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What Salt Lake lost: a thread
This dope Walgreens on 2nd and Main
A vibrant Main Street with a whole lot of people at all times of day
For reals tho. A 24-hour pharmacy. Zoom in on that last photo and see all the people on the street on a summer night in 1942. Salt Lake was a more urban city back in the day than it is today.
Wandamere amusement park at 27th South and 7th East.
140 miles of streetcars all over the city.
Trains up the canyons too (Emigration and Ogden canyons in these photos).
Anderson Tower at 6th Avenue and A Street (zoom in on the second photo to see its position overlooking the city).
Lots of old buildings in Sugar House.
The Beason Building, which got torn down for a parking garage in 1959.
Saltair.
A few more photos I didn't share that I still find really, really something:
More Main Street (peep the headlines on those newspapers)
More Main Street (peep the headlines on those newspapers)
Regent Street, between 1st and 2nd South. Most of these buildings got demolished for parking garages in the '50s and '60s.
Small grocery stores, which all died when supermarkets became a thing after the 1950s. Most Salt Lakers had a grocery store so close they could walk to it. (Photos taken at 15th and 15th, 6th Avenue and E Street, 7th East and 7th South, and North Temple and Main Street.)
This entire block (bounded by 4th and 5th South, Main Street and West Temple) was razed for a 10-acre parking lot. The Hotel Newhouse at the right was demolished in 1983. Here you're looking at the intersection of 5th and Main.
Here's the Dooley Building on West Temple and 2nd South. They demolished it in 1973 to build the Shilo Inn.
Think I'll finish it off with this old corner store on the northeast corner of 9th East and 13th South. Got replaced with parking. Parking is what got most of our lost buildings demolished. When you go downtown and see a parking lot, odds are a dope building once stood there.
