Photo Op on the Judge Tramway
Park City had three aerial tramway systems serving different mining operations. The most prominent was the Silver…
Social Life
Halloween from its Origins to Park City
Halloween has its earliest origins with the ancient Celtic festival Samhain, which took place on October 31…
From Ranching to Dancing, part 2
Welcome back to our second and concluding article regarding the history of square dancing in Park City.…
From Ranching to Dancing, part 1
In 1949 Judd and Beth Flinders purchased a 900-acre dairy farm in the Kimball Junction area of…
Full of Character
Carrie Vivian Hodgson arrived in Park City in 1904 and ran a jewelry store at 363 Main…
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…
The Locals’ Spot
It wasn’t a tourist magnet like, say, the Alamo (now the No Name Saloon). Most visitors walked…
The Circus Comes to Town
This article previousy ran back on July 1, 2015. One day in late April 1916, a circus…
Solon Spiro Gets Married
Solon Spiro is best known in Park City for his development of the Silver King Consolidated Mine…
Webb: The Town Photographer
Kendall Webb, born in West Virginia, moved to Park City in 1946. Prior to that, he worked…
A Hundred-year Home
December 2022 marks the 100th birthday of the Elks Building at 550 Main Street. The Benevolent and…
A Decade of Transformation
Park City underwent significant economic and social changes in the 1960s as it started evolving from a…
More than Peanuts and Crackerjacks
In their book accompanying the Smithsonian traveling exhibit ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues /…
Park City’s D.C. McLaughlin Family
David Chase McLaughlin’s parents had grown up in Scotland and met on the same ship coming to…
Prohibition Peters Out
This is the seventh article in a series on Prohibition in Park City. Raids in Park City…
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…
A Brief History of Cannabis in Park City
Situated mostly at altitudes surpassing 7,000 feet – as the t-shirts in the window displays exclaim –…
The King of All Indoor Sports
Said one old timer Parkite, given the pseudonym Pat by the Park Record in a 1979 story,…
Park City’s Oldest Club
This story was submitted by the GFWC Park City Athenaeum Club. This February the GFWC Park City…
Going Downhill Is All Right with the Kids
Today, Park City is a winter sports hub. Before the ski resorts we see today, Parkites could…
One Original Ski Patroller’s Memories
Needless to say, Park City was a little different when I arrived as a pro ski patroller…
A Face Not Your Own
Last week, we discussed minstrelsy in Park City and established how its use of blackface makeup and…
Burnt Cork Fanatics
While actors using blackface and racialized stereotypes dates back to at least the Middle Ages, the advent…
The Great Flower Run
George Wanning was a prominent member of Park City in the 1900s, owning a saloon on Main…
We Get Things Done
The Keetley Depot in its original state before being moved to Park City. The Parkite seniors were…
It’s a Road You’ll Have to Walk Someday
In November of 1946, “two ski lovers and sportsmen,” Otto Carpenter and Bob Burns, approached Mel Fletcher,…
Historic Home Owner a Busy Parkite
Most of Park City’s historic houses follow a handful of standard architectural forms. The hall-parlor, noted for…
On My Honor, to Do My Best
The 108th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America is on February 8. The organization was created…
The Way We Were: 1917
We bid 2017 goodbye on Sunday night. What can we say but, “what a year”? As is…
The Erasure of a Community
The 1880s were a watershed decade for Chinese residents of the United States. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion…
Where the Action Was
Park City in the 1960s was a town in transition. As the mining industry was no longer…
See Truths! Learn Facts!
“Not a Hollywood fantasy!” This poster from 1949, eye-catching with bright reds, yellows, and blues and big,…
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…
Women and Alcohol
The Park City Museum’s current traveling exhibit titled “Spirited: Prohibition in America,” explores the history of American…
A Mason’s Apron
The Free and Accepted Masons are a fraternal organization providing men with opportunities for brotherhood, community service,…
Jolly Good Time in Elkdom
The Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, or Elks for short, was originally founded in New York City…
A Major(ette) Impact
The Park City High School band in the 1940s and early 1950s was in its prime. Under…
The Other Brigham Young
We’ve all heard, of course, of Brigham Young. One of the founding members of the Church of…