| _____Once Grant had all the weeks' assignments in hand he would hunker down at SHOUT headquarters, a.k.a. Grant's apartment, which by 1967 was in the basement at Andy and Rose Tata's house (yes, the same Mrs. T. from Mack's pizza fame) on 22nd Avenue in North Wildwood. There he would lay everything out on his homemade drafting table (actually, just an old door flipped over and laid down), the ads, articles, photo's, captions... everything that would make up the pages of that week's SHOUT. By Tuesday Grant was always in lock down mode, working feverishly to complete the layout of the paper so it would be finished by Wednesday morning when he would drive up to Blackwood and deliver his final draft to the printer. Needless to say, he never slept on Tuesday nights, thus, Wednesday afternoons were usually spent crashing at the nearest motel for a few hours then back to the printer's Wednesday evening for final proofing then printing. The papers were delivered to Grant in Wildwood on Thursday mornings followed by immediate distribution to all the motels and hotels on the island which would take the rest of the day, well into the night. For Grant, distribution was when he felt the most pressure and come late Thursday night he was always ready to unwind with a cocktail at The Riptide, knowing that by the time Friday morning broke over the Atlantic ocean upwards of 25,000 copies of SHOUT were neatly stacked in every lobby, in every establishment in the Wildwoods. This was Dennis Grant's routine week after week, summer after summer. |
