sock puppet wrote:Your venue will be tops on my list to visit the day of Kishapalooza Redux. I hope there is a good view of and manifestations on the Apocalrock. I also want to go to Gilgal Gardens, get my picture taken in front of JSJr/Sphinx. Then of course, no trip to Salt Lake City would be complete these days without a stop at the Jack Mormon Coffee Co and then the Beerhive Pub on Main St across from Lamb's café. What else, Blixa?
And to think, when I was kid my parents would only take me on visits to Salt Lake City to Temple Square, the Beehive House, This is the Place monument, etc. You get the idea. Boring.
This is gonna be so much more fun. It would be fantastic if Stak could come to Salt Lake City for it.
I should sit down at some point and make a little tour guide. Unfortunately, my list of suggestions would be hard to fit into a day or an afternoon.
I LOVED going to Temple Square when I was a kid, Sock! Of course, those were the days of the mummies in the museum. The Beehive House was also fun then, always a piece of horehound candy and no testimony bearing and demands for names and address for follow-ups. This is the Place Monument was also cool to visit, because either just before, or just after you drove up to it, you passed an older marker, a simple and small obelisk with a cattle skull on it that must have been an earlier (original?) marker. I don't even know if its still there; when I was there at the theme park the place has now been turned into, you couldn't even access that part of the hill unless you were on some kind of "train ride."
Pioneer Village, which used to be off 23rd East, was also great fun as a kid. I never saw it after its relocation to Lagoon, but I think what was left of it was used for parts of the This Is The Place theme park. I haven't fully investigated what that whole scene is like now, it looked way too much like nostalgia tourism from the glimpse I got in 2007. I do need to check it out sometime because if I'm not mistaken there is a replica of the Cedar City Tithing House there. And if you remember what was once housed in that building, and how even after two years Major Carleton reported he could still smell the blood, well, that just blows my mind.
I would say you shouldn't miss the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum. It's chock full of both the fascinating and the banal, so it takes some time to meander through. But I think you'll be well rewarded when you stumble on a peep stone or two...
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