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Show JULY:>, ha 15 • Ee Park RcairJ \1S\U ANNIVEHSARY ISSUE • 2005 • When Mac JYlcLonauah onaugny moved me Linotgpe to JV1organ in 1956, Lynx Langfora moved with it worked in Morgan for 20 years until .onnniicd from J><j 14; McConaughy went broke." doors down from 77><r / W £ Record. Although The Record continued to Thar building now houses the Irish appear every week in Park City, the resiCamel restaurant. dents didn't respond well to the move of Madeline was also a talented musi- the production shop. cian, playing piano in one of the local "Some of the guys standing watching dance band;.. us moving the machines were giving Lynx and Madeline bought a small Mac hell for moving out of Park City. house on Park Avenue and Sixth Street They didn't like it." (it still stands on the corner behind With mining at rock bottom by the the Park Hotel). mid-1950s, there was little chance that Lynx's photo albums also document another tenant would be found for the another milestone: the purchase of his old Park Record building. first car. It was a 1929 two-door "After they moved the equipment and Chevrolet, which he bought used from everything to Morgan it stayed empty, his wife's half sister for the princely And then they had a heavy winter and ¥•'*• "•"•< >i Fletcher, former head of the ski school .it Snow Park (now the site of the Deer Valley Resort) where Park City's first mechanized ski lift was built. "Oh, Mel Fletcher? Hell yes. I know him. He's a kook ... He had his nose into everything, everything but work. Yeah, I know Mel Fletcher and I knew his mother. His mother was a pianist." (Mel's mother, Blanche Fletcher, used to play the piano at silent movies in Park City. She died in October 1982 at the age of 94.) As a matter of fact, Lynx also has relatives still living in Park City - a sister, Dorothy, and a brother, Fred, better known as Paddy. Dorothy lives up on Norfolk Avenue (pronounced "Norfork" if you con- Park City. "Why they closed it 1 don't know. The kooks up there. Closed all them good schools and moved them down on the flat. And then they had to buy trucks to take the kids to school." His voice rises in an expression of disbelief. "Then they moved the LDS church from Park City down beyond Kimballs Junction," he chortles. Lynx also shakes Ins head over the decision to put homes and businesses on top of the old mine tailings dump now known as Prospector Square. "Instead of them people going up there and removing all them tailings until they hit rock bottom, they built houses on top of with glee that the (own whose residents were once treated with disdain by the rest of Utah is now a resort community with an international reputation. And he marvels that The Record has now grown from eight pages to as many as 56. When hefindsout that his name is back on the subscription list he'll probably chuckle and shake his head. But when the paper comes, he'll look at it, if only to see what kind of a job those newfangled typesetting machines are doing. 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The paper was taken over by his son LePage, better known as Lee. But Lee outlived his father by only eight years. "Lee died in February 1956. I think it was February. And Joe Street and I ran the paper from the time Lee died until April, when Mrs. Raddon (Lee's widow) decided to sell it. "We didn't have any experience outside of mechanical work. But people used to write stuff down or telephone it in. We didn't have much to do outside of clipping stuff out of the Salt Lake papers. The Record was sold to H.C. "Mac" McConaughy, publisher of the Morgan County News and the Summit County Bee. "They come up one Sunday with a big truck to move the Linotype out to Morgan. I was out of a job so, just on curiosity, I walked uptown and watched them load it on the truck. "And McConaughy was short of help so he said, 'You want a job?" And I said, 'Sure!' "So I went to Morgan Monday morning with the same old Linotype and 1 the damn thing caved in and they tore it down ... Ir would probably have been in the late '60s, I imagine." It was while Lynx was living in Morgan that Madeline, his wife of almost 40 years, died of a heart attack. Retirement finally caught up with Lynx Langford in 1976, when The Park Record changed hands again. Once more the printing shop was moved, this time to Heber. And new owner Richard Buys didn't need a Linotype operator. The faithful Mergenthaler ended up on the scrap heap. Lynx stayed in Morgan for another year, then moved co Salt Lake City. For a while he kept in touch with his old hometown, either through the pages of The Park Record or on an occasional visit. But he admits that he's not as well informed anymore. A slight stroke five years ago left him unable to drive. And changes in the population finally prompted him to drop his subscription to The Record. "I quit because they're aJl new-timers. The old-timers are all gone, all moved away or either died with Miner's Con. I don't think there's anybody up there that I know anymore." Then again. Lynx does yield to an occasional exaggeration. When pressed, he'll acknowledge there are some people in Park City he knows. People like Mel f- r/1Vfate Bayer 1-866-772-2937 II sider yourself an old-timer) while Paddy the damn tailings. Now they're scared the has a house on Park Avenue near the old kids arc going to get leaded." (now abandoned) Park City High School. But in spite of the bluster. Lynx drops litThe relocation of the high school brings tle hints that Park City and its newspaper Lynx to another pet peeve about the new are still a source of pride. He points out 0^ ' Ceiufn Rnuk-tkvu Apply, Ruui (!* not:Kcfl«ci APR. CaJlTodiy few cfautb * Kw tfoice t fiolMok tSui Recreational or Conservatory Level Courses Available Vtafi Conservatory PASSPORT , . . 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