TR eee Te rs were en N ITS HEYDAY, this was no unusual s cene at Saltair, a Utah pleasure resort built in the Gay Nineties. In the background is the huge and color- ful Moorish dance Hippodrome, which now lies in es so ruins. Photo, made in 1914 or 1915, courtesy of Willard E. Cragun. The Lady’ Lived Amidst Glamor in the world,” Saltair coaster, the Moorish dance hip- & Western Railroad, various at-|' pod rome, the main entrance, tempts have been made to re-|’ maintenance buildings, amusements, rides, until today the re- store the resort to its former glory. sort is only charred rubble. All failed. By 1960, the lake had receded Once in July, 1967, Saltair until the shoreline was a half mile away, even though five was declared “off limits” by years before a valiant effort to save the resort was made. The company that operated it spruced up the buildings and | A loose board creaks as a Angeles Railroad Co. | diked off a five-acre area next) ‘lonely wind searches restlessly The line, never built beyond) to the main pavilion, making among the charred skeletons of Saltair except for tracks to Gar-| a 7-million-gallon bathing pond. its name in 1916 The tourists came back, New. location, above, of Coalville stone Meeting House Is compared with the original site in the two pictures. I-50 toilet facilities, lack of drinkin ‘to the Salt Lake, Garfield and not Utahns. The combination of; water and other health hazards,g receding water and pollution of| spell including the lack of fire protection. Further efforts to resurrect Instead of being called the _ Early in 1917 it was electrified ‘and, even after the resort lost “Lady of the Lake” the resort the crumbling old relic of more much of its popularity, contin- was overshadowed by descrip-| grandiose times failed and toued to operate by carload freight tions which termed the lake! day Saltair is little more than ‘Switching in the western part of “the cesspool of Northern Utah’! a memory. ‘Salt Lake City and to salt plants —a dump for waste and sew-|j~ age. | ‘on the lake’s shores. SALT the lake combined | doom for the resort. FLATS to a _ Plagued which by in 1925, fires and 1931, 1957, wind Turned over to the Utah Parks | 1967 and ‘and_1970 destroyed’ the roller Recreation Commission in’) 1959 by the Salt Lake, Garfield | Summit Landma Special to The Tribune Dedication program is sched- | EAST MILL CREEK — One} of Summit County’s most uled for Sunday at 4:30 p.m.| his-/| with residents and former resi- | toric buildings will be rededi-| cated » Sunday ~ afternoon — Western. dents in| of the Summit community WITH Ss EVERY | carefullyf UJ ol marked stone back in the cor: rect place, a restored roof and cupola, the old Coalville Meeting Housé will serve as the | } center of Pioneer Village as it did for Coalville and Summit County for many years. County | participating. Rob- ; ceremonies at Pioneer Museum | ert Calderwand. Village, 2998 Connor St. (2150 fh—— a East). y field, changed refused to permit a public dance to be held there, Plans had been to use the proceeds from the event to improve the resort. _ But the. state said “‘no,” basbut ing its action on inadequate o~— pleasure palaces. Saltair is dead—a victim of fire and 20th Century progress. OWN RAILROAD Opened on June 1, 1893, three years before Utah became a state, Saltair was served by its own railroad which in the first 30 years of its existence unloaded” tens~of—thousands of sightSeers on the boardwalks annually. Characterized by writers as “the greatest watering resort Salt Lake County officials who ? Leer when was a miniature Coney Island| the wind is just right, you can (built over the waters of Great hear the ghostly echoes of mil- Salt Lake on pilings a half mile lions of footsteps, the huffing from shore. of a passenger train and the Visitors from all over the faint cries of children leaping world flocked to the resort, along the massive timbers of many of them transcontinental the rubble that was once a travelers who wanted to float boardwalk, in its buoyant waters. Wheeling seagulls overhead In the early years they rode mourn raucously the departure ‘to the site in the passenger of the seashore. ‘coaches of the Salt Lake and Los & By ROBIN TIBBETS SALTAIR — Sometimes, 1