He was 19 years old when he arrived in Topaz, and soon found work as an ambulance driver. “I used to drive young couples at night so they could ‘neck and kiss’ in the back of the ambulance,” he later confessed.
But the confines of camp life were hard on a young man, and Toddy became depressed. His ticket out of camp was a job as a busboy in the Hotel Utah, a magnificent hotel near Temple Square, Salt Lake City, as well as other venues.
