Left in the Dust: BYU's Reluctant Response to the Rise of the Automobile

Authors

Caleb Child, Brigham Young University

Keywords

BYU Campus, Campus Parking lots

Abstract

Although Brigham Young UNiversity students and faculty have changed throughout the years, one issue has managed to unite all members of the campus community for almost a century: campus parking lots. As a student in 1946 wrote,

"It goes without saying that we don't like muddy shoes and don't like bad roads; bur what can we do? The natural solution to the problem is to let the school go back to the horse. No parking problem, no roads to worry about. Just put the feed bag on old Dobbin and !er him roam rill school's out. Then a quick whistle, a leap to the saddle, and the sound of hoofbears fading away in the evening dusk. Sounds good? No, that's no solution. We gotta keep the auto, find the good roads, and hope by then "parking" isn't much of a problem."

Recommended Citation

Child, Caleb (2021) "Left in the Dust: BYU's Reluctant Response to the Rise of the Automobile," The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing: Vol. 50: Iss. 1, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thetean/vol50/iss1/4