The Narrator Cleans the Chain Guard Under What He Calls “The Spreading Chestnut Tree.“
““The welder is in, an old man in his sixties or seventies, and he looks at me disdainfully—a complete reversal from the waitress. I explain about the chain guard and after a while he says, "I’m not taking it off for you. You’ll have to take it off." .. I do this and show it to him, and he says, "It’s full of grease." .. I find a stick out in back under the spreading chestnut tree and scrape all the grease into a trash barrel. From a distance he says, "There’s some solvent in that pan over there." I see the flat pan and get out the remaining grease with some leaves and the solvent.“(Cont.Next)
Back of property, 954 Sixth Street SW, Business District, Grants Pass, OR. Local people agree that Mr. Fixsen’s personality fits the Narrator’s description. Fixsen is his name, and not word play on what he did for his life’s work! If you have additional information or want to suggest other places for the Grants Pass Welder’s shop, please contact me.
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