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Show rrr Page A12 Thursday, August 16, 1990 Park Record AtimO n) M (Dees It ooo I . i ee how good r 111 i& i iresn-Daicea can This summer, let La Petite Boulangerie do the baking for you. Choose from a variety of fresh-baked breads like French Baguette, Nine Grain, Honey Wheat Berry, and Sour Dough Loaf. And, while you're at it, pick up some delicious bagels like Cinnamon Sugar, Onion, and Sesame. Or try a flaky croissant filled with cheese, apple, almond, fruit, or chocolate. Or enjoy a marvelous muffin. Like Banana Walnut, Oat Bran, Raspberry, Mandarin Orange, or Chocolate oe. Get 3 FREE fash-baked croissants when you buy 3 of your choice. Chin. ! And, naturally, we have a I variety of delicious cookies from Chewy Chocolate to J Oatmeal Raisin Spice to I White Chocolate with Macadamia. . So, treat yourself to fresh I goodies at La Petite I Boulangerie. UouL langcnc. PR 815 I Offer valid through September 15, 1990 at all . participating La Petite Boulangerie stores. 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PARK D!Y AUDIO 6 IV lB4 SALES 645-7592 REPAID -1 645-7593 1 10 YEARS OF AUDIO EXPERIENCE CUSTOM AUDIO, VIDEO & SATELLITE INSTALLATION PRE-WIRING FOR PRE-CONSTRUCTION lOOO BONANZA DR., PARK CITY, P.O. BOX 601420 LOCATED IN THE NEW PARK CITY PLAZA, SUITE 118 BY TOM CLYDE Resort town archaeology After traveling around to other ski resort towns and looking things over with a fairly critical eye, it's always nice to come back to Park City. We do things pretty well around here. But we are also very similar to the other towns in terms of the organic progression of the town and the community. communi-ty. In almost every one of the ski towns I've visited, and for that matter other resort towns, the same patterns seem to emerge. I asked a wizened, bearded old archaeologist about this at the Sawmill Club in Ketchum and was amazed at the depth of both his knowledge and his glass. He explained that there is a constant churning of the culture in a resort community, not unlike the turnover of the waters in a lake when the surface cools in the early winter, allowing warmer water from the depth of the lake to rise to the surface. He explained the results of a recent archaeological dig to me: The town was settled by the Old Ones, the Anasazi, who are all gone, leaving only a few traces of their past. Current residents prize these relics. In most of the ski towns, the Old Ones are miners. In the beach towns they were whalers and fishermen. For some reason, we don't know exactly exact-ly why, the Old Ones vanished. Archaeologists believe that the disappearance of the Old Ones is related to the collapse of metals prices or the exhaustion ex-haustion of some natural resource like gold, silver, mackerel and blubber. In Idaho, they could have won the lottery. So the Old Ones leave, and the towns fall into disrepair and disuse. After long years of deterioration, these nearly abandoned towns are discovered by a new and highly mobile culture arriving ar-riving fresh from yet another failed college experience. ex-perience. Archaeologists call them the Hunter- Gatherers. They are driven by a need to ski, surf, period was marked by a greatly increased stan dard of living, in which old VW buses were traded into new Audi Quatros. The days of cheap housing were over, and the remaining Hunter-Gatherers were completely driven away. Most of the Carpenter Culture fell into decline at this time and was forced to learn how to gather a whole lot more than they had so far, or live on the fringes of the resort society in places like Carbondale, Basalt, HeberandKamas. The Basket Makers, who flourished more or less simultaneously with the Realtor-Developers, although they always drank at diffferent bars (except (ex-cept at fund-raising times), make their living by putting up art galleries and craft shows which pandered to the need of the Realtor-Developer to acquire Objects d'Good Taste for their homes. This period of development is marked by a great influx of rich tourists who would spend short periods in the communities and generally grow to like them very much, and buy property there at inflated in-flated prices. In almost all of the resort communities archaeologists ar-chaeologists have excavated to any substantial degree, the Basket Makers seemed to have survived surviv-ed for a longer period, while the Realtor-Developer Realtor-Developer culture gradually faded as a result of having built on all the available land. They were replaced by the Blue Chip People who are, for all practical purposes, indistinguishable from the marginally civilized Cro-Magnon Man except that the Blue Chip People enjoy much better cash flow. The Blue Chip People have emerged in every resort community to a shocking and garish extent, spending lots (meaning absolutely, incomprehensibly, incomprehen-sibly, incredibly large amounts) of money on monstrous houses of questionable taste. The Blue Chip society is consequently very popular with the or live someplace with relatively lax law enforce- Basket Makers, who can unload art by the train- ment. The Hunter-Gatherers arrived in these car load. Archaeologist have also studied the rela-semi-abandoned towns and lived in old houses that tionship between the Carpenter Culture and the cost next to nothing. They developed economies Blue Chip, and have identified a kind of symbiosis based on recreation and pharmaceuticals that despite the fact that there have been no would make a tolerable living with a six-month demonstrated cases of socialization or corn-season, corn-season, allowing plenty of free time for doing what munication between the two. the Hunter-Gatherers do best, hunting, gathering Some of the most interesting digs were in the and partying. seaside resort towns along the Atlantic Seaboard. There comes a time in the life of every Hunter- It seems that the same cultural evolution occurred Gatherer when he or she realizes that life can be a there somewhat earlier than in places like Sun little easier if he or she hunted a little less and Valley or Park City. Following the development of gathered a little more. The dividing line between a thriving Blue Chip society along the coast, the end of the Hunter-Gatherer culture and later places like Newport, Rhode Island underwent a developments is therefore a blurry one, but the dramatic transition. The large houses of the rise of acquisitiveness generally led to the Newport Blue Chip People fell into disrepair and Carpenter Culture, where the Hunter-Gatherers were abandoned. Some were preserved as began to live in houses with water tight roofs and museums, although most of them were eventually central heat. Eventually they do things like buy cut into numerous small apartments with central-car central-car insurance. The Carpenter Culture, which metered utilities and dirty, foreign speaking flourished in most resort communities in the landlords who never fix the boilers. , - 1970s, was a highly successful period of cultural Archeological evidence found at several development. " Newport excavations suggests that the Blue Chip The Carpenter Culture gathered a lot in a short People were eventually replaced by a culture that time, laying the foundation for relativley modern k surprisingly like the Hunter-Gatherers. They Realtor-Developer Culture and the equally refer to the Blue Chip People as the "Old Ones developed Basket Makers. The Realtor-Developer Who Left." ttn5Ike sq VeSim BY TERI OUR The summer tour '90 We have seen the enemy and it is... I mean they are... I mean we might... oh hell, another road trip with Rademan's Raiders proved once again Park City as a show plays better on the road than in our own hometown. Last week city officials and public-minded bodies bonded together to visit the ski towns of Sun Valley and Jackson. Nearly 40 of the town's best and brightest and then the rest of us learned how other towns deal with hillside ordinances, historic preservation, employee housing and all that other fun stuff it takes to run a modern ski town. Sometimes you need to leave the mountain to find Mohammed. In visiting other resorts I am always struck with the obvious you can't get from here to there, easily. All that Chamber hype we take for granted is true no other ski area is 45 minutes away from a major international airport. In the case of the city ci-ty road trips however, this provides some of the most valuable time on the trip. It is a chance to talk to decision makers from both the public and private sector in a private setting. Sharing with each other, listening to each other, relaxing with one another, we learn as many valuable lessons as we do from meeting with various out-of-state officials. of-ficials. You also learn in a van the eclectic reading tastes of people you are getting to know better minute by minute, and yes, hour by hour. You learn their bladder capacity, their musical tastes (Greg Goodwin from the ChamberBureau gets the award for best varied musical selections) and their eating habits. Susan Glassman really does snack on green beans and carrots. Alan Agle prefers Fritos to Cheetos, and Jennifer Harrington Harr-ington wins the most creative award for putting together a wonderful hors d'ouevre tray from the shelves of a truck stop. In each town we did as our fearless leader told us we met as a group but we also peeled off for separate meetings with our counterparts. In Sun Valley this meant talking with the publisher of the Idaho Mountain Express, Pam Morris and .her husband, the former mayor. They told us, as the good bedfellows politicans and newspeople can be, the inside track on how housing decisons were made, the poor relationship between the community com-munity and the ski area and the fragile balance. between protecting the view corridor and finding affordable land for affordable housing and new schools. But then... we also met with my friend's friend who has a second home in Sun Valley. Bobby Quinn, has been the director of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show for 28 years. He and his long-legged attractive and terribly witty wife served us ice tea and great stories as we sat in their fabulous retreat. (Yes, the rich do live differently than you and I for one thing have terrific down-filled couches...) Later that night at the Christina Inn we saw the television star of Batman Adam West, along with Mrs. Sun Valley, Mary Spiegel, whose family has that little catalog business. We heard stories of Mary Hemingway singing at the piano bar there, and I admitted I had made my singing debut there 12 years ago. It was one of my shorter careers. We also ran off and found the hidden Memorial to Pappa Hemingway and then we grabbed a drink in the Casino, a dive Pappa drank in. Look, I can just listen to lively banter about floor area ratios for so long... In Jackson we listened to presentations on land trust foundations and employee housing concerns and some ever-present Chamber and real estate cheerleading stats. Then we floated down the river to try and process our collective knowledge and find out the best place to dance. Mayor "Buddy" Brad Olch and his escort, Randy Ran-dy Montgomery rode their motorcycles on the trip and found kindred souls with the Harley folks at the Cowboy Bar. On the whole I think we learned we'd rather be from here, with all its growing pain problems, than say, Philadelphia or Sun Valley or Jackson. And it strikes a vein with me and god this is painful to admit that for all our shortcomings and all the , shortcomings of the people who represented us on this trip Dorothy was right there's no place like home. The people who make up this community are still some of most enthusiastic, en-thusiastic, creative, caring people in both the private and public sectors anywhere. They can still compromise and they are still committed to the greater good. And did you know Harry Reed does a hellava Texas swing? The things you learn on the road... f |