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Show Park City Ti Park City, the' biggest little city in Utah, recently revitalized and rennovated, is beginning life again. But to understand and appreciate ap-preciate the "spirit" of the city, the student of "poli" must don the robes of historians and study Park City Through the Years. 1848 Brigham Young proclaimed, 'This is the Place." Obviously, the future course of history was not entirely revealed to him or ho would have taken the Saints In 1888, the more "respectable" citizens of Park City with God on their side decided to effect a reformation. They appointed a new marshal, changed the laws and effected Park City's first gambling raid. One particular madam seems to have violated everyone's sense of propriety and certain "moral zoning laws" when she established estab-lished herself in a residential section of town. Evicted by the new laws, she was houseless momentarily. She, however, pur chased a lot near . nouse, a competin,, C ment, and built L'g est "houses." Serieof The girls were rw on the main streets n f; so they set up a bi s JS. on a pole to "light Vk admirers. Undo5B known as The Great !, s throughout the 1897 .The silver mines clow with a national rS n I-: .' -3 i...' tl,' -' ' ... '--i jm .: .V-Sf ' " ; I :r I fu 4 - ' $ ' f - y , ,A v- -:- . ' A . , '.'if ' v I; , , . . -rrf' !. , , - I -i - r s I, ... .' - ' v 2 . a ..... : 111 If r- nti ? i ' fill II M . 1 " V ,v' 1 )' -III Mil ', , "Vrv-i - II lit. w " -t - on past the Great Salt Lake to remove them a bit farther from the impending influence of Park City. 1869 Twenty scant years after the arrival of the Saints, three soldiers of likewise scant fortune, for-tune, chipped in and off a quartz outcrop. The resulting assay, while promising much, could not be CAPITALIZED on for another year. The three left a broken pink-handle and a red bandana to mark their claim. When they commenced operation, they appropriately ap-propriately named their find "Flagstaff." 1870-1880 The usual flood of mining roughraf inundated the town and PaTk City began to splash, roll, rock and swing (in that order). The shambling miners and the miners' shanties together with the shacks of the opportunist merchants were joined by new buildings which lasted well, until un-til there was the least hint of flame within 60 miles. The railroad came and brought with it the Chinese laborers. They brought Eastern vices, gunpowder, gun-powder, and Marco Polo, each an exotic addition to the time-honored time-honored sins of the mining town. 01 1 TO GUARDSMEN'S PASS SCENIC GIRl SCOUT LAKES U & BRIGHTON CANYON 1 10 MILES TO BRIGHTON ' Jjl M?NeLVB' Kmo ' TO ONTARIO ll J CANYON .1 CITY HALL, X JAIL L DUNGEON W X X" lodgings! Rafter-H-Rontb-FUND Mountain DEER VALLEY . -. Silrer King Lodge Music, Dancing . snow park Chateau Apre Entertflinmeii I Chanficler Inn : Gondola lit New Park Hotel Spiro Tunnel h t TreasurerMountain Skiing Trwp l Imperial Hotel Guided Touts Star Hotel Gold Digger Prospector Hotel Barbary Coosl f: R Brown House Red Banjo Cest Bon Silver Wheel Tte'1 LA The Years 1900-1910 Evangelists of the 80s and 90s were beginning to loose hope and interest in the salvation of Park City. The "Park Record" in 1901 notes the departure of the Reverend French Oliver, who considered Salt Lake City "The wickedest city in the United States, Park City only forty rods from Hell, and the 'Park Record' editor as the ringleader of the whole business." 1 K these dire straits, ?In?f to work at desperate des- 2d in the "Park Oigg wishes a kln a sawmill and 5m engine : lit I caot get a mi", would be Vjte to accept a tie widow (no if111" ! .-. s.- v i - . r . ... . J I s J' f . - 'vKJ r - lt x- ":-.r-2r?- NS4 I t, :fr - v,fir Later Park City had its periods of ups and downs until the end of World War II, when depressed conditions became quite serious. By 1950 over 12 million tons of high-grade silver, lead zinc ores had been mined from the many properties which now comprise the United Park City Mines Company. Com-pany. This massive production played an important role in the winning of two world wars and the war in Korea. But this enormous enor-mous wartime metal production, and the fact that the mines were kept operating during the great depression so as to stay solvent, resulted in the exhaustion of the company's great, working ore bodies. This situation contributed con-tributed a great deal to the final run-down condition of Park City. By 1960, the city had virtually become a ghost town. 1962 Treasure Mountain Incorporated Incorporat-ed began operations in Park City, clearing the slopes of nearby near-by mountains to create a skiers' paradise and revitalizing old buildings and bars. The development of Park City rounds out the Alta-Brighton-Solitude cluster of skiing areas so that Utah had a variety of slopes, lifts, lodges, ski events and services unrivaled in America. Ameri-ca. Park City, in particular, offers of-fers amenities and services of an incorporated community with accommodations and night life. The streets of the town are now lined with profitable business busi-ness of all kinds, bars, resturants and theaters, attracting both instate in-state swingers and out-of-state skiers and tourists. Indeed, as one observer was overheard saying, "Park City swings." Jlli CLOTHING & GIFTS (j Antique Shop . Silver King Gifts This N' That Timberhaus m TREASURE L MOUNTAINS 1 RESORT w S'W MINERS l HOSPITAL (1904 ,. f TO SALT LAKE CITY X and U.S. 40 fnl: 1 n fatoin Inn m'f 27 MILES TO I SALT LAKe C'TY fvUmtain Activity ''iestohe.e) ' |