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Show Day's Market Undergoes Facelift Day's Market on Main Street is getting a new look. Under the guiding hand of Dick Kaari of Park Valley Associates, workmen have removed the old awning from the building and are chipping away layers of old paint. When the job is complete, the building will boast a new paint job, new woodwork, and a new awning done in a dark rust color with a white stripe. A sign will be attached to the front of the building above the awning. Work is expected to be finished by the end of next week. The building is owned by Mrs. Thelma Reseigh, for years a prominent Park City resident whose husband was mayor of the town on four different occasions. According to Mrs. Reseigh, the first owners and occupants of the store were Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Brand. The Brands started a dry goods business in Park City in a store on the south side of Main Street. They moved to their new location about 1915. The. store was then called the Golden Rule. Mrs. Reseigh tells how her sister worked for the Brands before balking at one of the chores. "Mrs. Brand fired her because she wouldn't take the dog for a walk," When Samuel Brand died, Mrs. Brand moved to Denver and rented the store to Safeway' s. Mrs. Reseigh says that the store was Safeway' s for several years, until the company decided to close some of its less profitable outposts. "Then the store was vacant until we bought it in 1947." At the time, the Reseigh's were also operating another store on the west side of town. "My husband Earl went up there, and for six months we kept the west side store going too." The new location came to be known as Earl's. The store was run by the Reseighs, and by Thelma after the death of her husband, until 1973. "I operated it until six years ago this coming January... then sold the business and the inventory invent-ory and all the equipment to Gerald Day." But the building itself she did not sell. Recently, as Mrs. Reseigh tells it, she was presented with a proposal drawn up by Utah Historical Hist-orical Society architect Alan Roberts Rob-erts for the restoration of the facade. "I've gone along with them, hoping that it will be an improvement," improve-ment," she said. She indicated that, because the building waS of historic value, there was a possibility of receiving receiv-ing some funds from a Historic Preservation grant, and a tax rebate over five years. "Whatever I put into the building, build-ing, I can use that as a depreciation deprecia-tion on my income tax." |