Comments on: Latter-day Saint Images, 1927 (2)

By: kevinf

kevinf — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:14:01 +0000

We put glow stick juice into Mento and Diet Coke fountains in there.

Talk about your layers of awesome!! Video, please!

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:25:33 +0000

Three hits for me on this one. My first area on my mission was Liniers in Buenos Aires. And, for my last family reunion, we went to that cave in Idaho Falls. It’s a lava tube that was more than 20 miles long until they blasted it to block it at about 1/4 mile. The entrance is just a hole in the ground, and above it is the flat, sagebrush desert and lava flow. Invisible until you walk right up to it. I’m sure it was really something to explore back then.

We put glow stick juice into Mento and Diet Coke fountains in there.

By: Colleen Willis

Colleen Willis — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:46:42 +0000

I love all of these photos Ardis. I’m pretty sure one of the Missionaries on the middle row of the Manti Temple Missionary one is my grandfather. Awesome memories of his service in Sanpete.

By: Amy T

Amy T — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:15:48 +0000

Naah, you should never reveal your sources. : )

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:22:33 +0000

Should I confess how little of that I knew without the help of Google? Will that peel away a few layers?

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:48:53 +0000

There are too many layers of awesome in that to count, Mark!

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:28:28 +0000

Those folks in St. Joseph, Missouri, are standing in front of an auto dealership–and it’s a wonderful coincidence that a bunch of Mormons are standing in front of a Marmon-Rickenbacker dealership, instead of, say, a boring Chevrolet-Buick one.

Marmon manufactured cars from about 1902 to 1933, had its headquarters in Indianapolis, and is perhaps most famous as the manufacturer of the Marmon Wasp*, which won the first Indy 500 in 1911. (And which, by the way, was the first car with a rear-view mirror.)

The Rickenbacker Motor Company had a shorter lifespan–from 1922 to 1928. Headquartered in Detroit, it was founded by the World War I flying ace, Eddie Rickenbacker. He had some great ideas (four-wheel brakes for safety, high powered engine for speed, and low center of gravity for passenger comfort) but the venture failed. The manufacturing equipment was sold to Audi–and for all I know was used to make my dad’s 1970 Audi.

*Not to be confused with Ab Jenkins’s car, the Mormon Meteor.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:54:37 +0000

Fixed. Thanks, manaen.

By: manaen

manaen — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:27:45 +0000

Thanks for this! BTW, "Limiers" likely should be "Liniers" in Argentina.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:18:47 +0000

I would say yes that is Elder Talmage in the photo, as he was the European Mission President in the late ’20′s.