Like millions of others, Selleck moved to the LA area from theMidwest shortly after World War II. And, as Bing Crosby crooned ina popular song at the time, he made the San Fernando Valley hishome.
Selleck hammered out a living in the Post War years by sellingand leasing commercial real estate. "I don't think people realizethat he came out here... with nothing but the family car and the GIbill," says one of his sons, actor Tom Selleck. "He bought an1,100-sf house for $11,000 and he risked everything on a straightcommission job."
It was a gamble that paid off. The elder Selleck slowly rosethrough the ranks at the old Coldwell Banker Commercial Group tobecome a senior vice president and director of corporatecommunications. He left the company in 1987 to form a WestlakeVillage-based development firm known as Selleck Co.
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