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This is one of a series of stories we are sharing to show what’s inside CubeSmart. You not only get a peek inside our customer’s storage unit, but also a peek inside what is important to them. Thank you to Sandra, a customer of our CubeSmart store in Lake Worth, for sharing her story with us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandra Thompson, also known as \u201cThe Palm Beach Artist,\u201d is an 80-year-old widow and mother of two \u201cbachelor sons.\u201d She quips that she has been a \u201cterrible example\u201d for them as the possible reason they remain unmarried. She\u2019s got a sense of humor, and it\u2019s apparent in her sly grin and the satirical paintings she has hidden within one of eight books she\u2019s authored, \u201cPalm Beach, A Retrospective, The Art of Sandra Thompson.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She says she\u2019s working on her 9th book now, which will be an autobiography. While most of her books have been about Palm Beach and it\u2019s history, she says she has an interesting story to tell as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in NY, she grew up on the North Shore of Long Island and studied art and design at Cooper Union before working with Grey Advertising as an assistant to the art buyer for Chanel, Inc. After that, she became an art buyer for Redbook Magazine. She moved to Fort Lauderdale in 1961 and took on the role of the first editorial artist for the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun Sentinel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandra met and fell in love with her husband,\n18 years her senior, and retired from the newspaper to raise their two sons.\nShe says she performed many art commissions and played a lot of golf and tennis\nduring this time. She used to be an avid golfer, even traveling to Scotland\neach year, but now she has \u201cplayed enough golf for a lifetime\u201d and arthritis\nhas set in. She\u2019s played a variety of sports, but according to her, \u201cgolf was\nthe hardest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her husband of 43 years passed away 6 years ago. It was his upbringing in Palm Beach that inspired her love for the \u201cculturally rich\u201d area. After he retired in Fort Lauderdale, he moved them back to Palm Beach in 1999. It\u2019s then that she began the work of writing a book about her husband\u2019s memories of growing up in Palm Beach. \u201cI help people tell their stories,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also began painting pictures of some of Palm Beach\u2019s most iconic locations and buildings. Her talent was discovered by the Palm Beach Board of Realtors, who began purchasing her artwork to grace the covers of its monthly magazine, The Palm Beach Real Estate Guide. She\u2019s since produced artwork for over 80 covers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While she\u2019s done some traveling to places like Arizona, New England, and San Francisco; she\u2019s content with staying in Palm Beach now that she\u2019s older. She says, \u201cI travel through my artwork. Every painting is a trip.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandra\u2019s been a customer at the 1900 6th Ave S, Lake Worth, FL 33461<\/a> location for about eight years now. She needed a place to store the 5,000 copies of her book (mentioned previously) and loved that she could store them in an air-conditioned unit on the second floor. She says she doesn\u2019t have to worry about deterioration or flooding. She keeps some of her artwork in there, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She only visits her unit once a year, as she\nstops in to pay her annual bill in full. Her black slacks, black long-sleeve,\nbuttoned-down shirt, hat, and scarf, allude to her New York origins. She\u2019s\nrecently had a fall but says that it could\u2019ve been much worse, though her\nmemory was affected by anesthesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandra continues to paint, sculpt and work with stained glass; and reminisces about the art gallery she once owned for eight years. When asked if there was anything else she\u2019d like others to know about her, she exclaims with enthusiasm, \u201cGod is my producer and director. He gave me life and directs every moment of that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’d love to her how self storage has positively impacted your life. Share your #HumansofSelfStorage story in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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