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Show THE WAY WE WERE THE OLD MEADOR HOME: Onc of the oldest Moab homes to survive Main Strect development, it was finally torn down in the autumn of 1995. Incredibly, it could have been worse. The site was originally proposed as a truck stop, but the Moab City Council, in a rare act of resistance, refused to allow the developers to cut down two old mulberry that grow on the city easement. Ultimately Taco Bell bought the property and kept the trees. ‘ DOWNTOWN MOAB (right): Herb Ringer's classic photograph of downtown Moab was taken in 1948. He was standing in front of what is now the Poplar Place. Moab could not have been a quieter town half a century ago. The uranium boom was still a few years away. And tourism? Arches saw about 10,000 visitors annually in the early post-war ycars. Today many of the buildings seen in Herb’s photograph still stand. A Photographic record of the way we have |