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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, April 1-4, 2017 Continued from A-10 Martinez passes DENNIS HANLON Your Tuhaye Connection loader from the mine and turned the wood-frame building into matchsticks. “Our theory was to get it down, get it cleaned up and get a new building sitting there before anybody even knew about it,” he said. “The plan was to have the new building in place by Christmas.” But people noticed. There was an outcry among everyone from beer drinkers to preservationists. “You can go back through some of the Park Records,” he said. “One writer there wrote that they could hear the old miners groanin’ and screamin’ when they tore The Cozy Tavern down.” When a subcontractor set up wooden forms to pour concrete footings for the new building, demonstrators set fire to them. Nevertheless, with the help of Rich’s nine kids, the partners forged ahead with their new restaurant, The Carbide Lamp. They decorated it with old maps, discarded drills, small ore cars and other items rescued from the mines. From a company in Denver, Rich bought carbide lamps – which the miners used to wear on their helmets – and converted them into table lamps. The restaurant opened in December 1979. However, it wasn’t long before Dozier announced that he wanted out of the restaurant business and sold his share to Rich. Like The Cozy before it, The Carbide Lamp turned out to be more of a headache than a money-maker. “And we finally just shut it down and sold it. We knew we couldn’t run it. It was too much of a job for us to run.” After acquiring The Carbide Lamp, the new owner changed the name but continued to run it as a restaurant for a while, Rich said. Since then the building has housed several different retail businesses. “So that’s about the extent of The Carbide Lamp,” he said. “It was a big venture for me, you know. When you’re young, you think you can tackle the world, but when you get older you learn, ‘What the hell did I get in that for?’ “But when you get through to the end of your life you realize that, well, if I wasn’t in that, I wouldn’t be where I am now, or vice versa. There’s things that happen in your life that change your paths, where you end up, what you do and where you go. “So it was a good experience. It’s a few stories that I’ve got that I wouldn’t have had if I hadn’t have done it.” 1 3/28/17 9:01 AM A-11 THE SMART NEW WAY TO BUILD YOUR LUXURY HOME © 2017 Gardner Group, Inc. “Through my lifetime, everything that I’ve done, I was never afraid to try something new… It got to the point where I could visualize in my mind anything I wanted to build,” he said. One of the most technical jobs was reconstructing an air compressor flywheel that had to be cut in half to fit through tunnels leading into the Ontario Mine. Engineers told Rich he would not be able to put it back together to create a perfect sphere. However, he managed to weld it back together within 1/3,000th of an inch of a perfect sphere, and it continued to function until UPCM closed. Another example of Rich’s handiwork is still in use in City Park. “The superintendent of the mine … came to me ... and he said, ‘Rich, can you design us an ore car and make a grill out of it?’” Rich said he and his co-workers modified two five-ton ore cars “so they could have a fire in the middle of them and cook on the top of them. … They still use them on the Fourth of July and Labor Day or whenever they want. We built those right up in the Judge Shop.” When Bob Birkbeck retired as foreman of the machine shop, UPCM named Rich to replace him. The machine shop eventually moved into a new building at the Ontario Mine. For about two decades, in addition to his full-time job at the mine, Rich drove around Park City twice a day delivering the Salt Lake daily newspapers – the morning Salt Lake Tribune and the evening Deseret News – to local subscribers. That job not only put him in the business of spreading the news. It also put him in a position to gather news, though not the kind that made the paper. When it came to knowing what was going on in Park City, he was almost up there with the telephone switchboard operator. “It got to where, you know, I knew everybody in town,” he said. “And deliverin’ the newspapers, I’d go to their houses monthly and collect for the newspaper. So I’d get to talk to a lot of ’em.” Like most Park City businessmen of the time, Rich had to strug- gle to balance his books. “I’d keep their papers goin’ even though they didn’t have any money and couldn’t pay the paper bill. I’d keep the thing goin’ for months. And some of them caught their bills back up, and some of them didn’t,” he said. As if that wasn’t enough, in 1966 Rich applied for a midterm vacancy on the city council and was appointed by Mayor Tom Sullivan. In those days, he said, the city ran on a shoestring. He produced a copy of the 1967 budget showing that city revenues that year were $92,876. Rich’s knowledge of the mines made him irreplaceable, since the tunnels were the source of much of the town’s drinking water. He was also willing to take on jobs that no one else was willing to do, such as volunteering to serve as dog catcher because the city had no money to hire anyone. He served a total of 16 years. In 1972 Rich took on yet another challenge when he and his father bought The Cozy from longtime owner Hugh Steele. By this time the ski resort had been running for almost 10 years, but many of the old-time miners were still wary of the longhaired newcomers, especially in places such as The Cozy that they regarded as their own turf. “When me and my dad went in there … our attitude was, ‘Hey, if you want to come in and have a beer and behave yourself, fine, come on,’” he said. Rich said he quickly learned that running a bar came with its share of hassles. “To run a business you’ve got to stick with it and see where everything’s goin’. And that’s what was happenin’ with me. I wasn’t knowin’ where everything was goin’.” By the late 1970s, owning a bar was starting to wear on both Rich and his father. About that time, he said, he was approached by Jack Dozier, then the principal at Park City High School. Dozier moonlighted as a developer and had visions of creating a place in Park City for his sister, Sue Haygood, who was a master chef. “And he knew that I owned The Cozy,” Rich said. “He said, ‘Why don’t we open up a restaurant? Why don’t we tear The Cozy down and open up a restaurant?’” One weekend in May 1979, Rich borrowed a Caterpillar 950 Gg_ShowcaseQtrPage_032817_final.pdf The Park Record BETTER EXPERIENCE. BETTER RESULT. BETTER VALUE. Felicity Gardner, Interior Designer Murray Gardner, Project Leader Park City UT | 435-640-5184 | gardnergroup.co V isit our web site gardnergroup.co and download our free e-book “Top 7 Things to Know Before Build ing Your Park City Dream Home” COME HOME TO TUHAYE A Spectacular Golf Course Community Just Minutes from Park City 435.640.5851 dennis.hanlon@sothebysrealty.com Call Dennis for a complete list of homes and lots for sale in Tuhaye. 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