In 1968, when I was going on my mission and we had to spend a week at the old MTC downtown SLC, we went to the Hotel Utah to have our meals.(Anyone remember their rolls?)
Sometimes we walked outside and a couple of times we took a short cut in the parking garage where the GA's parked.
Being the car geek that I am, I noticed one time that in the parking slot for David O. Mckay was a kind of beat up VW Beetle. No one seemed to know if it belonged to him or not.
He was already a really old man and probably wasn't driving then, and I always thought maybe a secretary or a family member drove it.
I remember the car next to the Beetle was a big ass Chrysler Imperial and I think the spot belonged to Hugh B Brown but don't remember.
Then, after I was home and married, (1973 I think) we had moved into an apartment in Holladay and in the ward lived both Legrand Richards and Bernard P. Brockbank.
We were invited one night to a wedding reception, I think, and saw Legrand driving up the street is his big Buick Electra. And he was old then, too.
memikeyounot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I remember the car next to the Beetle was a big > ass Chrysler Imperial and I think the spot > belonged to Hugh B Brown but don't remember.
I was told he liked Cadillacs and my grandfather had one of his old ones. He liked expensive things. I know that but as to big, I think most cars were big back in the day.
Neil Maxwell was a Mercedes Benz guy until he made Apostle. Suddenly he was driving A Chevy lumina. wouldn't have looked good to his peeps if he drove a Benz.