In Roosevert High School back in the late 1940s, one of the teachers there owned a unique automobile in an age before one saw very many small cars, such as MGs or Volkswagen Beetles. He owned a Crosley Hot Shot.

It was pretty light and couple two or three burley football players could pick it up and carry it. Once it wound up on the front porch of a house across the street from the school. After school, Mr. Rarig (the teacher) managed to recruit several people to help him return it to the street.

Another time, at the end of the day, when Mr. Rarig was heading out to his car, he found it in the school hall. It had been carried through one of the back doors of the school and down about five steps. And this was on the second floor of the school (the school was on a sloping street and the back of the school was one floor higher than the front) .

Mr. Rarig was unflappable. He got into the car, drove it down the hall to the freight elevator, onto the elevator, went down to the first floor, drove it off the elevator and out the service entrance at the side of the school. No sweat.

Don Firth