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Marion “Butch” MacCuaig is a Palm Desert resident with<br />
multiple homes and a private collection of custom and<br />
collector cars, motorcycles and big wheel bikes. His huge<br />
self-built show room, which he unassumingly calls a “garage”,<br />
is truly a thing of beauty with carpeting and floor lighting<br />
leading you through the playful path of neon lights, signs,<br />
collectable gas pumps and music.<br />
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His private residence is tucked away at the end of a street<br />
hugged by palm trees and a pool. Inside is an array of his<br />
many pieces of art which are mostly self done. First you<br />
see his block sculptures and internally illuminated sculpture<br />
podiums. Then the nine foot ceiling fan that he designed and<br />
installed hanging below the beautiful wood ceiling he made<br />
from flooring.<br />
The moon reflection artwork that you see throughout the<br />
home is of course hand made by the Man of Imagination.<br />
Daughter, Michele<br />
Palm Fan<br />
Among his designs and products are:<br />
• A recreational product that you sit on and are pulled behind<br />
a boat.<br />
• Supplements that help maintain prostate health.<br />
• Expansion joints for railroad tracks<br />
• SOS Helium filled balloon, with belt attachment<br />
• Realistic art work made by hand<br />
• Jesus plaque production<br />
• Instant alarm for home protection<br />
• Slip-on Fan Blades<br />
• Sun Tan Lotion, which bears the name of “Palm Tan” (selftanning)<br />
This man of distinction was a high school wrestler and<br />
worked 35 years as a union plumber and construction<br />
contractor. He played baseball and won a bronze medal at<br />
the “World Senior Games” in St George Utah. (We guess<br />
he does it all.) Butch has an impressive gun collection and<br />
we’ve heard he never misses his mark. He loves to go to<br />
car shows and auctions. He admires car guys, such as<br />
the ‘King of Kustomizers’ , George Barris, from whom he<br />
acquired a motorcycle. He is now personally customizing a<br />
‘41 Chevrolet.<br />
In his social life he seems to be single- yet attached. A good<br />
friend, Ellie (a class act herself), would agree. “The guys like<br />
to talk and listen to him. The gals like to be in his presence.<br />
For the man who used to be called the “Little Guy”, he is<br />
definitely making his mark and now continues living the good<br />
life.”<br />
He was born in Spokane Washington and moved to Tacoma<br />
where he lived most of his life. He married a wonderful gal<br />
named Evie. He has two beautiful daughters, Michele and<br />
Melissa, and now has two cherished grandchildren, Hannah<br />
and Aiden. Hannah is a college bound intellect and Aidan<br />
a multiple sport athlete. As for son-in-laws, they are both<br />
named Sean. One works for the government, the other is a<br />
county executive who is a permanent member of the band,<br />
Rock Slide.<br />
Now back to the Man of Imagination. He is known for his<br />
great personality and generosity. Did we forget to say that<br />
he is an Inventor? After 30 years of marriage he became<br />
divorced and moved to California. He settled in Palm Desert<br />
where he thought he would be a ‘Mister Fix It’. One day<br />
while pondering a ceiling fan, he decided they needed a<br />
better look. He designed and patented slip-on blades that fit<br />
almost any ceiling fan, thereby augmented the style without<br />
having to do any electrical work. After selling them at the<br />
College of the Desert Street Fair, he flew to Philadelphia and<br />
showed his new invention on QVC. They sold out 5 times<br />
and then magazines took his product from there. He now<br />
has perfected a “Jesus plaque” that is an optical illusion.<br />
(Does his mind ever rest?)<br />
Hannah Aiden Melissa<br />
Jesus Plaque<br />
Ellie
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