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Show 'Pioneer Village' Opens '56 Season To Capacity Tourist, Adult, Student Groups .find the best is right in our own buck yard." The Vtircoes were showing some ' (Continued on Page 11) Pioneer Village, fie Sons of Utah Tioneers museum at 3000 Connor St., lias opened to a booming boom-ing season. Horace Sorenseil, SUP president, says every clay and many evenings have found crowds of interested people visiting visit-ing the pioneer display. Since April 8, classes of school children have visited the museum dally and the schedule is full through the end of tho month. Groups of adults, college, high school and younger students have kept guides fully occupied. Following is a special article written for the News Bulletin by Virginia Baker, SUP secretary. "Why, I had no idea we had such an interesting and authentic historical town display here in Utah," said Ellis Varcoe, 889 Zenith Avenue. "Pioneer Village beats anything I've seen." he went on. "My wife and I have driven as far as a thousand miles out of our way to see some of the old frontier diisplays in the Dakotas Montana Mon-tana and other places." Attractive vivacious Fern Var-coe Var-coe added, "Yes, and now we .- - . j '" 'W ;. 4, n .. "":' va - j. - . t ' " 'i E-'.'i1. ! , L 8 " ' & w' , ,- j I v v . , i f ' y. , t ; 1 j .H(j;' . . "" f - ----- ; ' SUP Museum, 3000 Connor St., is fast becoming a popidar tourist attraction of the city. SUP Museum Schedule Full Throughout Month of Anril (Continued from Page 1) of the sights of Salt Lake to relatives from Iowa and included Pioneer Village, 2998 Connor Street (2150 East). The National Society of the Sons of Utah Pioneers is deep in blueprints and dreams for expansion ex-pansion on the five acre plot in East Mill Creek. Fern and Ellis will bring their friends to have their pictures taken in the Pioneer Photo Shop, which houses a number of price- less collections of old glass negatives. nega-tives. They will come in so the old time barber can give them a shave and a haircut for . . . well, a mite more than the traditional six-bits, what with inflation. Sitting in the old drugstore, they wil lwatch as the mustachioed mustach-ioed soda clerk draws two sars-parrillas sars-parrillas from the old ffountajn which came from the first drugstore drug-store in Salt Lake the old Godbe-Pitts Godbe-Pitts place on the southeast corner cor-ner of First South and Main Street. They will peek through the windows to watch classes in the pioneer crafts. They will browse through the old country store, perhaps buying an asafaetida bag to wear which wards off germs, when worn around the neck. If there is time, the Varcoes will walk through the narrow-gauge narrow-gauge train; they will relax in the old meeting house; they will marvel at the fabulous gun room; they will compare pioneer tools with modern equipment; they will stop at the printshop . to get a copy of the weekly Village paper. Pioneer Village Museum is open each Sunday arternoon from 2 to 5 p. m. Guides are on duty, made for groups of 25 or more persons. , |
