Show NO CROWDS AT SECOND SOUTH AND MAIN 40 YEARS Forty years rears ago the pedestrian 5 passing the corner comer lit Main and See Sec Second ond South streets would n nOt t have seen the activity which makes this the busiest corner In Salt Lake at the 4 present time The Walker Valker Brothers 4 bank building built In 1859 stood then as It does now the home of financial activity but across the thet street on the other corner there was wasa t a frame building occupying the site of the pr present sent White house building 4 4 Forty years ago on this most Im Important 5 comer of Salt Lakes busl ness district there were no street streetcars St cars with their clanging bells beIls to warn the passersby to move no tel telEphone telephone Ephone or telegraph poles extended 4 west on Second South street no mounted or foot policeman was necessary 4 essary to keep the crowds moving or orto orto to Stay them when drays and street streetcars ears cars had their turn at passing At that time the population of the city yo was small and few people were to be seen at anyone any one time on the unpaved streets n this district When Walker Brothers bank build 4 Ing was erected In 1859 It practical practically ly marked the southern boundary of the business district A little later laterO i O what Is now the White house cor corner corner ner a frame building was erected 4 4 and extending west on Second South 4 4 there was a row of frame 4 4 structures As shown by the picture 4 4 or of the old Second South business I 4 district forty years ago there was a frame structure on the site 4 4 where the Cullen hotel now stands 4 4 It was occupied as a dance hall In Inthe 4 the upper story and a saloon In the 4 4 ground floor 4 Residences crowded close In to this 4 4 row of buildings on Second South street and there was practically no 4 business district further south In 4 fact not all alf the homeS home had given way at that time to the encroach encroachment 4 t 4 ment of business as Is evidenced b by 4 the tact fact that a home still stood near 4 the frame structure on the site of the Cullen hotel Gold Cold Du Dust t Bought was the sign which graced the north side of the 4 Walker alker Brothers bank building forty 4 years Ears ago At that time there was 4 little money In circulation It was 4 difficult for mine owners miners or 4 those who received gold dust In pay for goods or for labor to Jet get money for It and the banks had practically 4 all the money y In the state Thus the 4 sign People who had gold dust went to the banks and received Uncle Sams currency for It 4 With the removal of the awning 4 from In front or of the building a lea fea feature 4 ture of the days of forty years ago the old Walker Valker Brothers bank build Ing looks exactly as It did then The 4 4 structures north of It on Main Maln 4 were not quite so pretentious 4 as at present f 44 4 1 4 1 4 4 i 4 t I |