Classic Salt Lake City.

[jedikermit]

Originally Posted by SLC Projects

Yes WEST side of Main right across the street from where the broadway theater will one day get built.

I remember these guys gave tours a few years back. Have there been any changes since then? Kind of looks the same to me.

Last time they had tours was 2010; I went then too, no changes since then. As I was eavesdropping on important-looking people (wearing ties), they said there were three different investors seriously considering it, but waiting to see what happened with the UPAC before jumping in.

[ajiuO]

If been trying to figure something out for years.. Maybe someone on here knows.

There use to be a building on the north east corner of 1300 south and state street (it's now a small strip mall). I remember driving by the building all the time when I was young. The building looked all gutted out and seemed like it had been abandoned for a long time. I'm not sure if someone told me it use to be a school or if I just thought it looked like a school.... Does anyone know what this building was? I would like to find photos.

Also there use to be another older brick building on the north/east corner of 2100 south and state street. I remember I use to like the building and collected a brick when they tore it down... Does anyone know what that building was called?

Thank you

[Stenar]

The building on 1300 S State St. was Lincoln Junior High School.

Before Triad Center, KSL had originally planned to move their TV stations to Lincoln, but then Triad came along and offered them a better deal. That pretty much sealed the deal in Lincoln Jr. being torn down.

I loved that building on 2100 S State St. That was an old hospital. Before it was demolished, it was being run by FHP, but was obviously built by some other entity before that. It was early 1900s architecture.

UPDATE:

I found an old map online which lists that as "County Hospital" and some Deseret News articles that corroborate that.

Originally Posted by ajiuO

If been trying to figure something out for years.. Maybe someone on here knows.

There use to be a building on the north east corner of 1300 south and state street (it's now a small strip mall). I remember driving by the building all the time when I was young. The building looked all gutted out and seemed like it had been abandoned for a long time. I'm not sure if someone told me it use to be a school or if I just thought it looked like a school.... Does anyone know what this building was? I would like to find photos.

Also there use to be another older brick building on the north/east corner of 2100 south and state street. I remember I use to like the building and collected a brick when they tore it down... Does anyone know what that building was called?

Thank you

[Comrade Reynolds]

My grandpa taught at Lincoln before moving over to South High. I hope he didn't read too much into both schools closing after he began teaching at 'em!

As for County Hospital ... that's something I wish we had mostly for his generic urban city-ish name. I'm weird like that.

[Future Mayor]

Originally Posted by Comrade Reynolds

As for County Hospital ... that's something I wish we had mostly for his generic urban city-ish name. I'm weird like that.

I guess the closest we get is Salt Lake Regional

[ajiuO]

Originally Posted by Stenar

The building on 1300 S State St. was Lincoln Junior High School.

Before Triad Center, KSL had originally planned to move their TV stations to Lincoln, but then Triad came along and offered them a better deal. That pretty much sealed the deal in Lincoln Jr. being torn down.

I loved that building on 2100 S State St. That was an old hospital. Before it was demolished, it was being run by FHP, but was obviously built by some other entity before that. It was early 1900s architecture.

UPDATE:

I found an old map online which lists that as "County Hospital" and some Deseret News articles that corroborate that.

Thank You!! I have wanted to know the story with this building since I was little. I have always had a curiosity with abandoned buildings... And I think that was the building that started it... I usually don't have a problem finding info on them... But that one has always stumped me and I was beginning to think it never existed.

I found an article on the Deserate news. I love the way it describes it as an abandond shel.. Becaus that is how I remember it... No windows, I don't even think it had a roof.

I'm not able to find any photos yet.. I'll keep looking. Does anyone one know how the building got like that? Was there a fire? How long was it abandond for?

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1...UP.html?pg=all

[jedikermit]

Is this the County Hospital?

[ajiuO]

Originally Posted by jedikermit

Is this the County Hospital?

Looks like it.. There are a bunch of photos of it on the utah historic society. Search for Salt Lake County Infirmary.

That looks like a newr photo.. The addon to the top looks hidous.. Ill post an older photo

Nothing on Lincoln junior high on that site though

[Comrade Reynolds]

Originally Posted by ajiuO

Thank You!! I have wanted to know the story with this building since I was little. I have always had a curiosity with abandoned buildings... And I think that was the building that started it... I usually don't have a problem finding info on them... But that one has always stumped me and I was beginning to think it never existed.

I found an article on the Deserate news. I love the way it describes it as an abandond shel.. Becaus that is how I remember it... No windows, I don't even think it had a roof.

I'm not able to find any photos yet.. I'll keep looking. Does anyone one know how the building got like that? Was there a fire? How long was it abandond for?

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1...UP.html?pg=all

A long time ... my grandpa left there when it closed in the 1960s or 70s, I believe. So, at least twenty years?

The one I remember the most was Irving Schoolhouse in SugarHouse. When I was a kid, back in the mid-90s, SugarHouse was a dump. A lot of the retail was abandoned and the Commons area was a large and ugly parking lot (mostly). The schoolhouse had been a burned out shell for years and years and we used to go ride our bikes in the back of it, where past kids had set up a pretty awesome bike course.

Hidden Hollow was also a transient camp, and you'd have to watch out for the homeless while walking around the area (though, I don't ever remember having any issues with 'em ... they'd just be sleeping or eating or relaxing and wouldn't say or do much of anything).

I remember an abandoned building on the corner of 2100 S and Highland (now where Barnes and Noble is located). At one point, a paintball place opened up there before it was gutted.

Ah, memories!

[Merewether]

For the 100th anniversary of the UU Med School , the Eccles Health Science Library put up an online collection of historic photographs. The link below should take you to the Buildings and Grounds portion which shows old County Hospital, which had early med school classes, and subsequent sites on upper and lower campus.
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/sear...nd/order/title

[Future Mayor]

The SE corner of 21st and Highland was a Keith O'briens for years, sort of a sporting good if I remember correctly, that spot then was the original home of the Bay, followed by a H.S age dance club (Club Emporium) where I spent many a weekend evening, when the bay moved to downtown. Spoons and spice was alos in that same commercial development, then the area was redeveloped into the Commons.

Oh the good times I had at Club Emporium. Thus started my love of dance clubs that continues to this day. Ahhh memories!

[ajiuO]

I posted this on the wrong forum yesterday.. So I'm moving it here.. Plus I walked up and got a current shot for comparison.

I found this photo on the Utah state historical society and found it absolutely fascinating.

This is the Intersection of what is now 400 W North Temple taken in 1909. The thing that I find so interesting about this photo is that it looks like the ordinal overpass started at 400 west and had trains running over it. At some point in time it must have been replaced with the overpass that went to almost 300 west and had no trains.... Well now it starts at 400 west and has trains again... It's like the 2end overpass never happened

looking at this side by side.. I wonder if the old 400 west eastbound exit was a part of the original overpass that had the trains and then perhaps the part that extended past 400 west was added for cars.. I could never figure out why they built that overpass with a 400 west exit only going one way.. but thinking back I remember there use to be tracks in the middle of 400 west before gateway was built... I bet trains used the south side of the the overpass for a while.. Then it was probably eliminated and paved over for cars... I need to find more info on this.

On a similar topic.. I remember the original overpass on 400 South and something about that overpass always stuck me as weird... I always though it looked as if the overpass use to be wider and then was cut in half or something... is anyone on here old enough to remember if that was the case?


1909


2005ish


2012

[stevena07]

Originally Posted by ajiuO

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2012

Not sure how that bike lane makes any sense.

[Old&New]

I think the bike lane crosses the tracks at an angle which is perpendicular to the tracks.

[ajiuO]

Originally Posted by Old&New

I think the bike lane crosses the tracks at an angle which is perpendicular to the tracks.

It leads right in to the train track, naturally. That's what we think of bikers over here on North Temple!

[Comrade Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Future Mayor

The SE corner of 21st and Highland was a Keith O'briens for years, sort of a sporting good if I remember correctly, that spot then was the original home of the Bay, followed by a H.S age dance club (Club Emporium) where I spent many a weekend evening, when the bay moved to downtown. Spoons and spice was alos in that same commercial development, then the area was redeveloped into the Commons.

Oh the good times I had at Club Emporium. Thus started my love of dance clubs that continues to this day. Ahhh memories!

Wow. You're old.

The only club I remember was the goth club by McDonald's ... in the area where Walgreens is now located. There was also a Godfather's Pizza there for years during my childhood.

[Stenar]

Originally Posted by Comrade Reynolds

Wow. You're old.

The only club I remember was the goth club by McDonald's ... in the area where Walgreens is now located. There was also a Godfather's Pizza there for years during my childhood.

The all-ages club behind the Bay was only a couple of years before the goth club by McDonald's.

[Comrade Reynolds]

I only remember the goth club because my mom would take me to the McDonald's after school sometimes when I was a kid. I had a cousin who would go dancing there, so, that's how I knew it. I was far too young to even remember any of these places. I really don't remember there being a club on the corner of 2100 S and certainly not Keith O'Briens.

The first memory I have of that place was a paintball place that was only open for maybe a year and I only remember that because the outer walls were painted black.

You gotta remember, that whole redevelopment happened toward the end of my time in elementary ... around 1998 or whenever it opened, so, much of what I remember was from a small window between the mid-90s to the late-90s. Basically, this all came when SugarHouse was on the cusp of its revitalization.

But my biggest memories was riding my bike with my brother and his friends down to Hidden Hollow and behind the old Irving Schoolhouse before they gutted the remainder of the building and built those apartments. Then that goth club vanished, as did Godfather's Pizza and in came Walgreens ... while the old Smith's, which fronted 9th East (I do remember that because, earlier in my childhood we shopped there ... but then my parents switched to Albertson's over on 9th and 33rd South) was torn down and rebuilt into the current Smith's.

I also remember the old burned out Hygia ... but mostly from stories my mom relaid to me since she and all her sisters used to take ice skating lessons there from one of her neighbors growing up.

Other than that, I don't remember when the SugarHouse Shopping Center opened, but I do remember spending summers at the Movies 10 there ... so, I'm guessing that shopping center probably was built before I really understood my surroundings (as it was the first real new develop I remember in SugarHouse), which means it would've been before my time. So, the late 80s, maybe?

Either way, I have a lot of good memories of the old SugarHouse. But then, I spent my whole life there. I went to Nibley, which, sadly, was torn down and updated with an entirely new building not long after I left, Clayton (though, that wasn't really SugarHouse ... I think Hillside was the designated school for my area, but I went to Clayton) and then Highland ... which, of course, is the major high school in the area.

We'd cut through SugarHouse Park to skip class, go down into downtown SugarHouse & was always hit up to buy acid from guys walking out in front of the stores on Highland across from the library.

Good times. Good times!

[Future Mayor]

Yes Sugarhouse was the home of two 18+ non alcoholic dance clubs for many years.

The Bay, in the former Kieth O'Brien building, which had multiple levels, and was a really cool set up, and Xenon on the Walgreens site. The Bay at one point opened up an all ages (H.S.) club upstairs, before the move to 4th S. (I am not old enough to have gone to The Bay in the sugarhouse location. ) But as mentioned I did go to the all ages club that took its spot, and I even made it to Xenon once before it changed it's name and genre to a Goth Club.

[mattreedah]

Accidently posted here. Sorry.