Text 5817, 101 rader
Skriven 2009-05-02 14:05:09 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 5800 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
Ärende: COGNITIVE DIFFICULTY.....
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Bob Ackley -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 BA> Replying to a message of Ed Hulett to Bob Ackley:

 EH>> Bob Ackley -> Dan Ceppa wrote:
 BA>>> Replying to a message of Dan Ceppa to Ed Hulett:

 EH>>>>> It's part of Temple Square.

 DC>>>> Oh!  Dizzyland, Utah.  Why didn't you say so.

 BA>>> One does not want to be there on a Saturday morning if one is not
 BA>>> involved with the church.  In 1972 I was pulling my then brand new
 BA>>> 36' travel trailer (it was my house from 1972 to 1976) from CA to
 BA>>> NE.  At the time I-80 ended on the western edge of SLC and continued
 BA>>> east some miles to the south, missed the sign I guess.  Anyhow I
 BA>>> found myself on the old US40 which apparently runs right past the
 BA>>> Temple, and everybody in Utah seemed to be there that morning.  And
 BA>>> me trying to maneuver a rig that was 8 feet wide and 54 feet long
 BA>>> with a hinge in the middle on narrow (by the then modern standards
 BA>>> and narrower by today's) city streets.

 EH>> Did it happen to occur to you that that Saturday was somehow special,
 EH>> like maybe during General Conference?

 BA> No it didn't.  It's just another day AFAIC.  I was aware that Mormons
existed,
 BA> of course, and that Utah was populated mostly with them; I did *not* know
that
 BA> Saturday had any special significance to them at the time.  And I needed
to go
 BA> through the city.  Since the mid 1970s the Interstate through there has
been
 BA> complete and that hasn't been a problem.

Saturday isn't necessarily significant. The Temple is open Monday through
Saturday, but that wouldn't bring out the number of LDS you claimed were out
that Saturday. The only explanation is that it was during a general conference
weekend.

 EH>> The streets around throughout
 EH>> SLC and especially around Temple Square are wider than the streets in
 EH>> most cities around the globe.

 EH>> You can't even tell a good lie.

 BA> You're right.  It isn't a lie, I was there that day in July of 1972 and
you weren't.

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!

Like the streets magically narrowed that Saturday and then magically widened
after your visit.

 BA> All I really remember from the trip is that the traffic lanes in the
streets of that city
 BA> - 37 years ago - were narrower than the lanes on the Interstate and that
those streets
 BA> were packed with cars and pedestrians.

Of course they aren't as wide as the interstate. They are wide enough to  be
considered boulevards, though.

 BA> That was the *only* time I was *in* the city, I've passed through/by it
several times
 BA> since but always on I-80, the closest stop I made on those trips was at
Saltair on the
 BA> west edge of the city in 1987, and that was only for a few minutes.  If
memory serves
 BA> on that 1987 trip the lake was lapping at the north shoulder of I-80 for a
distance of
 BA> several miles west of the city and there were what appeared to be several
dredges working
 BA> in the lake.

Saltair is 15 miles outside the city. Urban sprawl has occurred, but there
isn't much between SLC and the Saltair other than Salt Lake International
Airport.

The level of Salt Lake varies widely. When I visited twice back in 1993/94, the
lake was a quarter mile from Saltair. As you said, just a few years earlier it
was lapping at the shoulder of I-80. That is why Saltair was abandoned to begin
with. The hotel has been damaged repeatedly since it was first built back in
1893. According to the Saltair website in 2005 a new group of investors have
rebuilt it as a concert venue.

Ed

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