Linda and Sam Dilley
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS It was 1960, and Linda Dilley was 17, working as a carhop at an A&W Root Beer stand in Lakewood.
A mint green-and-white ’57 two-door Chevy pulled up. Linda walked over to the car. Inside were 21-year-old Sam Dilley and a friend. They both liked Linda and put a wager on who could take her out first.
“He asked me out quite a few times before I said yes,” Linda said.
But Sam won the bet.
“It was me. It was love from there on,” he said.
It was her happy, outgoing personality that hooked him, Sam said.