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- Author: Max E McVey
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Atall, attractive, and well-dressed man wearing a brown felt fedora
stood on the raised wooden railroad station platform, waiting for a
taxi.
Jojo Booker was smartly attired in a well-cut tweed one button jacket
worn over a neatly pressed white shirt, accented by his favorite green bow
tie. He had paired that with knife-edge pleated brown pants, and his brown
walking shoes bore the type of mirror shine only available from a true artist
in the shoeshine profession. A fellow traveler might have admiringly
described Jojo’s appearance as “dapper.”
The year was 1928, and it was a sparkling, unseasonably warm and
sunny day in November. Jojo was a successful businessman, an architect of
the first water, and had anyone asked, he’d have modestly admitted to being
a self-made man. He was understandably proud of his accomplishments, but
grateful for the love and encouragement (and the generous inheritance),
he’d received from his late parents.
Jojo had been born toward the end of the previous century, in 1898 to be
exact. An only child, his birth had come as a welcome surprise, arriving as
it had, quite late in his parent’s forty-two year marriage. The boy had been
dearly loved.
He’d grown up in what was known as the Shaw neighborhood in the
city of St. Louis, an older, friendly, family-oriented community of modest,
but quite roomy, one and two-story brick homes.
There was a Scarlet Oak in his parent’s back yard. At some point, a
number of years previously, three oak seedlings had apparently sprouted
simultaneously and eventually grown together to form a sturdy, multi-trunk
oak tree. Over its projected two-hundred year lifespan, it would probably
reach seventy feet, but during Jojo’s boyhood it was about 30 feet high.
That oak tree had held a special place in his heart.
As he waited, Jojo’s mind began to wander. He had always wanted to be
a builder, he remembered with a smile. He still vividly recalled the year he
turned four. He had been tightly holding his mother’s hand as they entered a
big department store, and when they passed a display that suddenly
captured his attention, he had simply refused to move forward. His mother
had noted the look of wonder and longing on the child’s face, and described
the moment to her husband later that evening, once Jojo was sound asleep.
What little Jojo had seen in the store was a beautifully illustrated
wooden box, bearing an inscription announcing the contents as “Richter’s
Anchor Blocks.” The collection of toy building blocks for children had
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