Squint Shot 060610

Have you ever written your name or a note on a wall before wallpapering it, or etched the date into soft cement, or left your mark somewhere in a building to be found years later by someone else? I know I have.

Well, as I'm wandering through the future location of Maria's School of Dance, toward the front of the building, wood paneling had been removed and, of course, something out of the ordinary caught my eye. The Keeslers were the owners of the furniture store before Ron Daly. Sometime during their tenure, it would appear other remodeling took place. But before the original walls were covered, James Charles Keesler decided to leave his mark. Dated March 14, 1972, he wrote, "roses are red, violets are blue, this store is younger than you!" Now wouldn't it be interesting to know who he was writing about.