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Show faritea I was amused at some of the answers to the question, Should Easy Street be saved? "This is a historical section of town, the only part that survived the fire," said one person. Historical??? Most of the houses were built in the 20's some as late as 1927. The home where Ken Shoulders lives was the Joe Weeder Lumber Yard, later Dave Scotts Coal and Avises is the oldest on the street. So far as the Heward home, it has not been lived in since Tiny Heward moved some 30 to 40 years ago. The house in Diamond Hollow has more history than any on Easy Street. Park City needs better access hi-way away from the heavy residential area of Park Ave., and it seems more feasable to build it -along the bottom of Masonic Hill than any where else. The Depot area if done right, being as it will be done, could be a beautiful park area with walkways all the way to the Mount Air Mall as well as bike paths, etc. It could be a very beautiful park like area and add beauty to the entrance to the city, much more so than the old shanties along the side. The creek could again be re-channeled back to its original bed with wooden bridges and winding paths. There is still some city owned property in the area earmarked for a park, part of the property traded for along with the Swede Alley area and the park a,s it now is, so hopefully the city will also develop this as a park to fit in with the Depot project and make this the prettiest section of town. "Easy Street" or "Bachelors Row" may be important to a few, but not the majority so I believe it should go to make way for the hi-way. The trees in question were planted by a 13 year old boy on his birthday. Sixty four years ago Fred Fuelling planted six black willow trees in the front yard of his home. These are the trees along behind Utah Coal and Lumber. When these trees were planted there was very little vegetation left on the hills because of the Marsac and Ontario mills. The chemicals they were then using was killing all the vegetation so this young boy had good reason for planting his trees. Save them! Fred says why, they grow and multiply quite fast. We need a safer highway into Park City rather than through the residential area along Park Ave. as it now is people's lives cannot be replaced, the trees can. So let's worry less about the trees and more about the safety of our friends and neighbors. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Henley are . the proud parents of a 5 pound 5 ounce baby girl born October 28. Her name is Shandra Lee and the first for this popular young couple. Proud grandparents are Phylis Sweatfield, Park City and her first grandchild and Dorothy Mosely of Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Simmons of Eureka. California were visitors to The Park for a few days, stopping off to see an Aunt Tilda Bausman. They took her into Salt Lake to visit with Teresa Petit and enjoyed the visit with family again. Paul is a security officer in Northern California, Oregon and Washington, as well as having a nursery in Eureka. Ruth Richardson has beer hospitalized for the past two weeks. She had surgery for gall bladder October 31 . Ruth is in the LDS Hospital and reports so far are good, hopefully she will be back home soon and have a fast recovery. Ethel Pederson is staying with her daughter Barbara who has been quite ill for sometime now. Her friends hope her daughter will soon be well and Ethel home soon. Lumber then the Sproule family home for many years. Some of the older places all gone now, were Mrs. Carmacks, the George Wanning Brewry, distributor of Falstaff beer, McPolin Beer house, dist. of Gold Label beer. The Crescent Mill and later a part of the Marsac Mill and used as a settling pond until the Marsac burned. The Kidder mill was in front of the Carmack house, John Lowe had stables where the Utah Coal and Lumber is now. There were sheds and barns along the area, shacks mostly. The area referred to as "Easy Street", we called "Bachlors Row," as that is what is was for many years from the early 20's through the last one William Lake who passed away about a year ago. Bill Knox is just below the others and was built by Albert Carter as a workshop, a Mr. Jacobs lived there and now Bill. Some of the well known tennants to be remembered were: Big Swede, Long John, Bob Bernie, Bethers, Carey, King of Sweden, Larry Bye, Riley and William Lake, Jim Rassmussen, Santo, Ken Kitchen, Tom Gates, Frank Watson and others. Yes, it did have history, but not the history to preserve and show as some places. The first settlers were on Lake Flat and came on down Ontario canyon. Empire and King canyon. Main street and Deer Valley, but by the turn of the century was only as far as 10th street except for a farm house here and there below. The Depot area was mostly coal sheds, barns and brewries and these have been gone a long time now. Those that are there now sprung up from old lumber and parts of the Crescent Mill, the Silver Creek of Poison Creek was even re-routed closer to the hill as it came down between the tracks and was swampy. It was channeled over toward the hill to help solve the swamp problem in the track area. Survived the fire!!! It was not there so 1 guess one could say it survived all right. The historical part of town that was left after the fire of "98" was not Easy Street, but the section of Main street from the New Deal Market South, Ontario Canyon, Empire and King canyon, almost all of the town on the West side from Main street survived except for a spot or two on Park Ave. The fire took Main Street, Rossie Hill. China Town, even these were are older and more historical than "East Street." The Burbidge home or Lake home or the Gary |