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The Marriott-Slaterville City History Collection was created by the residents of the town to document their history. The collection includes Autobiographies, Oral Histories, History of Marriott, History of Slaterville, and the History of the Merging Townships to create Marriott-Slaterville City. This information has left behind rich histories, stories and important information regarding the history of the Marriott-Slaterville area. |
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Show the movie. This theater was located on the north side of the street just up a ways from Washington Boulevard on 25th Street. There was a theater located west on the street on the south side about where Hudson Avenue was located. The Orpheum Theater was the most beautiful and was located south of the Ben Lomond Hotel on Washington Blvd. Current news was shown followed by a comedy. Then the main event was a popular movie of the day. Most theaters went out of business over time likely because the Orpheum offered so much more to moviegoers. I remember my father telling the family members that he had worked at the Orpheum Theater as a stagehand operating the curtains and other duties. He had a brother, Brigham Marriott, who also was interested in the theater and occasionally took parts in plays presented there. When Mother and Dad where dating, he would take her to the Grand Opera House, later called the Orpheum Theater, to enjoy an evening. When my sister and I were in our teens, we would go with Mother and Dad to the Orpheum. Dad would take us to the Dokos Candy Company next door, and we would pick up some treats to enjoy during the show. OHS CLASS OF 1928 About six weeks before I was to graduate from Ogden High School, I had Scarlet Fever. With the doctor's permission, I returned for the last days of school and graduated in 1928. Some of the others in my 1928 graduation class were Louise Arbon Maxfield, Florence Badger Beith, Mildred Boman Moore, Winna Bruerton Grano, William Burdett, Lee R. Cain, Fay Jones Jolley, and Fern Parry Taylor. OLDEST BROTHER As I recall the latter part of 1928, my brother Horace had gone to California to start a car upholstery business in Huntington Park. He lived for a while with our June, her husband Perry, and Aunt Jennie while Perry helped him get established in the business. Dad had sent some money to Horace to help him begin his new auto-top business. Aunt Julia lived in Hunting Park and Horace decided to open his business there. Aunt Jennie took a special interest in Horace, and she would get up early to prepare a delicious breakfast for him. MY ONLY SISTER My sister, Ida, had a talent for sewing. When she was in her teens, she would see beautiful dresses in the window of L. R. Samuels. She would study the dress in the display window and then select the material she wanted. At home she cut out the pattern and made the dress. It would look exactly like the dress in the display window. She sewed several articles |