Comments about ‘Provo's progressed over its 160 years’

I think the editor got it wrong. It shoudl be stayed @ 1849.

Go GOP!

Very cool pictures!

I grew up in Provo. It is still a great place.

Too bad it has become a community in serious financial troubles and poor vision for the future due the actions of the current administration.

Provo is the most stable city economically of all. They are home to BYU which doesn't rely on the economy to provide jobs.

Provo has some of the top schools in the country let alone the state.

Great recreation. You can be water skiing in two minutes or snow skiing in 15.

Great place to raise a family.

Not to mention the COUGARS.

Long live Provo!

Mr. Robert Carter was my 7th grade Utah History teacher. He made it fun and interesting to learn about Utah. He was my favorite teacher!

I cheer for both BYU and Utah, but Provo has some tremendous weirdness about it.

I almost laughed when i saw the title "...Provo's progressed over 160 years" Really? Maybe that is part of its "charm" but when you walk throug it the middle of town it feels like the 1920s at the best. Can you even buy a Regular Coke in the town? Before I get the reaction from the dire hard wasn't not giving you a choice "satan's plan"
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I think BYU is a fantastic value and a fairly good school for learning the basics. But what it seriously lacks is any relative understanding of the world, which I would argue is equally as important.

Re: Too bad is pathetic. Top schools? Really? BYU is solid (yet unspectacular) but what else are you referring to? UVSU (aka BYU prime) or are you really referring to a high school?

Seeing it in my rearview mirror. I would rather continue to live with the 'heathens' up here in the Davis/Weber area any day than live in Provo.

Did you really quote "satan's plan" in your post? Are you sure YOU aren't weird, too?

Only in Utah.

To: To Bad is pathetic, you are one of those mind-numb robots following the current administration. "Provo is the most stable economically of all?" Where do you get your assertion since you provide no facts. Do you understand or realize how deeply in debt this community is because of the actions of the current mayor? Obviously you approve of the 60 million wasted on iProvo. You approve of the millions spent to move Action Target across town. You approve of the hundreds of thousands wasted on parking lots and hangars at the airport. You approve of the millions wasted on an Arts Center too small to not only meet community needs, but to even have an event break even. You obviously approve of a mayor who has wasted hundreds of thousands downtown and for what? More businesses leaving. Provo is in serious financial trouble. What if we had not wasted all those millions and more on frivolous projects? Then Provo would be economically stable. But, the facts are, it is in financial trouble. This is a vision that has almost destroye the City financially. Twelve years is enough. We can't afford four more! Change can be good!

I grew up in Provo. My third great grandfather founded the community so I have very deep roots there. No matter what anyone says, it is a wonderful place with wonderful people. Some people with bad attitudes have a hard time there. That says more about them than it does about Provo. I consider growing up in Provo to be one of the greatest blessings of my life. I have lived other places around the country, but I still love it with all my heart. It's the best.

What other school in the country besides BYU-Idaho and BYU-Hawaii can say that 70% of the men in the student body (I don't know the percentage of women) have lived for 2 years in an area of the world they didn't grow up in. Many of those spent those 2 years outside of the U.S. and many learned a language other than their native language during that time. You don't find that kind of world experience and understanding anywhere else.

RE: Best Part About Provo
I believe you took that quote from former Cougar great and Weber county native Jim McMahon. When asked what the best part of playing at BYU was he answered "Seeing it in my rearview mirror".

Seven years in Provo:
Lower property tax (1/2 of Draper)
Excellent, responsive City government
Honest, reliable service companies
Idyllic mountain setting
Easy access to recreation
Great young people at schools
Clean streets and neighborhoods
Less traffic

Yup, a bit of irony in that isn't there.

And yes, I am probably weird. But I am not in Utah. I live in CA.

Ironically I was just reading the Journal of Wilford Woodruff and found this entry under the date of July 15, 1855.

"There is a strange spirit about Provo... The people seemed cold and indifferent as though they expected the Presidency & 12 to bring Oil enough in their lamps to fill all the lamps of 3,000 people & have light enough for them all without their bringing any themselves."

I lived in Provo for 11 years. It's not a bad little city, it's got it quirks for sure. It's a little warmer in the winter than SLC north, but the same can be said for summertime too. Traveling in non-byu student circles is easy, and you can find anything you want there. YES real coke is avalialbe and abundant, all the convenience stores a block away from the byu campus sell mormon coffee (aka Mnt. Dew), which is usually distributed in 50+ oz containers, mostly to byu staff from what I can tell.

Provo has a charming little down town that is alive and vibrant during the day, but come weekends and evenings, is more like a ghost town. The place has potential, yes, and the city has been somewhat progresssive with some of their planning, I'm impressed with the streets in their newer developments, and the use of roundabouts instead of street lights is not just a novelty, but has proven to be a good way to move traffic effectively in areas.

With all that said I'm still glad I moved away! ;-)

"They should send you to Provo." Funny. Once, Provo had a stigma because of the state hospital. There's no mention of this in the article.

I grew up in Provo and loved every minute of it. As we traveled to other states and countries, we were always glad to get back to Provo. To us it was an oasis from the world. Kind of like going from the telestial kingdom to the celestial. It was great! So many wonderful memories! I wouldn't trade them for the world!

RE:Understanding of the World
Wow, what great arrogance to act like BYU is the only school to have returned missionaries. I would be willing to bet that you'd find a comparable percentage of RM's at every University or College in the state. Being an RM and knowing thousands of other RMs that didn't go to BYU I could make the reckless assumption that more RM's go to other Utah schools than go to BYU. That statement however would be no more accurate than your own assumption that BYU has a higher percentage of RM's than any other University in the country.