Prints of iconic PB water tower available, proceeds to help in cancer fight

Buying a nostalgic print of the Poplar Bluff Water Tower will help radio personality “Cadillac Jack“ fight his renewed battle with colon cancer, said Scott Innes, Poplar Bluff native and voice of Scooby Doo and other characters.

Innes commissioned Jack Larson, better known as radio personality “Cadillac Jack,” to paint the water tower scene to be auctioned in November to benefit Recycling Grace Women’s Center, a program for women recovering from alcohol and drug abuse.

What Larson didn’t realize is Innes is having 500 prints made of the 11x14 painting and “100% of all the money from the sale of the prints will go to help Cadillac Jack pay his medical bills.”

Jack Larson, better known as radio personality “Cadillac Jack”

Innes’ friend was diagnosed with colon cancer four years ago, about the time radio stations were downsizing personnel.

“He got cut about the same time they found the colon cancer,” Innes said.

When Larson first learned about his cancer in 2017, one of his family members said, “beating cancer costs more money than you could ever imagine.”

Larson had been in remission three years when doctors found a small lesion on his colon.

Innes wanted to help a friend as well as provide everyone the opportunity to own “a symbol of Poplar Bluff. The water tower was one of the first things people would see when they came into town. It overlooked the city. It was located at the intersection of Pine and Westwood boulevards. All we have now is the nostalgia.”

Innes called his friend, who “dabbles in art” to coax him into continuing his latest cancer battle, as well as to do the water tower painting to benefit Recycling Grace Ministries.

Larson agreed because “other people are struggling, too,” Innes said.

Innes sent a photograph of the tower to Larson. Three days later, Larson called to say the painting was done, but he told Innes, “I did my research and added a sign for the Tower Motel.”

Innes has posted the sale of the prints on Facebook and “people have been buying from all over,” he said.

The prints will be shipped by Nov. 5, which will give people buying them for Christmas gifts time to frame them. They cost $50, plus $10 shipping and handling.

To order the print, Innes said, go to onescottshop.com.