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Show i ''. 'TY-' ';7 ,,,, Vn'Jt; f, rWJ . rid It l v i ' tx'u.i Hi? ,lVj?r$ i LX vr-V'. Yi'' -v"x;L mmmmatmmmmmmmi nmlmmmt, , g map i, ihii- - 1 1 if - r,...r.-rr .f.r1a .. -p.- .rttTn lirflll 1l)r , ., r'( """"T""",r' k"fflllilfluvff"iliHiiiiiiiiiilinlwilll'Hninlilii ijiimiliiiliwiUMiiiTifflii iimiiin t MWiilflrfMMi n The good old days? The Park Record offices as they looked in the 1920s. ' Recoitiroffices are on the move The Record continued to operate out of the same location until the business was sold by the Raddon family to Morgan publisher pub-lisher H.C. McConaughy in 1956. Record historian Bea Kummer was one of those familiar with the old offices, where the paper was both produced and printed. "Up until the times I was 14 I delivered papers. We'd buy them two for a nickel and sell them for a nickel apiece. That was the way we made what little money we had to spend." She said the neighborhood kids used to watch the paper being printed in the basement. After McConaughy bought the business the old building was demolished. The Record offices moved at least three times in the next 15 years before settling into the red frame building at 357 Main St., adjacent to what is now the Main Street Marketplace mall, about 1970. About five years later, in September of 1975, a competing paper The Park City Newspaper News-paper sprang to life. After September of 1976 it operated out of a reconditioned brick building at 419 Main St. When the Record and the Newspaper merged in 1983, the staffs were consolidated in that building. Wilking said he is very confident the move will not affect the record's ability to cover issues and events in the Old Town area. The Park Record is Utah's oldest weekly newspaper in continuous publication. by David Hampshire This is the last issue of the Park Record to be produced in the old offices at 419 Main St. The Record is moving to Prospector Square. Record publisher Jan Wilking said the move to larger quarters has been in the works since the merger between the Record and Park City Newspaper in June, 1983. The expansion in personnel following the merger forced the Record to rent additional space in an adjacent building to house the editorial staff, Wilking noted. "We just needed facilities where all of us could be together," he said. The paper's new offices, at 1670 Bonanza Dr. next to the Park City Emergency Center, will have space for all the Record staff on one floor. Wilking said the offices will include a larger darkroom, a bigger area for the graphics layout department, a separate reception area, and a parking lot on the west side of the building. "I think we'll have much better facilities for producing the paper," he said. The move marks the first time in the paper's 105-year history that the Record offices have not been on Main Street. The original building occupied what is now a vacant lot between Mileti's and the Park City Pizza Company (formerly El Papagayo's). That building went up in smoke during the fire of 1898, but the staff operated out of a tent on the same location until a new structure could be erected. 4viut 11 F a i LlL:. 1 -,; , , , i ' " ' I . , , , Jrr -".!Z1 . .. "".':. ' ..." - - -J'J' T" .. The Park Record will occupy half of the top floor of this building in Prospector Square. |