Horace Elmore heard about Real Change from his brother, Larry, who is still a vendor. That was when the paper had its office in Belltown. “I was one of the early ones. I’ve been a vendor ever since. I had another brother selling Real Change, but he passed away.”
The Elmore brothers came to Seattle from Dallas. Before that, their father was a farmworker. “We grew up on a plantation in Bryan, Texas.” Horace picked corn and cotton on the farm. “That was a lot of fun, to tell you the truth. It was a big family — 11, by my mom, and then my dad had three more kids.” ...