Dick Blunt, tobacconist extraordinaire at Loveless Motel,

shares with us some of his private photo collection

including a rotogravure of his two "uncles",

Mr. Thaddeus B. Packin, and Mr. Peter S. Tirring,

standing outside their photography studio,

who met years back in the steam room of a gentlemen's club

at which they were both members, in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

 Dick says they broke him in pretty good,

and eventually fronted him the money for his first business venture

as an agent for male circus performers,

such as sword swallowers, muscle men, contortionists and the occasional geek.