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No, he is the proprietor

Ambarisa das : There is Govardhan, he's the temple president. I had actually just taken initiation in June, so this is a month later. I was actually here when Prabhupada came in, but I'm not here because I'm out at the curb with the car. We had a nice white Lincoln Continental that we got from Ford Motor Company. We filled it will marigolds, it was just chock-a-block full with marigolds. Then when Srila Prabhupada came out, I offered my obeisances to him and held the door open and he gave me a nice pat on the shoulder, I always remember that, and got in and we took off for the temple. 
 
I was Srila Prabhupada's driver for his whole visit in Detroit. When you drive from the airport into the city, you pass Ford Motor Company, it's on both sides of the road as you're coming in, and there's actually this big tire that's been there for years. It came from the World's Fair, I think. In 1964, they had a World's Fair and they had a Goodyear exhibit. So they brought this huge tire. So we're passing this big huge tire and Prabhupada says ...…Srila Prabhupada had a great sense of humor…he said, “Oh, this is the presiding deity of Detroit.” Then we drove a little farther and…here’s the car here, there I am. So we drove a little farther and we passed Ford Motor Company on the left and on the right, World Headquarters Ford Motor Company it said. So Brahmananda said, "Is this where you work?" And Prabhupada said in his very deep voice, "No, he is the proprietor.
 
So we all had a good laugh at that, and then we proceeded on to the temple. We were still at the temple on Jefferson. The temple on Jefferson is in a historic neighborhood, Indian Village it's called, and we would go out to Belle Isle to go for a morning walk. It's a park near the temple on Jefferson, so we would go out there and park and then walk around. It was my job to find the proper route and no matter what route I ever came up with, we would always run into a bunch of rowdy people because it's a city park so the caliber of people in there was not so great. There would be some people that had been there all night who'd come rolling out of the bushes. But Prabhupada was very merciful, and I think he enjoyed walking there. 
 
The devotees had built Prabhupada a palanquin because the temple room was on the third floor. So they had built a palanquin to carry Prabhupada up to the top, and he took one look at it and waved his hand and said, "No, no," because it didn't look very safe. We would come back to the temple room for greeting of the Deities, and there's Radha-Kunjabehari, jaya. Govardhan was such a perfectionist that they were never ready by the time we got back. So we'd be standing out in front of the curtain with Prabhupada, I could hear Govardhan screaming in the back, "Forget it! Forget it! Just get the curtain open on time." But he always did such a nice job dressing the Deities. I think Radha-Kunjabehari were famous for Their opulence and also the opulent prasadam and milk sweets that you got. We used to steal the mangala-arati sweets after mangala-arati and go into Govardhan's office and eat them.


Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Ambarish Dasa