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Show V' Vage A8 Thursday, April 16. 1981 The Newspaper y ft Liu -wy "v - V r v v . MinlMaiy Stairs April 17 Jo'hn Whirley Gus Mora PatMeehan April 18 Catherine Carpenter Rob Stidham April 19 Ken Martz Marco Peretti , Erin Bolton Frank McDonald Steve Sayers Rebecca Widenhouse April 20 Dom Bonadona JeffSaff Megan Gumbrecht April 22 Jim Lea Susie Moench DO A TAKEOUT our complete menu is available for takeout Now open for breakfast Weekdays 7:30 to 10:00 Sat.-Sun. 8:00 to 12:00 Lunch 11:30-2:30, Mon.-Fn. Dinner 5:00-10:00, Mon.-Fn Sal. & Sun. 12:00-10:00 430 Hain Street 649-6900 hr:-' vy- ... - - i I 8 v .v A I Vr vv, I ZZ - v' B Rlsi V'i'sA:Nr r--y-- ........ - . v&JI KenKummer lms&sJU y rt -ffl rs life'-- " ' I ' 1 Ol- . DUILUIN 6ERVICE6 If you would like to be listed in our Building Services just call 649-9014. HOTTUBS& SAUNAS Universal Spa Systems 6980 South 400 West Midvale, Ut. 566-7727 CLEANING Millcreek Cleaners We Specialize in cleaning velvets, draperies & carpet cleaning. 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What eight delicious flavors did Mc's Drinks come in? For that matter, what were Mc's Drinks? They were a brand of soda pop manufactured and sold for over 60 years in the local area. Even Nan McPolin has to think a while to remember all eight flavors and it was her family who made the stuff! But times change. Last week, Nan got a demolition permit from the Planning Commission to tear down the old Mc's bottling plant at the corner of 13th and Park Avenue. Nan plans to sell the plant grounds and the other nearby property she owns including the home she's lived in since 1923. She and her brother plan to move into a duplex that will be built on a piece of land she owns further up the street, near the fire station. Planning Director Bill Ligety "reluctantly recom-mened" recom-mened" demolition of the building for three reasons. The building is remote from the Historic District. There is no "consistent fabric" of structures around it. And engineering studies determined deter-mined the building was beyond repair. "If it were any less than all three reasons, I would hesitate," said Ligety. The board voted unanimously to issue the demolition permit. Soon there will be nothing but memories of the days when the pop sold for 10 cents, and the neighborhood boys picked up extra money by working as apprentice bottlers. Dan McPolin bought the plant and started his pop business around 1900 or 1898, according to Nan. Her husband Edward J. took over the business in 1923. After Af-ter he died in 1957, her brother, Robert Reese, ran the firm until 1965. "The cans were coming in," she recalled. "The equipment was getting outdated. out-dated. We needed a new car-bonator." car-bonator." They could either completely renovate the operation or let it drop. Robert found a job as a road supervisor with the state highway department, so it dropped. The family soda pop recipes still are written down, though a little secret, like the Colonel's 11 herbs and spices. Perhaps one day... The pop was sold almost exclusively in Wasatch and Summit Counties, though not always. "People visiting from California would take cases back home with them," Nan recalled. The McPolins also were franchise fran-chise bottlers for other soft drinks. "In the late 1920s, we handled Coca-Cola, in the days before the trucks came up here." The plant also bottled bot-tled Dixie Cola, and in the '30s handled an exotic brew called Peerless Mist. They also mixed punch, "just for ourselves" said Nan. The old-timers remember Mc's Drinks, said Nan proudly. "I was visiting this lady who runs a store up in Woodland, and she said, 'Boy, I wish we had some of the old pop'." Of course, if you can't find the old pop, then the next best thing is a valuable old pop bottle. They're still being discovered as Park City's old buildings are being torn down or renovated. "They found some when they were tearing down the old Bank Saloon, where Janeaux's now is," Nan said. "One fellow told me he was offered $100 for one of our bottles," she said. Naturally the most valuable are the bottles marked "Dan McPolin; Prop.," which date back before the 1920s. She has one or two from that era. She still sounds a little wistful, wist-ful, though, about all the old six-ounce bottles that were thrown away at the city dump when Mc's switched to the 10-ounce size. Nan realizes it's time to tear the building down. "If we'd had a winter like we usually have, some of it would have cashed in." Her little neighborhood isn't what it used to be, she said, and new property owners are moving in all the time. Oh, we almost forgot! We can't end the story with you still left in suspense. The eight flavors were, according accor-ding to Nan: grape, black cherry, orange, strawberry, root beer, cream, lime, and lemon. No matter what flavor, she said, "People will tell you it's the best they ever drank." Planners begin to grapple with hillside hotel idea The Planning Commission began discussion last Wednesday Wed-nesday on a 133-unit hotel and commercial area planned for the city's western west-ern slopes. And it didn't take long for differing viewpoints to emerge on the project. As presented, the Nastar Hotel would climb up the hillside in a terraced arrangement ar-rangement south of the Resort Re-sort and west of Lowell Avenue in the Recreation Commercial zone. (The hotel property also covers Estate and HR-1 areas.) "I can't even begin to imagine that kind of development devel-opment up there," said Chairman Greg Lawson. Commissioner Bill Coleman, on the other hand, said stepping step-ping the building up the hill was a good way to use that land. Commissioner Walt Bishop Bish-op said the look of the hotel wasn't compatible with a mountain village town. But architect John Carbine, representing re-presenting the project, urged the planning board to be innovative. "Park City is suffering from a lack of variety," he said. "We should get away from 12- plexes and six-plexes disguised dis-guised as old mining shacks." In his presentation, City Planner Bill Ligety said, Nastar builders will work closely with the city staff and planning firm Gage-Davis Associates while the latter is developing a comprehensive comprehen-sive plan and hillside ordinance. ordi-nance. Within three to six months, Ligety predicted, standards will emerge that can guide the development of the hotel. Carbine said the topography topo-graphy of the land dictated the look of the hotel. "It would be very problematic for us to build a hotel on a hill with 20-22 percent slope if we didn't walk it up the mountain," moun-tain," he said. City planners studied a sketch of the hotel, which showed it as a sleep, massive building. But Carbine said that picture was an early drawing that now is obsolete. "We have the same design concepts, but we can now break it up into smaller masses." The commissioners commis-sioners also agreed they needed to see a revised rendering. "The angles in the picture are probably more severe than they really are," said Coleman. Carbine said the hotel balconies bal-conies would have large planters for vegetation to soften the look of the building. build-ing. Mammen said he would like to see the massing of the building broken up by clumps of trees, but doubted the planters would be effective. effec-tive. "That architecture works beautifully in semi-tropical semi-tropical climates, but I wonder won-der if the vegetation would hold up when the winter snows fly here," he said. Carbine dismissed Mammen Mam-men simply. "Nuts! We've got a 15-foot wide balcony, 12-foot deep decks, and 4-foot wide by 4-foot deep planters that would have some kind of evergreen growth," he retorted. re-torted. The plans call for 48,000 square feet of commercial space. "We may not have that much commercial, but we're providing enough parking for that," Carbine said. The space would include in-clude convention meeting areas, and inside open space with shopping areas. Besides the hotel, a series of triplexes originally was planned, said Carbine, along with a road which would run through the hotel in order to provide fire access to the triplex units. That, explained, ex-plained, Carbine, is why the hotel was such a massive structure in the early plans. "We had to work the building around this internal tube." With the triplexes eliminated, elimi-nated, he said, the hotel now can be broken down into smaller masses. The building is being designed de-signed with all the latest fireproofing systems. "It will have non-combustible material, sprinklers, an intercom in-tercom system, smoke detectors, de-tectors, voice alarms, controls con-trols for elevators, stairways and doors, and a stand-by light emergency system," the architect commented. Carbine said he wanted to continue discussions with the commission on the hotel plans. "This is a true destination destin-ation resort," he said. "Park City is mature enough to deal with it. We're talking about a Grand Hotel, not downstream down-stream stuff." TENTATIVE AGENDA FOR PLANNING COMMISSION MEETINGS Meeting to be held April 22, 7:30 p.m., Marsac School 1. DIRECTOR'S REPORT: a. Main Street Building. Decision on Demolition architectural review for structure proposed for 614 Main Street in the HCB Zone. b. Revision to Land Management Code Ordinance No. 12-79, location 2, to allow extended Conditional Condition-al Use approvals beyond one year. 2. ACORN APARTMENTS: Decision on 12 residential units proposed for 1314 Empire Avenue in the RC Zone. 3. DEER VALLEY KNOLL ROAD : Discussion regar ding Final Plat Approval for the Knoll Road section of the Deer Valley Resort road system. 4. QL'EEN ESTHER VILLAGE: Decision on proposed PUD of 141, residential units in the RD and Estate Zones in Deer Valley outside the boundary of the Deer Valley Royal Street Development. 5. SNOWCREST II: Decision regarding 13 residential units proposed for the southwest corner of Empire Avenue and 15th Street in the RC Zone. 6. SNOWCREEK: Discussion regarding PUD proposed for Hanley Ranch parcel in land proposed for annexation annexa-tion to the north of the junction of U-224 and U-248. 7. LITTLE BELL: Discussion of PUD approval for 20 units as part of the Deer Valley Resort in the RD Zone. |