have to be told who was doing the by kit Salisbury was a local it was one wild he it was two wild in a saturday and the first Day there must have been some just came to look and some asked for my imagine most of the people who watch the show around Here Are in their 70s and so i attracted senior citizen the game he cleaned up on was Salisbury knocked off 38 opponents in 26 appearances before he got he misspelled like this he did not put up for Sale his seven priced at but made a separate arrange ment with a local car dealer for each his own 65 Mustang serves him just he he did not sell his six expenses paid which were not he did not sell an electric which he the rest he unloaded on that glory Day in garage Sale he got rid of a few to two Freez a microwave he parted with dishes flatware his anther ten Nis Golf two rowing two dishwasher and one of those telephones that does fancy a photo kit Salisbury at his garage Sale of he sold pots and More More furniture enough to outfit a Small Man Walt a Bale of doritos Gallons of sunny Delight fruit drink smokers pol ident cough syrup floor Wax Salisbury was there to do he sold gift certificates for he sold a stereo system for less than bargain Day on the Dixie the Dixie Highway is in Florida is one of 14 states on the Atlantic without pausing longer than four can name the other try at All that remained How could anyone live without it was a brass wine opener with Uible stand and retail Price you can have it for he told a Man who seemed mildly give you when that was gone and the crowd he phoned his clean out the he she arrived with used old the usual garage Sale and that if you spell Knick Knacks As two you Correct kit Salisbury is a 34yearold provider for a wife and daughter of his Given name is he took an anthropology degree at the University of did graduate work in history at the University of with never a he of the real when he finally gave the real world a he went into the furniture All my since i was 5 or i had one secret i wanted to be on a game they fascinated for some i seem to remember that other people things like state presi i dont Call it which i understand to be useless can knowledge be useless one a year he saw a notice in the tic Tuc dough would audition for contestants in West Palm the first 350 postcards would be one person would be n i drove straight to the Post that my card was postmarked Salisbury makes a pleasant his hair is his pants pressed and he Speaks in Complete it was not surprising though he says he was astounded that he was i began boning i studied the i studied people Magazine they ask a lot of celebrity 1 worked at like Jack Nicklaus and Chris i knew it was when i lost it was a lapse in i know How to spell but i have no i Haven gone a without somebody asking me about the expert in resigned to that and try to handle it i wont be at a loss for conversation at cocktail parties for a Long my one aim was not to let it change my Way of living or of i believe Ive done my other aim was to sell everything so after i would have to i might even have done belter than that ill know after the accountant gets so All that loot went on the almost during the he noticed his wife wearing a very handsome Gold with i Why dont you keep the she Why dont you keep dessert of the Erma Bombeck suppose a lot of you got parking meters for Christmas last a Friend of mine watches when the City puts the old ones on Sale and was kind enough to put one under my it May just have been the most inspired addition to our House since we put a basketball hoop Over the clothes at firs we were hard pressed to know where to put but decided since the to set attracted the greatest num Ber of it was a place to i from Here on its going to Cost you to Park in front of the to you got your meter Here that explains it each Nickel buys you 30 one dime 60 Nickels and dimes what a they at the end of the the House had raked in then business fell whats the matter i asked one of the Arent you watching to today and pay a Nickel for a half hour of yoga Are you crazy the next Stop for the parking meter was another prob Lem the for we have had an Over parking problem which didst seem to the parking meter did go Check your i said to my 1 think his meter is his meters All he but our son has there is no sound in there at Hes there All right with Headphone and people mag Tell him Hes about to be As the traffic fell off in the we moved the meter to another limitless parking zone the the kids became absolutely paranoid about their one evening As i walked by on my rounds and chalked a warning on a i heard my son so youre a wrong keep Ive still got 30 minutes left on my the real test for the parking meter came when we finally attached it to the refrigerator Ever time the door opened they had to put in a Nickel for the first 30 minutes they stood then one night we did something rather we towed our son you dont he 1 was just waiting for you to come along so i could get change for a Quarter he was towed away three months ago and can you believe no one has claimed him c news group
