Larry Davis:
CLASS OF 1971
Tates Creek High SchoolClass of 1971
Lexington, KY
Lafayette High SchoolClass of 1971
Lexington, KY
Jessie M. Clark Middle SchoolClass of 1968
Lexington, KY
Southern Middle SchoolClass of 1967
Lexington, KY
Clays Mill Elementary SchoolClass of 1965
Lexington, KY
Larry's Story
College
UK is really a vague memory. I went straight into Architecture from TC - that was a mistake. We were near the end of the draft for Vietnam, I still played in a rock group, and enjoyed mind altering substances over serious study!
I left Lexington after my first year, living near Boston, MA. Three of us lived in my VW Bug and a small one man tent on the Cape in Salem.
When I came back home, I took a job as a commercial pressman in a small printing company. I had worked for the UK Printing offices since I was a junior at TC, only leaving that job when I ran to Boston.
I never found my way back to UK.
Workplace
I worked at UK while at TC and into my first year in the college of Architecture. I left school to "find myself" and when I returned home I went to work in a small commercial printing company. I married Debbie (my wife of 34 years) and decided I wanted more than a life running a printing press, so I was persuaded to start as a salesman at Don Jacobs Olds/Honda/Jaguar & MG's. The sports cars and Hondas were the draw! I despised the mentality of a car salesman, but Mr. Jacobs has trained hundreds of Lexington's successful businesspeople. That training helped me as I continued in my career. I went back to printing, this time as a sales manager for another small commercial printer - DL Graphics, where I worked with people still influencing the printing and advertising business in Lexington. From there I have been an owner and partner of Byron Page Printing, Advertiser Printers Lexington (API) as well as co-owned The Chase Agency - a design and marketing firm primarily for the Thoroughbre...Expand for more
d industry. In 1994 I had burned myself out - or so I thought, and allowed my partners to buy me out. I worked for my old company as sales manager until a close friend in Louisville spilled his guts about the major problem he had marketing a cutting edge audio/video product nationally. I offered to act as a consultant, and ultimately went to work for him - working from my home office on Bellefonte Dr. In 1995, my friend found out he had cancer, and Debbie and I volunteered to move the family to Louisville so I could help run the business for him until either he recovered, or his two young sons were experienced enough to take over the business. Both of those things took place and by 2001 I was "deadwood". I began to have symptoms of some type of liver disease, and found out that I would need 18 months of drug therapy to attempt to stop the disease's progression. My friend found that my frequent bouts of sickness brought on by the therapy was just too much for him, and I was asked to leave. Such is life.
The next year, Deb and I made the move to the Orlando area - Winter Park to be close to her parents, who's health had declined. They needed someone close, and we love the heat. Deb's dad has since died but her mother is still in the area. We'll stay here until that changes, and we may just make the move to the Pacific someplace. We always joked about moving to the islands, but as the joke continued to be told, we got more and more serious about it.
My health is still a serious concern, but who knows, just may have to sweep the sand out of my grass hut on the beach before it's all over! What a shame.
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