[78-L] Ho Ho Ho

[David Lennick]

Michael Biel wrote:
> David Lennick wrote:
>> Michael Biel wrote:
>>   
>>> Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Oh wow, I'm not the only one with a full garage?
>>>>       
>>> Are you kidding?  I don't think anybody on this list has a garage being 
>>> used for parking their car!! 
>>>     
>> Time to mention the sad tale of Toronto collector Keith Roos, who died almost 
>> three years ago..IN HIS CAR..because his house was so full of records, books, 
>> films etc. there was no room to manipulate. This really happened. It took 
>> friends three months to get the house to the point where people could walk 
>> through it (and start buying records).
>>
>> dl
> 
> The friends should have come to his aid while he was still alive and 
> help him clear up his house when he could benefit from it.  I know what 
> it is like, being alone here it sometimes approaches this situation and 
> one person -- especially if the are infirm -- cannot keep things orderly 
> all by themselves. 
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 

Believe me, some friends tried..this situation also involved a flooded 
basement, disconnected telephone lines, Keith being hard to reach at the best 
of times. Graham Newton and I knew him for about forty years. Just after 
Keith's divorce in the late 60s (come on, don't act so surprised, although he 
never saw it coming) my wife and I were going on a Saturday morning jaunt with 
Keith and his six-year-old daughter, weekend custody, when she piped up with 
the line we never let her forget while she was dealing with the estate: "Daddy, 
you buy too many records."

Incidentally, another of Keith's passions was westerns. His ashes were 
scattered over the Iverson Ranch.

dl