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Show saving "old" Park Citv Dear Editor: Let me explain how we're going to save the 'old section' of Park City. First by revamping the Coalition Building. Actually it's the last thing we will touch, you know it would cost a fortune. But by using it as a carrot at the end of a stick, we plan on gaining great popular support. We wouldn't dream of using the Coalition Building to house the base of the ski-lift, even tho the building was originally designed de-signed as a tramway terminal. No we plan to complement the old structure by building a Japanese ski-lift base along side of it. Can't you picture the beauty of it, rustic Park City ala modern Nippon, Fantastic! Then we will replace the stately Carnegie Steel tram towers with Nippon's finest. That's almost a shame for those towers are the only known Carnegie Steel in the state, but the town will still have its Carnegie library and no one has messed with it since the original grant in 1919, and I'll do my damnedest to see that no one louses it up with modernization. After all that would cost us taxpayers money. Of course after our ski-lift is in we'll have to drape about six city blocks with safety netting to conform with the Utah State tramway laws. It's supposed to catch the garbage that riders like to throw at the people below. It does stop some of it, this will give an interesting aroma come summer. The lift riders will have to get their kicks with spitting and throwing cigarette butts. You know some people might have the gall to say this net is unsightly. But most people are so gullible that we're going to pass the net off as a work of art, like that guy in California who built the crazy long fence that went nowhere. What was his name? No matter we'll find out before the next art festival. We're going to run a railroad ... track to the top of Main Street the cost will be picked up by the city. They think it's only going to cost them $20,000, this is a gimmick we picked up from the defense industries. It's called cost over runs. Well, I'm afraid to tell you the true cost. Once the track is in we're going to sell the city some genuine Portuguese trolley cars. This will be all in keeping with the decor of an old mining camp setting. All famous old mining camps had Portuguese trolley cars, well one did somewhere down in Brazil. What's this town's name? Oh it doesn't matter as long as Park City has one. Actually what happened is Wally got stuck with a whole bunch of these Portuguese trolleys from his St. Louis deal and he will let Park City buy them for $25,000 each. We wouldn't want Wally stuck with them would we? Did you hear how we're going to extend Norfolk Avenue North and join it to Lowell Avenue. Most of the street to be built is actually Lowell Avenue but we don't want to use that name. Some citizens still remember how we pulled off the Lowell Avenue development, so we will call this one the Norfolk Avenue development. Oh, another thing we're going to give to the 'old section' of town, its something that Thaynes Canyon and all the better sections of town have already got. Ski runs! We'll really break up the monotony of looking at all those old trees. Oh, yes, and we'll have an 'on loading station' on the ski-lift between Norfolk and Lowell Avenue. Some of the natives think that their neighborhood will become congested with cars parked all over the place, lawns, drive-ways, etc. and the area crawling with people. Can you imagine that, natives actually thinking! Gary A. Kimball |