PHOTOGRAPHY BYDAVID SINCLAIR


town where his grandfather started a fur- niture store. As a young man, he delivered furniture with the men who worked in the store – an early introduction into the mov- ing business. He also worked for the county for one year painting bridges using green Army paint left over from World War II. “One of those bridges was so far back in the woods, I think only one car a year would cross it,” he said. “The whole time we were


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out there painting it, we never had any traffic.” His path to owning his own moving


company was a little indirect from there. He spent some time in the Army, managed a Cleveland car wash, and worked for the Coast Guard as a civilian. Then in 1964, he took a job with the U.S. Secret Service, where he worked for most of the next six years. He was never an agent, but he did


perform handwriting and laboratory analy- sis. While he never actually guarded Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, he did see them and developed a deep respect for the agents who kept them safe. “They were very serious about what


they did,” he said. “And the fact that they would lay their life down for the President


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