Show Memories of Dad Canahan Ars e As Wall WaD Razing Reveals Old Store By BUFORD SO SOMMERS l As a wall comes down brick by brick on a Main street building for many old timers and others not so old time it is as if the veil were being drawn from the memory of a beloved character The brick wall is the upper fac facade de of the Edward L. L Burton Burton Burton Bur Bur- ton Co building at South Main street and the character brought back in memory is David David David Da Da- Da- Da vid A. A Dad Callahan And the name that restores the memory is a sign now becoming becoming becoming be be- coming revealed C H. H Parsons Books Stationery That sign denotes the location of the old book store that was taken over by Dad Callahan The store to be sure went through some metamorphosis before before before be be- fore Dad Callahan got it becoming becoming becoming becom becom- ing in turn the Parsons Derge Book Bool company and the A. A R. R Derge Co and finally David DavidA A. A Callahan Successor to A. A R. R Y Derge Co J J. L. L Barrows now in th the magazine magazine magazine mag mag- azine business at 62 East Second South street knew Dad Callahan probably as long as anyone in Salt Lake City I r knew him when I was a ayoung ayoung ayoung young fellow working for Herbert Herbert Herbert Her Her- bert Pembroke and Mr Callahan used to come through Salt Lake as a publishers publisher's representative Mr Barrows recalls I r later had my own book bookstore bookstore bookstore store and Mr Callahan had one So to get me to work for him he bought me out in 1908 The arrangement was that Id I'd work for him a year then go to England England England Eng Eng- land on a mission and Id I'd have havea a job when I came backI back I r returned after two years went in to see Mr Callahan and he said All right go to work Monday I worked for him 26 years That he became known as Dad Callahan was due to his fatherly interest in and devotion to boys As a volunteer athletic coach at atthe atthe atthe the old Salt Lake high school he trained football teams al although although al- al though th-ough he had never played football football football foot foot- ball himself that earned the title A Yale university track star he came to Salt Lake City in 1898 after touring the west asa as asa asa a member of a Smithsonian Institution Institution In In- scientific party When salaried coaches became the vogue Dad Callahan quit his coaching job but not before he had helped at All Hallows college Utah State Agricultural college and the sit Utah 1 His book store was the place for many who in youth had been co by Dad Callahan and 1 the benign influence of lii terest in young people fl For all his interest in ath th there was something of the ar about Dad Callahan an M taste in books was by many a man wealthy erto er r to buy libraries outright |