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?

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

 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.

You're right.  It isn't a lie, I was there that day in July of 1972 and you weren't.
All I really remember from the trip is that the traffic lanes in the
streets of that city
- 37 years ago - were narrower than the lanes on the Interstate and that
those streets
were packed with cars and pedestrians.

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


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