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Old Posted Jun 13, 2014, 1:20 AM
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The building on the corner of 100 S and State was demolished in the early 00s for the Zion Hall Social Center tower that was going to be built on that site. I remember when it was demolished for site prep since it felt like the project was about to move forward. Nope.
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State Capitol Building 1936

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I wasn't aware that so much land was still so empty around the Capitol in the 30's. Even State seems pretty much undeveloped.
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And the refineries have been there a LOOONG time.
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Great image -- and yeah, the refineries being there already is the biggest surprise. Wow.
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I would love to see a shot that covered that area from today to see the changes to capitol hill, I-15 and to see the changes to the mountain that the quarry has made. I found one in a google search that was a tighter shot that only covered maybe 50% of that image and didn't really capture the quarry.
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We lost many big trees in that area in the 1999 tornado but I am surprised that most of them were obviously less than 60 years old.
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If you haven't seen these, the Salt Lake City Mayor's Office produces a YouTube series called the Salt Lake City History Minute. There are 26 of them so far, each less than two minutes long. A lot of them get into historic buildings and streets, along with stories about historic people and events that shaped the history. If you dig this thread, you'd probably like these videos.

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...Us3bDoq_YCmMtd
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Old Posted Jan 28, 2015, 7:48 AM
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Found this cool photo of Main from the 1971:


http://www.theoriginalglenbuxton.com/timelines/1970-detroitmidwest/
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ahh the Newhouse! I haven't seen many color photos of it. Great find.
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And yet all of these years later, it remains a parking lot.
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I had no idea the little america was there back then, in what I assume is a different building than the current 850 room building...

Is the smaller motel-style section of the current hotel original?
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I had no idea the little america was there back then, in what I assume is a different building than the current 850 room building...

Is the smaller motel-style section of the current hotel original?
Yes the buildings that are part of Little America that look more like a motel, is what Little America Originally was, very similar I assume to Little America WY. I believe is what was probably around at the time of the above image.
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I believe this is what it looked like (as a motel, changed to hotel but kept the same 330 rooms it seems):



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Incredibly nerdy, but to me also incredibly cool. Because I am a huge nerd.

The Utah Geological Survey has published a walking tour, "Building Stones of Downtown Salt Lake City." It looks at 19 (mostly historic) buildings downtown, and gives you information about where the stone was quarried for each of the buildings. Many of them used local stone, and most of them multiple kinds of stone. Starts with the Capitol, ends with the City/County Building. It's pretty great. If you're into that kind of thing.

http://geology.utah.gov/apps/slc_bld...our/index.html
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Thanks for the link. I share in the nerdiness!
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Found this cool photo of Main from the 1971:


http://www.theoriginalglenbuxton.com/timelines/1970-detroitmidwest/
I had totally forgotten about the Little America being there. many stories about the New house and Terrace, one being 5$ for B.B.King.
Nice find.
I also remember much of the east half of that block being a gravel parking lot for the new Little America for a long time.
On the S.W. corner of the block was a Deseret motel.
I'm wondering what was on the N.W. corner of the block.
Would be cool to see an aerial shot of the whole block around that time.
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Someone may have already posted this one: Salt Lake City in 1960 (walking along Main Street, looks like it's mostly between South Temple and 100 South)

https://youtu.be/eKC03VHl29c

...I'm wondering if they're shopping for shirts for those kids.

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I'm sure these are all on here but it is always fun to see how far Salt Lake has come to get where we are now. KSL had a throwback article on the skylines changes that was fun to look at

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=39827737&nid...over-the-years
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That's a cool article. Not sure I had seen it yet.



Can you imagine if all of this had been preserved? Salt Lake looks amazing in this pic. In a way it looked bigger than it does now.
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