Jim was destined to be a contractor. He played for hours on end with Tonka toys and Nylint toys. Dozers, backhoes’, dump trucks, you name it plus Matchbox toys as well. He spent hours sitting and watching homes and other buildings being built in his South Milwaukee, WI neighborhood. He even cut studs and sheathing and rafters out of stiff paper and built little houses because that’s the way construction guys did it.