Comments on: Build Your Very Own Salt Lake City, ca. 1941

By: J. Stapley

J. Stapley — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:18:30 +0000

They used to sell oil that was consecrated in the temple (in both small and large bottles) at the gatehouse.

It was also my understanding that the greenhouse was also used to provide living decor for the garden room.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:15:49 +0000

Gosh, Justin, I completely missed that connection! I don’t know anything about *this* Ramona, but 1941 would have been the right age for a sister of Pres. Hinckley to be starting to take an active role.

Another entry on my to-do list …

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:01:04 +0000

Ardis, do you know if Ramona Sullivan (name on the bottom of several pages) is the same person as President Hinckley’s younger sister?

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:45:42 +0000

I love this project. That’s a wild-looking roller coaster.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:32:50 +0000

Reed, I’ve long heard that, too, and accepted it, but I don’t know that I’ve seen any photographic or documentary evidence. I’ll poke around on that one, too.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:32:13 +0000

I checked with Randy Dixon, who knows more about old-time downtown Salt Lake than even the people who BUILT old-time downtown Salt Lake, about the gatehouse. He says it was a small adobe building just inside the east gate. It was built in the 1880s, possibly as a construction office for the Temple architect, but in the 20th century was used as I speculated, by the groundskeeper/caretaker/pre-Information Bureau guide.

By: Reed Russell

Reed Russell — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:17:13 +0000

This is just tangentially related, but those statues of Hyrum and Joseph that are in the first picture – I’ve heard that many years ago they stood in the recessed alcoves of the temple (the spots where so many newlyweds like to pose.)
Do we have any written or visual verification for that?

By: Eric Boysen

Eric Boysen — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:16:41 +0000

I think the “boards” are some type of ramped structure. It looks like a shallow ramp up and a steeper ramp down. What purpose it served I have no idea.

By: blueagleranch

blueagleranch — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:16:37 +0000

I love these images! As for the seemingly boarded up section of the Primary Children’s Hospital, don’t you suppose that is a wheelchair ramp on the back of the building?

By: Moniker Challenged

Moniker Challenged — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:46:13 +0000

Wow. These could conceal/display waaaaaay more Easter eggs than the scarce cardboard scenery that came with my nephew’s egg coloring kit last Easter.