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Repossession history – the 50’s-60’s memoirs of Bill Bowser

The Man Came and Took it Away – published 1973

Bill had a checkered past in Kansas that started at the age of fourteen that blossomed into a stint in reform school and a number of arrests and by the time he was twenty he’d been branded a criminal in Kansas. Trying to flee his past, he bounced from state to state until finally landing in Denver Colorado, where he landed a job delivering dog food. It was there that his Mercury got repossessed. What followed was a successful, respectable and storied career. In 1973, he published his memoirs which provide us probably the best glimpse of the repossession world during the 50’s and 60’s.

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