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Show WASATCH rs HE OF MOUNTAIN ne TIMES Way: PLACES SILVER SPUR by Teri Orr Park tells City resort is community. And | accept support it tinue that, and to live standing make have because But when found at a be Albertson’s, there isn’t my “I and a car on Main and drive Street, out I get where times the county becomes the country and find a few and places time the Central Utah stuff bar puts legends the origin Francis, consensus are made of The somewhere — Silver in the that Spur in 1950s. It the night parents Lake used City Even The a and up cut couple current tells to come then, won away. Vicki, a of me her from Salt mean is a shelf place pool three showing shooting teams now End, in Heber, Creek Inn up (that’s wards), last year’s There were in the competition Other Samak in contest. were figure it bad won. But this the and road Kamas the form — The a spelled other two year, so Over biker club makes the mostly, its a neighbor- of place. Last week, I when I was name, good. Tammy they tell isn’t there me_ this stories Tall, because, day is the known well — she n't show up band, so Vicki door. “I had the on the had night to take Vicki they Tammy “She women and present owners, was a the intimidating the men.” The recognition in these with name parts, Osguthorpe (my husband’s uncle in Park City, Vicki piece. The irides- two now. cent stripes up the front are laminated in, onto the wood-toned says. plastic. I know if I bit down on the statuette’s brass-colored pool cue, it would flake off in my mouth. So I don’t. The Silver Spur (it was also called Fort Oly for a spell in the ‘80s) some- under a contract to buy the place and have years. The for the past restaurant “Ever since the damn there isn’t enough is closed road business,” Then re-routed I realize, she meant not the damn traffic, when back I asked Jimmy country laughs isn’t was of their if living somewhat and I laugh around throws his ciga- loud and then look and ask about food. Vicki says no, about The the dam she does woman and road. Then serve beer. looks in the at Chums-wearing blonde leather her male jacket, companion. Her hair just so, in a rolled bun, her a beer light. “I'll just have to have and one way,” she about a game cigarette coos to her of pool here, any- friend. “How in the mean- time?” Chummy don’t need to smoke,” says, ordering nothing. blonde doesn’t blink. (Great name for a movie, don’t you think?) She orders grabs a beer, a pool bums cue. a cigarette I watch her and break. She takes a few pins out and lets down project started construction. Leaning up against the bar, Jimmy PAGE her waist-length, over-bleached 17 rumored table t date the place opened, It shows an in a lace is There She when- old-fash- camisole has taking cue her with stick in shot. Her in the is a jukebox apparently playing George | hear tresses. it a three house times favorite in an hour a couple of songs that are either or Marshall Tucker. Maybe both. “When we first home when I agreed to just thought knows that place, leave I'd husband, drive now, so Alan, and home shouldn't. here,” anybody Everybody they let us drive I sleep a lot better.” The Silver Spur at from the outside. to look at from in this they'd says Vicki. “So, my and got all the time about customers dri- ving ski-sweatered, shinny gold earrings reflecting the red, Coors neon one to the’ pool is ‘have split up the back Woman,” we leather skirt and black tights with black flats she which and worry tells them ladies that’s the one CESS. to see who's listening. Nobody, “you the Jordanelle pr next was. bloomers Waylon it appears. explains the except Strait’s rendition of The Eagles’ “Witchy are really great,” he says out even is a sim to be old in block, that woman hand Then, of them walls pine — bloomers. — with a wink. went the dam road — the buck doesn’t floors appear The the wall that ioned that house cinder back to when lace on The picture kind hostile for him. The road — a Some give scar- is have A couple of strangers enter the bar ‘didhad work On | like they’d silver some a round folks write on my ask — is. her off and says. as is naughty rette-hand back. “These guys are great. but about who which inhaling whether or not. He play real are the bar. The look — in the looks pretty well affixed to the barstool like Tammy, says hand-tooled belts well — some, around here “Butch” out the norm. wood. room for the meaning House all standards, The Spur ple place. when was the beers are one bard the spins The the says. he was when-she Vicki that after and I did the quite a a dozen By in ever guys and in these parts play months accident and number puts a coma draft, here on the Jordanell the bar bought a big deal: apiece young. in he Not par- Kamas He first thing cigarette,” I glance of one left, says that’s about the just cigarette the came back, then, above deeply. there, explains) are working what appears to be a by men I ask to see a trophy and am surprised by the lightness of the statue after being handed for their Spur is in first place. a metal and wooden up, a guy who actually Silver woke out of it a stop in the pool table was dominated ing back- far, The kind her a beer,” in teams. but ... Like the time the bouncer Beaver to ask who Barons But Tammy The piece, dancing, holidays. plumber/cowgirl, that displays, with great pride, the bar’s second The pool. And for of trophies hood on my their talent. There on A lot of the women rug. trophies only for another by women. Jimmy, and-white tile floor saw couples jitterbartender/owner, band Fourth of July, they had a pig roast and summer. was called Chickadilly’s and the blackbugging a Salt Lake always the of — mostly potluck. Project forgot. It is the general has Bout body and die years spur proof was two parking place to be found in gor x a few her she project cal his takes working construction on a in no-name Vicki explains Arizona, at home his mouth local = u in Salt Lake after in is living lot, ago owned recuperating. to out Lounge is back a isn’t the s Years he 3ut he sometimes, cart life. City ents to of it. there shopping As blonde e accident occa- I might says. City accommoda- tions his of at this point | State Street to under- the sional in he Radio con- choose there, me the closet a a way no isn’t much Hell, its not much the inside. terra to look But it’s real cotta-tiled, upscale watering hole can touch. The real west isn't some architect-designed log cabin with a climate controlled comfort zone and a Range Rover in the driveway. is tucked away in hundreds the-way places, dress and speak and live simply. where It of out-of- people still @ Terri Orr is the author of “Sisters In Silence,” spouse a abuse non-fictional to be account released of later this . year. She also is a former editor of The Park Record newspaper in Park City. |