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Show I vniEwiPflDnNTr Page A12 Thursday, September 29, 1988 Park Record Let the Record show... DV JJ?.E3AS; ' 1 t As Jimmy Buffet would croon, "Oh yes, it's been quite a summer." Take the pulse of the town and you'll see it quickens. There is a sense of vitality, an excitement, excite-ment, a momentum building. The numbers are still rolling in and actual sales tax figures won't be final until sometime around January but there's no denying summer business of all sorts was up this year. From concert-goers to construction numbers there was just more happening hap-pening in town. Charlie Wintzer summed it up nicely this week when he said, "When Park City invested in itself then people started to invest in Park City." (Which, of course, if the tax initiatives pass they will retard future growth but that's a separate editorial.) It has only been in the past, say five years, Park City has taken an aggressive stance in creating a summer market. Aspen has been in that business for more than 20 years. This summer preliminary ChamberBureau figures show overnight visitors to be up over last summer by about 25 percent. We are starting to feel the effects of an aggressive marketing campaign and enough special events to anchor the summer as its own destination season. The sense of excitment on Main Street is visable. This week the completion of the Jeff Mann buildings along with the RDA walkway topped top-ped off by a vintage-looking street clock all together mark the finest new addition to the street in recent memory. The public restrooms across from the Mann buildings (also funded by the RDA) and Mike Doilney's new brick building promise pro-mise to balance the street. Then there are all the renovations of late the Irish Camel, Park City Pizza Company, Alex's and Texas Red's. And, of course, there was the welcome news the Memorial Building sold to someone who wants to use it to put entertainment on the street. Summer saw classic events such as the Art MnitM'fiaIl Festival and 4th of July and Miner's Day celebrations celebra-tions complimented by new additions like the Highland Games, the Mountain Men and the Utah Cycling Games. Thousands of people came here, enjoyed the festivities and presumably went home and told thousands more people about the town. Existing businesses from Dolly's to Family Jewels say they had "a very good summer." And on the horizon? Park City Ski Area formally announced this week that for the first time in history both the men's and women's World Cup races will open here Thanksgiving 1989. This winter the ski area will celebrate its 25 year anniversary and traditional popular events such as the U.S. film festival and Senators' Cup promise pro-mise to bring an increased measure of returning and new guests. Some individual lodges are already reporting their bookings for the season "are much better than last year." Look, we're not trying to bury our heads in the powder we know we have had two bad snow years and that has taken it's toll on businesses and property values. But we sing the doom and gloom tune enough around here. Right now, this very minute, there is a momentum building and an excitement ex-citement in the air that has been missing for oh-so-long. The City, the Chamber Bureau, big and little business have all had a hand in the transition. As the new exhibit at the museum on Main Street displays so accurately, for the past 100 years it has been the position of this paper to express ex-press its opinion on the state of. the town. We wouldn't want this positive place in time to pass without it being duly recorded here. . . Dance Fever here I come! ' ' . X, This wee tot, barely bare-ly able to climb the curtains in the living liv-ing room, found Main Street quite danceable Saturday Satur-day night during the Street Dance. Rumors were that Dance Fever is interested in-terested in signing her to a long term contract. ,- it . , 5 ft j .-- H' If ' , jr. ':- Jennifer Madgic JW 11 ( EWOU&H FOR BOTH OF US , THUMBS DOWN - to the professional Russian Rus-sian basketball team for beating the college boys from the U.S. This was the same supposedly sup-posedly amateur Russian team which played the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA and gave them all they could handle. It's time to allow U.S. professionals to whip up on the professionals from the rest of the world ! THUMBS UP - to the efforts of the Park City ChamberBureau and the Park City Ski Area in hosting the more than 150 Delta Travel agents in town last week. It appeared that a good time was had by all, so that should translate into some nice future bookings for the town. THUMBS UP - to the coverage of the XXIV Summer Olympic Games by NBC. Using a variet, of personable anchors, NBC has avoided the boredom and mistakes offered by ABC's sole anchor, Jim McKay, during the Winter Games. Also, NBC pulls away from events if they get boring, unlike ABC, which stuck with deadly hockey games until the bitter end at the expense of more interesting in-teresting events. THUMBS DOWN - to the idiot who tried to steal the skis out of the hand of George, the ski statue, in the Ski Team Pocket Plaza on Main Street. All they managed to do was break off the hand and damage the statue. The skis aren't an operable pair anyway, jerk! If you were able to drop everything you are doing and pursue anything you'd like, what would it be? r " I NBTTK . J.-'- J V X i I i 1 -- jf" , T 'j ' ' "1 . x ; I '1 ; ? I - 4 'JL V 1 l V, 'Kjf- , ! ? ' ' 4 1 i i,.... - ,ii..i i Mimi.nii,.- I ' Jim Piani I'd ride my bike forever. lore specifically, I d finis rst in the Snowbird Hi Peter Marth Mr. Volleyball Annette Worlton Matt Lindon Gene Herrera Tanya Swenson More specifically, I'd finish I'd be a pre-1950's bike sional river rat. first in the Snowbird Hill mechanic. I'd want to be a profes- I'd visit every great place I'd be a professional I think it would be fun to go - i ! 4.1 -i a a. ? a . . - in the world for at least a tourist. month. over to Hawaii and train for the Ironman Triathlon. Climb and the Tour D'Suds. |