He found himself in Hollywood in his transition back to civilian life. His father had been killed in a White Center vehicle collision with an oil truck.The Army released him home as he mustered out of the service. ![]() Some profoundly sad news arrived for Bobby. ![]() In the war effort, Dolores was recruited to Los Angeles to work for Lockheed. In those 28 months, it also meant he could not communicate effectively with Dolores. Bobby wound up in Italy for 28 months, fixing B-24's and P-38's that managed to return from active missions. At induction, the military decided that Bobby's small frame (5'-7") would be useful in climbing in and around military aircraft small body size is an advantage in those cramped confines repairing damaged parts. Bobby was called up from his job as a rivet bucker at Boeing. Dolores was a year behind Bobby in school but they hung out together. It served him well enough to raise a family of four with "the best wife in the world" (Dolores) his close friend at Highline High School in the late '30s. Never a realty man himself, Bobby fell into property development, taking his dad's land and making improvements. An uncle and a cousin opened Beyer's Hardware in Bevery Park at Top Hat. In the '30's and '40s, Bobby's dad acquired property all around White Center. Besides running a feed store, he was also a real estate man. When not doing that, he helped his dad at the Feed Store.īobby will tell you his dad Carl was pretty smart. Bobby could make 90 cents caddying at Rainier Golf or Glendale Golf Club. That work ethic was grew from being a kid of the Depression earning a nickel for selling golf balls through the fence at the old Lakewood Golf Course near where Evergreen High School is today. He's also the guy who built the Spudnut Shop and apartments above, one hammer and one nail at a time. Bobby was friends with the aforementioned businessmen in White Center. If you did, then you are in league with Bobby Beyers. Does anyone remember the old Spudnut shop on the corner of Roxbury and 17th SW in White Center? Do you recall the small deli, west up Roxbury, owned by Harold Hopkins? Or Walt Coy's White Center Theatre? What about Max Borgeson at Avalon Auto or Perry Clemens furniture store on 17th?
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