Wednesday, August 5, 2020

RC Willey returns to its roots in Layton with new store: A brief history of RC Willey

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                      The new RC Willey store in Layton opened in late July of 2020. This ad in the Weekly Reflex newspaper of Sept. 22, 194...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

When Hollywood disliked Southern Utah’s brightly colored terrain – And even got stranded in a slot canyon

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             Some of the colored rocks, located northeast of Kanab, near Cottonwood Canyon.                                       ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

A pair of never built roads in Bryce Canyon National Park: One in the bottom and the other a loop road

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BRYCE Canyon National Park had somewhat of a lackluster beginning, being in the shadows of the more highly esteemed sister park, Zion. Fro...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

When dynamite could have destroyed Lone Peak ...

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COULD Lone Peak have been destroyed by a dynamite blast in 1937?   “Will dynamite crash hilltop(?)” was the headline of an As...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

A look at early ship wrecks on the briny and unpredictable Great Salt Lake

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                                   The Great Salt Lake southwest of Antelope Island.  THERE seems to have been plenty of boate...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

A pair of antique advertisements: One from Ogden in 1959; And one from Parowan in 1933

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HERE are 2 classic ads from past decades in Utah: A KLO radio ad from the Ogden Standard-Examiner of Oct. 2, 1959. -------------------...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Confrontations with ‘monster’ rattlesnakes in early Utah

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                           A snake warning sign, just off the road, north of Boise, Id. RATTLESNAKES are a critical part of Utah’s...