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Show OGDEN VALLEY NEWS February When Jack’s Shack Tim Met Lisa obnoxious! But right there and then, standing in the Valley Market, in her father’s store. . . at the coffee cart . - their eyes met and she feltcounts tummy. And try oot not wipe the grin off of on herface. Tim loved what he saw. He too had seen Lisa before while she was, as usual running around in the store. But, he noticed, no matter how busy she was, she was always ready with a smile. Now, as he stood there looking down at that lovely smile, he knew he had to get to know Lisa better. He asked the “cutie” out on a date. By Drienie Hattingh Lisa Terry, as usual, was multitasking. It was the end of the month and payroll had to be completed, a new order of greeting cards had to be stocked, and the seasonal display that she had worked on the day before just did not turn out the way she had wanted and needed to be redone. As a perfectionist, she had already decided to redo the exhibit. She looked and felt hot and flustered as her hair started slipping out of the clasp at the back of her neck. As a result of the accumulating stress, she now had a splitting headache. “What I need right offee!” she decided, “Something chocolaty and creamy!” The petite young woman opened the clasp that held her hair and swept her long blond hair back, tying it into a neat ponytail as she made her way over to Drew’s coffee that was situated in the front of the Valley Market. “T know what you need!” Drew, the coffee guy said as he saw his friend approaching. “A chocolate mocha!” “Yes please!” Lisa begged. e article on Jack’s Shack in the October 1 issue of The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS was not only full of discrepancies, but it was rampant with erroneous information. It was evident the author of the article had never been in Jack’s Shack, especially while Jack and his wife Lois were the owners and managers. The first paragraph of the article was accurate regarding the location of Jack’s Shack. The rest of the article contained statements which were completely in error. Following are corrections to that article: he drove home to his parent’s house that night, he thought how happy he was since moving to this beautiful Valley. He was tired of all his moving around—all over America. Then he came to visit his family in Eden and made the decision to make one last move, settling here too. It wasn’t hard for this wanderer to adjust in this place between the Wasatch Mountains. “Everyone was so welcoming and so kind... .” Tim says Both Lisa = Tim enjoyed their first date immensely. Tim recalls, “We went out for dinner and saw a movie. I saw right away that Lisa had a great sense of humor. This was a huge bonus for me. She wasn’t only cute, but was funny too! And I loved how she liked to eat different and unusual things. This told me that she also had an open mind.” Tim smiles that lazy, warm smile of his and continues. “After we began dating on a regular basis, we realized that in our many discussions about a lot of issues we always Tim and Lisa met over coffee Behind her Tim Lamphie resident to the Valley—walked up and greeted Drew but he wasn’t looking at him, he was looking at the young woman that stood next to the coffee cart. “Whew!” He thought. “Who is this cutie?!” Drew introduced Tim to Lisa, both of whom, for some reason, could not stop smiling at each other. Lisa had seen Tim around a few times. He was always kidding around and sometimes she thought that he was quite TIM & LISA cont. on page 12 Monday, & We N 1. Tim & Lisa Lamphier s wedding day. Volume XI Issue VIII 1, 2005 5. Henry Hislop purchased the land and a farm equipment building from Jens Nielsen in the 1920s. Henry used the building to store the huge bags of sheared wool from the Peery Land and Livestock Company after each spring shearing. Henry also used the building as a garage In the 1930s, Jack’s mother Mable traded the building to Claude Surrage, manager of the Sterling Furniture Company, for a 6 cubic ft. refrigerator. Claude moved that building three blocks east to his farm . In 1948, Jack negotiated with his father Henry for the piece of land to build the beer parlor. . Jack built the “shack” out of crates that had been designed for shipping P-39 aircraft to the USSR. He took one side off of two of the well-manufactured crates, put them together on cement footings, then added a pitched roof. To comp lete the interior, Jack installed tongue and groove pine from the Uintahs. The unique and finishing touch to the shack came from mountain folk who came to Jack’s Shack from all over Northern Utah, Southern Idaho, and Wyoming. They brought their branding irons which Jack heated on his Then burned the brands into the os pine paneling. The same pine was used to construct the serving counter and shelving. Anyone who had ever entered Jack’s Shack was amazed at the decor that they would forever remember. The story in the October newspaper article gave but a brief account of the operation of the last three years after Jack sold the Remembered shack. It gave very little information about the characters and incidents which took place in the shack during the eight years that Jack and Lois operated it Jack and Lois had a much more sophisticated clientele than that identified by the article. Their customers included Mariner Eccles, who came up from his Ogden Canyon estate each Thursday to have a beer and a hamburger, and to listen to the tales that were told. Eccles had been in the office f Secretary of Finance under President Roosevelt. He told me that he heard more basic truths listening to Jack and others in the shack than he ever got in cabinet meet- Valley, its mountains, and its numerous characters—both past and present—but also occasionally added tales from the recent war. Some of the stories told in Jack’s Shack included: 1. Lois shot a mountain lion from her bedroom window after midnight because she heard something spooking the horses. The lion was found in the corral the next morning. They had a lion rug to verify the story. This anecdote was reported in the Ogden Standard Examiner. 2. John and Ray lassoed a bear in Snow Basin, brought it in alive, and put it in a fence outside the American Legion Hall. 3. Wowser reported a fight between a porcupine and a jack rabbit, which was challenged by Utah State University as being a false story. ND THE Page 8 4. Jack Dempsey and his tenure as a Valley citizen. 5. There were numerous stories about Whiskey Joe concerning how he got the name “Whiskey,” how he once was called “Sing Sing,” and how, prior to the World War II, he trapped and sold skunk pelts. So I sum up my reminiscence of Jack’s Shack. The writer of the October article apparently never stepped foot in Jack’s Shack, nor did he ever listen to the stories told there. He was only told that Jack owned and operated the facility. Jack and Lois sold JACK’S SHACK cont. on page 10 February 14th Please join us at the Grille for a romantic candlelight dinner for 2 in our scenic dining room. To help create the mood we will have live music playing softly. 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