Drunkenness and Moralizing in Early Park City
Alcohol was a famous component of daily life in the old American West, and the West’s miners…
Saloons
Last Call at Down Under
This article is continued from last week. “In all the years I worked at the Claimjumper, I…
The Locals’ Spot
It wasn’t a tourist magnet like, say, the Alamo (now the No Name Saloon). Most visitors walked…
Political Violence
Politics are not often polite. And that phenomenon is not unique to today (or just the U.S.).…
The Park Record Grows Frustrated with Prohibition Violation
This is the sixth article in a series on Prohibition in Park City. “Ever since Prohibition went…
Barber, Brawler, and Bootlegger Alex Hamlin
This is the fourth article in a series on Prohibition in Park City. Alex Hamlin, referred to…
The Park Record Pleads for Prohibition
This is the second article in a series on Prohibition in Park City. “Park City is ‘dry,’…
Prohibition Approaches Park City
This is the first article in a series on Prohibition in Park City. Nationwide Prohibition was ratified…
The King of All Indoor Sports
Said one old timer Parkite, given the pseudonym Pat by the Park Record in a 1979 story,…
Movies on Main
When thinking about film in Park City, most people imagine the Sundance Film Festival, or perhaps the…
Park City Saloons
Joe Minetti tending bar at the Minetti and DeAngelis saloon in February 1916 according to the calendar…
Vanishing Bull: The Saga of a Celebrated Sign
In September 1976, during a remodeling of the Red Banjo Pizza Parlour at 322 Main Street, workmen…
The Dream Team
Welcome back to our second article on the Oak Saloon, one of Park City’s most popular saloons…
Beer and Ice Cream?
Beer and ice cream served at a saloon in Park City? Yes, as part of a unique…
What is a Solid Muldoon?
The name of the Deer Valley ski run “Solid Muldoon” comes from a Park City mining claim…
Did Butch Cassidy rob the Oak Saloon?
There were over twenty bars on Park City's Main Street in the early 1900s. Of them all,…