“In April 1906, Mayor Ezra Thompson and the improvement league jointly announced plans to convert a number of Salt Lake’s streets into beautifully landscaped boulevards by paving them with macadam, planting parks in the median strips and abutting the streets with curbing. This was the first citywide cleanup campaign and the beginning of a citywide beautification movement.”

“In early 1914, the city undertook an unprecedented campaign of paving and improvement. Virtually every week during 1914, one of the local civic improvement leagues, groups of neighbors or individuals appeared before the City Commission to lobby for new street paving, curbs, gutters, sewer and water hook-ups. Few went home empty-handed.”

I’m not sure, but I think the street is unpaved in this picture because I *think* I see wagon tracks (not just the streetcar tracks in the middle, but fainter ones nearer the edges), and even some potholing that shouldn’t have been there had the picture been taken late in the summer. I’ll email you the scan so you can enlarge it to see if you’re seeing the same things.