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Show CE MAY CLYDE’S 1995 BILLIARDS The back bar is rumored to have come from the Old Oak Saloon on Change has come slowly here. The naugahyde-covered bar stools and tables now see women come in for a brew and some chatter — something that’s only happened in the past six months. Still, its a quiet place. “In six years, we've only 86’d about three people,” Johnnie says with pride. A Park It is ornate, big night in the place never tops more richly carved wood that speaks of a time when red velvet might have draped the windows and _ shinny brass railing would have been spit polished to a mirror finish. Shots of fine whiskey would, no doubt, have been slammed down on the counter. Today, it’s hard to see the bar for the barnacles that have attacked themselves to it: picked eggs, cigars, chips on a wire stand, pretzels in a jar, Tabasco, mustard, salt and pepper, a couple of cash registers, and plastic clocks from various beer manufacturers, some that date as far back as the ‘50s. Over at Clyde’s Billiards in than 20. The regulars are mostly construction workers and with all the growth in the Heber Valley, there’s plenty of construction these days. There’s a jukebox in the corner but, “It gets drowned out by the damn television,” mounted above the bar. A Place to Shoot the Bull by Teri Orr City’s Heber Main City, Street. you can get yourself a beer and a game of pool, or you could throw darts, play cards or try to find where TILT is on the pinball machine, but don’t expect drinks with fruit or little paper umbrellas. This here’s a beer bar. It isn’t open past say 11:00, “that’ late enough for us,” Mormon owners Marv and Johnnie, who close Sunday. “We need a day off and that’s a good one to take.” There’s no phone “Makes it easier,” in the place. says Johnnie. “You don’t have to lie.” The deer heads on the wall are local trophies. “Shot over to Henefer.” But the elk came from Canada and Blue Mountain, near Vernal. Years ago, they used to sell lots of cigars and they still have some of the old “2 for 15 cents” boxes on the back bar. The boxes are right under- neath the Fisher Beer sign, a mounted fish, circa 1950, they say came from McPolin Brewery in Park City. These days, most folks here drink Keystone from the can or Coors Premium. Bud runs a distant third. ‘Course none of those beers are advertised with neon signs in the windows anymore. Since the state law changed in 1990, all the sign out front can promote now, is billiards Marv Marv, the proprietor, in front of Clyde’s in Heber. — and so it does. That was two years, Tink, when had the owner, a stroke. years, had the place was known as Tink’s, not Clyde’s. Marv remembers cleaning out spittoons while his dad tended bar. His father also was a high priest in the Mormon Church and a long time scout master. Tink loved young people and he’d let them come in the bar to play pool, but never have a beer until they turned 21. He was a local legend, who had once put together an All Star basketball team. The trophies are left to verify their success. Tink loved basketball and never missed a home BYU game. “In fact they made him an honorary cheerleader,” says Marv with pride and the loneliness of someone who has lost a hero and a father. There have been other moments of fame for the bar — a couple of film crews have used the place as a great backdrop for the Old West. Waddie Mitchell, was filmed here at the bar and fake beers” in a lived Crossroads the side, and he starts all over cowboy bobsledder has claimed his or her medal and the 2002 Winter Games are declared closed, Salt Lake City and its surrounding Olympic venues will return to being a winter sports center for world-class athletes and recreationalists. Tourism and publicity will increase for a time before and after the 16-day Olympic festival in Utah, but the visiting athletes will ultimately exit and Utahns will be left with three constants: A mountain of memories, a high quality of life and events, and the Winter as the site for ski jumping, bobsled- ding and luge. No new roads need to be built to the mountain venues in Park City, Deer Valley, Bear Hollow, Mountain Dell and Snowbasin, he emphasized. We cannot roll back the clock. Utah has been discovered and will continue to grow regardless of whether Salt Lake City hosts the 2002 Winter Games. Our charge is to ensure growth is undertaken with an Continued from page 11 Part of the CUP Completion Act, shepherded through Congress by Jake Garn and former Congressman Wayne Ownes earmarked $50 million for conservation. To this point, poet however, all conservation measures have been voluntary, said Karen Ricks, who heads up the conservation program for the Central Utah a sound the last skier, environment. skater or @ PAGE see allotted to Garn explains 20,000 acre feet per most cases, in the way 18 he Utah water law of conservation,” them, water it, without conservation additional Ricks said. @ water users ‘can loose their water right, according to the law. Historically, water conservation may not have made a lot of sense. As The district's goals are to save 20,000 acre feet per year by 2002 and “In in vast Neither agricultural nor municipal water users save money by using less water. And by not using the an stands grown When water not used Salt Lake where But with the explosion along District. small, fields, but as scattered individuals. ty to put a frame of quality around the growth we already face. Utah’s Water Resources May Run Out and Robert Urich sat “drank on of those scene for the shortTV series. never one again. @ biathlon year by 2010. And although some headway is being made among agricultural water users, water law gives no incentive to them or municipal water users to make conservation efforts. have But the next morning around 10:00 he unlocks the weathered doors of the black and gray Victorian front building that visibly leans to environmental conscience. Becoming an Olympic city is an opportuni- farther from urbanity, but Sego is there, easily found among the sagebrush and grasses. One reason they are seldom seen is they bloom for only ten days. Also, we are usually looking for larger or more numerous flowers. Sego Lilies are short and and “Hell, at my age, I should be retired.” - YES Sports Park at Bear Hollow will serve Lily Continued from page 4 bulbs and roots grow with Sego (onions, parsleys), it is possible that these were mistaken for Sego bulbs. Sego Lily grows in areas easily accessible, especially on _ level foothill benches where housing developments are sprouting. Wildflower watchers will have to travel weath- Continued from page 12 arena will house women’s hockey. The University of Utah will house the Olympic Village, Mountain Dell Park will host crosscountry skiing and Water Conservancy Sego have OLYMPICS Marv’s They hoped to bring Tink in to see the new bar, but sadly, he passed away two months before the re-opening. For Johnnie “I like it. I can be alone with my thoughts,” he says. The pair wear western shirts with pearl snaps and Johnnie’s has an embroidered yoke. She is younger than her husband’s 67 years. They stand side-by-side as they talk about the history of their business. It is the stuff cross-stitched samplers are made of. ' “You can’t be on this side of the bar and drink,” says Tink’s son. “You learn there are people you can trust and people you can’t trust,” his wife adds. Marv doesn’t know how much longer they'll keep the place going. the same year the bar was remodeled and reopened. It had been shut down for father, and ered plenty. Marv doesn’t drink anymore. Johnnie never has. They lost a daughter in a car accident, they have a boy serving a mission, other children have married and provided them with 17 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Marv still runs a few head of cattle, not the 100 head his father once did, but a few. reservoirs, flows to the Great it is lost anyway. coming population the Wasatch Front, may become increas- ingly important. Whether Utah water law changes to allow for conservation, remains to be seen. But certainly conflicts like the one at Bear Lake will become more common and price hikes, like the ones in Park City and Salt Lake City, will become the rule rather than the exception. @ |
