Comments on: The Bones in the Pit http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/06/16/the-bones-in-the-pit/ Where our past is never very long ago Wed, 22 May 2013 15:57:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/06/16/the-bones-in-the-pit/comment-page-1/#comment-72519 Ardis E. Parshall Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:05:40 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=12685#comment-72519 Ha!

When I walk around downtown I can’t help but see the ghosts of what and who used to be there. If I weren’t already crazy, I’d get there fast by daydreaming about all the things that must have happened on any given spot throughout the history of creation. (Hmm. Come to think of it, that’s what Michener did — and he made a fortune doing it. Gonna rethink this …)

]]> By: Grant http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/06/16/the-bones-in-the-pit/comment-page-1/#comment-72518 Grant Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:54:34 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=12685#comment-72518 Hey! I remember this article from before I knew you, Ardis! (I mean, as well as you can know someone sharing thoughts and mutual friends without ever having met). Anyway, my office in the federal building looks out over the new Harmon’s under construction to Social Hall Avenue so I thought about that grave.

We actually had a historical shock a couple of years ago when they first took down the “Hupmobile” building for City Creek construcion. A friend at work had some photos her father took as a WPA worker during the Depression. One showed women at work in a government sewing factory at an odd-numbered two digit address just south of South Temple on State Street. (We’re at 125 S. State.) We looked out the window at the recently exposed basement foundation just south of the Social Hall and recognized the place in the photo! Sorry we didn’t get any modern pics. Harmon’s big cement block is there now.

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/06/16/the-bones-in-the-pit/comment-page-1/#comment-72506 Ardis E. Parshall Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:01:12 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=12685#comment-72506 Yeah — in addition to closing the Tomb of the Unknowns to soldiers of future wars (because they don’t expect any remains to go unidentified in future), I read that they’ve even destroyed all the paperwork on the remains from the last soldiers buried there, for fear that future technology would be able to identify the Unknowns just from the records of tests run to try to identify them before calling them Unknowns.

]]> By: Steve C. http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/06/16/the-bones-in-the-pit/comment-page-1/#comment-72496 Steve C. Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:04:06 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=12685#comment-72496 Mystery solved. Imagine what modern forensic science could have done.

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