Once Upon a Time

In a land far away, and a time long ago Kadizzle lived in a mansion, actually two of them,  a least part of one.  Kadizzle grew up in Wheeling, West Virginia.  In 1894 Wheeling was the richest city in the United States.  With so much wealth incredible mansions sprung up everywhere.  Sadly no one could afford to live in these houses and many of them were turned into apartments, or torn down.  There were a lot of these Great Gadsby houses.

Young and freshly out of college Kadizzle had a decent income and needed somewhere to live.  Somehow Kadizzle ended up on Howard Hill.  Howard Hill was were the gazillionairs of the 1920's lived in our town.  The first attempt to live in luxury ended Kadizzle up in the servants quarters above the garage of a rich old lady.  The old lady had an apartment remodeled there to put Kadizzle up.  The old lady was eccentric to say the least.  She farted like a truck backfiring when she walked across here huge living room.  The living room featured a unique picture of the universe with light actually coming from some of the stars and planets.  The woman's husband had been an avid stamp collector and he built a huge walk in safe in the basement to store the stamps.  Kadizzle lived there in the early 70's.  The stamps had lasted this lady a long time.  If she needed money she just went into the vault and got some stamps to sell.  Claiming Kadizzle had broken her washing machine she had poor old Kadizzle evicted.

So down the street to Shadow Knoll, probably the most splendid mansion in it's time.  The rich old fellow who originally built it must have been rolling in cash.  All the stone and wood was imported from Europe.  The garden as you approached the front entrance had geek statues, and urns.  By the time Kadizzle moved in things had fallen into a state of disrepair.  The living room which also was used as a ball room was huge.  It was so big the kind old lady who now owned the house lived in the one big room.  When the house was originally built the  owner got mad at his wife.  He let her live in the original mansion, and build an equally large addition for himself in the back.  It was in the addition where Kadizzle lived.  In the main home there were magnificent features like a Tiffany stained glass skylight over the landing leading to the second floor.