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Show C-5 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 28 - July 1, 2008 Whiskey, nuns, millionaires in boyhood ADOPT TEXTILES & ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT! DAVIES REID A NEW PET • Continued from C-5 effect has been quite unusual," he mused. Clements remembers Park City as a blue-collar mining town. "Growing up in Park City is not an experience I would trade for anything," he said. "You could hear so many different foreign language and dialects on Main Street. It was really a microcosm for the outside world." Unlike most of the state, the population in Park City during the 1930s was predominantly Irish Catholic, not Mormon, and Clements spent afternoons shoveling the path to the rectory of St. Mary's Catholic Church. As a general dentist, Thomas Clements would often be paid in eggs, chickens and handiwork around the house, his son said. Clements senior did dental work for the nuns for free, Clements said, and was repaid in doilies and cake with frosting an inch thick. "It was so hard we had to break it, with a hammer," Clements laughed. "I think it had rum in it. We were Mormon and teetotalers but it sure did taste good." Clements remembers the nuns trudging down Park Avenue through the snow to deliver their gifts. "They wore the long black habits," he said. "They looked like they were floating." Clements and his siblings spent their afternoons playing catch, but because his house sat on a hill, he spent most of his time chasing balls down the hill. At the base of the hill, Clements recalled, was a shed with red garage doors where bootleggers distilled whiskey and planted hops. "During prohibition, federal officials would sometimes come in and destroy distilleries," Clements said. "They dumped the whiskey into the gutters on Main Street so the liquor flowed down the street. People came out with their tin cups and drank from the gutters." Clements* dad did dental work for Tom Kearns, Jr., the son of mining magnate Tom Kearns. Clements recalled a time during the depression when Kearns, Jr. stood on Main Street and gave his clothes away to children. After Kearns would leave his dad's office, Clements and his brother would turn the couch cushions over to see if;any coins had fallen from the heir's pockets. >'• In his lifetime, Clements said he has seen Park City transform C h e c k o u t FRIENDS OF ANIMALS NOW OPEN IN PARK CITY in the Park Record THE SILVER MOUNTAIN BUILDING AT K1MBALL JCT. IJI6 Utc Blvd • www.djvlcircid • 4JS.frJS.TB47 Answers for Today L A A 1 WM R| E P R N 0 A C U T E R E| | M A W 1 N 0 L A R K T M S E D L E N K C A H A M A Y E R S S T L A P E C L iS H 0 E T T ••• from a mining ghost town during the depression to a snow white ski town. "Park City was one of the poorest communities in the state, and now it's the wealthiest," Clements said. When Clements' family sold the yellow Queen Anne in 1944, they did so for $1,600, fully furnished. "And the people defaulted," Clements said. The home recently sold again, this time for $1.96 million. Discovering art Clements left Park City in 1944 to attend the University of Utah. He left college and volunteered for the Army Air Corps in the spring of 1944 for two years. Clements attended the Pacific Dental School in San Francisco and once again graduated as valedictorian. Clements practiced orthodontics in Palo Alto, Calif, and Menlo Park, Calif., and moved back to Utah in 1993. Painting became an important part of Clements' life when he started studying with art teacher Bonnie Posselli, a local painter, more than four years ago. "He was an orthodontist and that means he was very precise," Posselli said. Clements is Posselli's oldest student. "He has a great passion and enthusiasm for art," she said. "He's always been a gentleman and a very •1 A A R S T H E R A S 0 N S T R A S K 0 N 1 D E R W 1 N Y D E N 1 R T V E C E N T R E A 1 N F D E T S T Y I P E|S 0 MA M ON E Tj R R A 1 1 C A R T • E• P • U N K N 1 T 1 C E U P T E Y •1• •1 L 0 U G A M 0 L A N 1 T U A S H S s E E R A P R E D U V C M E A B L M E N A P E E K 1 N N E W A R K A V T 1 0 A N G E A L A U L P E D A L E D E R 1 T U N 0 N E T S T A R Z • • • I • •_sl I 1• ••• • I • I[7 I I I1 • • 1 I I I • • • E •• • 71 v • • •I •• s • I I I s• • A I • 71 T • 1 • p D A S Blaine Clements based his oil painting of the Silver King Coalition on a historic photograph. T R E E S 0 R F E N B A A T N 0 | G U U T 1 T L E E R IL I A S I K E D 1 S 0 N • 1 •MIO K S 1 1 NB R B RE 0 1 N 0 L | T I E NT G 1 A 1 A R H E 0 1 0 N T C J 0 M T B Y A R B E K R A 1 N 1 B T T E S N E A ~D] L "A] T R K E 0 P S 1 F A T S T R S LE SAGE "AMERICAN WESTERN CUISINE" New Spring Menu PHOTOS BY GREG MARSHALL/PARK RECORD Clements will include his painting of St. Mary's Church among nearly 40 oil paintings of Park City circa 1930s and 1940s. The exhibition opens in July. good student." Merry White is the director of adult programs for the Park City Library. She said she wanted the display Clements' art work and share his history with patrons. "One of the things I found charming is that he went to school in the building," she said. "It takes us out of - our busy detail-filled lives to remember that older people can teach us. There's nothing like first-hand accounts." The work of Blaine Clements will be on display from July 8 to Aug. 31 at the Park City Library, 1255 Park Ave. The exhibition will be the first time Clements has displayed his art in public. He said he has never sold a painting, despite many offers. ,L "They're like my children," he explained. "'But I have given some to friends and family as gifts." , Offer Expires June 30, 2008 . (dine in only) (Tax & gratuity not included) (Limit 2 coupons per t^ble) • ^m ^m ^m ^m ^m ^m ^m ^m ^m ^m ^m ^m ^m ^m ^m ^m ^m m 434 Main Street 425-655-9505 www.purplesageparkcity.com 4 T H OF JULY! PIE PRE-ORDER SALE MILE H I G H APPLE PIE MIXED BERRY CRUMB PIE STRAWBERRY AND RHUBARB LATTICE PIE KEY LIME PIE CALL 435-647-2906 FOR DETAILS OPEN MON-SAT 8 AM-6 PM SUNDAY 8 AM - 4 PM T Y L t 1750 IRONHORSE DRIVE 435-647-2906 WINDY FUDGL\ FRESHLY MADE PASTRIES, PIES, CAfCES, COOKIES AND SAVORY ITEMS.. 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