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Show I 9 SALT FLAT NEWS, SEPTEMBER, 1970 Art For Park Citys Sake PARK CITY, Even the sun seemed in no Utah weekend of summer. Cars cruised that end near the hurry y die old into town, slowly mining past the abandoned coal company building. Two sharp turns, a neat gray and white railway station on the left across from die restaurant, and traffic crawled slowly up thriving drive-idie main street only to turn around at the top of die hill and crawl down again. five-stor- n It was Park City's first art festival and its success assures it an annual place city's calendar. on-th- e What could have been a failing mining town is now a gold mine for artists. The artisans, young and old, serious and commercial, are snatching up ramshackle buildings on the steep main street for gallery-studioIt's becoming THE place for art s. Close to seventy-fiv- e hundred people were present for the art show featuring paintings, sculpture, leather goods and trivia by exhibitors from Utah, Idaho and two-da-y Nevada. The work was mostly sincere, some just fun and most of it overpriced, although prices were cut as dusk approached on the final day. One couple spent that afternoon getting married in a ceremony with music by a rock band. The town's Labor Day ceremonies will continue die mining flavor of Park City, but the summers should turn empty clapboard buildings, once thought unusable, into outlets for an artists colony. NEWS staff photos |