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Show SALT LAKE CITY YEARS AGO This is going to be a sort of a "Do You Remember When?" story. Reminiscenses, far back. I was reading a book giving the old pictures of Salt Lake City the other night, and it gave comment on the old landmarks. I drew on a sheet of paper what I thought I could remember of my earliest impression, im-pression, and found I had woefully forgotten so tricky is memory. On my first visit to Salt Lake City, rickety street cars were used on "Brigham Street." Who is heaven's heav-en's name ever heard of that fancy dewfangle called call-ed "South Temple Street" in those days? And how gorgeous was Amelia's Palace to us then! Where the Hotel Utath stands now, when I first saw that corner I can remember C. A. Johnson's advertising sign, second floor, a big world with an arrow through it. And a gateway for the titheing yard and city pound. The old Salt Lake Theatre and how darned rarely I had the spondoolix to git into it, and if I did in third balcony up,, "Highest Heaven,"as we called call-ed in those days. The old Walker Bank building, a one story affair, on the corner. Oh, and I must mention that when I first saw "Brigham Street," one street car track was about eight or nine feet higher than the other. Little old Mister (I've long-since for gotten his name) Shettler, ran a saving bank. I remember re-member his house well on the far end of "Brigham "Brig-ham Street." If I remember right, Pat Lanhan was the high brass in the Tribune, and "Judge" C. C. Goodwin, the editor. He dipped his pen in the blue vitriol instead in-stead of ink to write his stuff. Hotziggity! Lots later, the Kearns Mansion, like an over-gaudy public building showing off. Savage's photo shop was tucked away in some place golly I can't remember where. So now as I see the old time pictures, how '. do wish I had but loosened up on an evilly got dime and bought one! While living in Salt Lake, I took my first trip to Millard and met all the prominent ones Mr. Locust, Lo-cust, Mr. Grasshopper, the two Rattler twins, fat old Billy Gopher, Dumpy Quimp, and Mud Hen. Mud was living on Six Mile then, but lots of his progeny were scattered all over town. Lotsuv Muds. |