MenuByIssueShareNotes2 CommentsIllustration by Edward KinsellaAug 22, 2018Aug 24, 2018This article originally appeared in the September 2018 issue with the headline “The Man Who Walked Backward.”His professional life in Abilene had begun six years before, in February 1924, at age 29, when he struck a lease deal with C. Hall for the north half of the lower story of the Morgan Jones building, at 127 Chestnut Street, in Abilene’s busiest district. He opened a restaurant, Crescent Cafe, soon after.By 1925, American capitalism churned like a hungry machine. The number of manufacturing facilities...…MenuByIssueShareNotes2 CommentsIllustration by Edward KinsellaAug 22, 2018Aug 24, 2018This article originally appeared in the September 2018 issue with the headline “The Man Who Walked Backward.”His professional life in Abilene had begun six years before, in February 1924, at age 29, when he struck a lease deal with C. Hall for the north half of the lower story of the Morgan Jones building, at 127 Chestnut Street, in Abilene’s busiest district. He opened a restaurant, Crescent Cafe, soon after.By 1925, American capitalism churned like a hungry machine. The number of manufacturing facilities...WW…