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The old Hotel Utah has long, storied history in Salt Lake
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WAS THE HOTEL NEWHOUSE,WHICH WAS IMPLODED AS A
RADIO STATION STUNT.I ATE SEVERAL MEALS AT THE
HOTEL UTAH.THE FOOD WAS GREAT AND NOT THAT EXPENSIVE.
The Newhouse wasn't imploded as a radio station stunt.
The history of the Hotel Utah is gone; I believe the LDS Church could have built office space somewhere else. It's too bad that a place for ALL of the people, was turned into yet-another proselytizing center.
I miss the days of meeting my mother there for lunch in the basement with those great soups and wonderful hard rolls.
The Grand America is a lovely hotel with great rooms and good not great food but it isn't part of the downtown. I saw some great jazz concerts at the Hotel Utah.
If it was going to be demolished, it was at their own choice.
Remember, the best way to turn public sympathy towards a building, is to threaten to tear it down. That way, you get to do what you want to do.
Perhaps the reason that only the church wants to invest in downtown SLC, is because they make it difficult for anyone else. The downtown malls failed because almost everything was closed on Sunday. That takes away 14% of the business.
You also probably believe in global warming.
You find that great and spacious building (the conference center) has "class?" Do you also find the monster Church Office Building also has "class?"
Yes, the temple, Relief Society Building, and Church Administration Building have class. However, sadly, nothing the church has built downtown in the past 40 years has any class at all.
But who let the hotel "go shabby" so that "no one was staying there"? Certainly not the proud employees, who obviously took personal care in their jobs.
How nice it would have been, to have such an elegant hotel downtown. What is there, now? A HoJo and a couple of dumps?
Why can't Utahns express pride in their historical buildings?
I have some chairs, they are wood folding chairs, nice solid chairs. I think that they came out of the Hotel Newhouse, as much as I like them, I am going to donate them to our YW for a yard sale. I hate to depart with them, but they are stashed away in my basement, sometimes we just have to let go.
An aquarium large enough to merely contain a single orca would be huge. One large enough for a killer whale to swim around in would be much, much bigger. One large enough to house not one, but an entire pod, would be as big as the largest tanks at the nation's largest aquariums.
Yah, the writer definitely exaggerated, but it WAS a really cool tank. When I was a kid I used to throw pennies in it, and it had some really cool (and big) Koy Carp in it. I was in SLC last year, and I noticed in the Sky Room (or whatever they call it now) that they had retained some of the old, brass decor from around the tank. I recognized it in an instant. Hey Sad Days, I have to agree with you, the buffet was terrible, a step below Chuck-A-Rama, but the view was terrific. Hey DC, you are right, Westin DID run it for a while at the end, but I'm not sure it was ever profitable for them. It was pretty shabby in those days.
has his office. It was a very nice affair.
Birthhome was 10th east and 1st so.
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