If I recall correctly, this deal was made during David Gardner’s presidency. It took a number of years for it to be phased in. I recall him saying that there were others in competition for the land, I don’t know who, but he was pretty sure the U would get it. I wonder how they will use it? Anyone know?
What I know about Ft. Douglas is that Utah crushed them in football 129-0 in 1905. Good grief, what do you suppose the Ft. Douglas coach said to his team in the locker room at halftime down 70-0 or whatever it must have been?
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We sure owned them that day, but now we literally own them.
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Expand the medical center, hospitals and teaching schools? More dorms? More space for expanded athletic facilities?
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Hopefully, they don’t tear anything down.
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They have been refurbishing the old duplex officers houses next to Red Butte outdoor arena. I imagine they are staying and likely have historical merit. The old movie theater is a gem and is perfect for small performances.
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Have to wonder if there will be something associated with the future Olympic village in mind. Didn’t they do something similar for the last Olympics?
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I wasn’t living here at the time, but it seems to me that the new dorms were actually built to house the Olympic teams, and then became student dorms–which was the plan all along. Am I remembering that correctly?
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That is correct.
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Some of the housing going up will benefit UHealth employees who struggle to get reasonable housing that isn’t 50 miles away.
University of Colorado Health built an apartment building to help fill positions for their hospital in Steamboat Springs. Before that they had positions opened for 2 years. Ski town, granted, but similar housing challenges.
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Sounds like a good idea to me.
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More info:
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I thought I knew a lot about the fort and its history, but several items were news to me. Thanks for posting.
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Ditto here!
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I went through the museum recently. Didn’t even know it was there. Wasn’t able to spend as much time as I would have liked – one of the gkids was getting antsy.
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I’ve always found this history interesting as I have ancestors from the Mormon Pioneers and Johnston’s Army. One thing I’ve noticed hiking the hills above this area, and something I try to remind myself of, is what the valley looked like at the time the pioneers arrived and then when the army built their base.
Buildings and homes have made this all into one area, but back then it was 10-15,000 people all living right around the temple square area and then a few miles up on a hill overlooking everything an army base with canons pointed out towards the people below. And also an army base right in view of emigrating travelers entering the valley for the first time. The location was intentional.
Distrust was high on both sides and honestly warranted both ways. Its kind of a wonder a battle didn’t break out.
Fun times.
Another brain bender in that regard. My parents told me often that when they moved out around 3300 South when they first got married they wondered how life would be living so far away from the city. I have an old LDS church program that has an advertisement from SouthEast Furniture Co. (now Sterling Furniture on 2100 South and 1100 East) that promotes, “Drive out and save prices.”
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Growing up in Sugarhouse in the late 1050s and throughout the 60s, we always considered a trip to downtown SLC a significant journey. Ordinarily we took the bus to get there. I considered 33rd South the end of the known world.
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Growing up in the middle Avenues (9th Ave and I St) in the early 60’s was the same. Everything we did regularly, school, church, groceries, BookMobile, etc. we could walk to. For everything else, we did as @LAUte, and rode the bus downtown (for me, particularly, music lessons).
I had a cousin who lived in a new neighborhood, White City, a suburb of Sandy Utah. He was my favorite cousin, so I browbeat my parents into driving there occasionally on Sunday’s after church for a visit. It was a BIG trip for a regular Sunday, and always involved traveling through several other small cities along the way, South Salt Lake, Murray, Midvale, Sandy, and then finally White City. In between each of those small towns, was open fields and farmlands.
We took the short drive to 9th and 9th, for my sister’s dance, and gymnastic lessons, and the longer drive to Sugarhouse occasionally for furniture shopping. We rarely went further than the Oak Hills Drive for a family movie, and dressed up and rode the bus downtown as a family to see both Mary Poppins, and The Sound of Music.
I remember the old Air Force Plane that was on the northeast corner of Foothill.and Sunnyside, and I recall watching army maneuvers that involved tanks, in the area that is now Research Park.
We used to hike to the Block U on the mountain the the LIme Kiln, and the Sulphur Cave northwest fo there.
And yes, 33rd south was the end of the world in those days.
Starting in 2nd grade, (probably 1963) my elementary school, Ensign, which was then (still) on 9th Ave and E Street, started busing us occasionally to perform Ute Basketball Game halftime shows.
In the late 60s, when I was in Junior High (Bryant) we discovered how much fun it was to watch football and see all the cute girls from class at the Ute football games at old Ute Stadium. I think we mostly got in free as we sat on the asphalt in the north end-zone.
In 1972, my parents moved to White City, and by then there were MUCH less open areas or farmlands in between, but still infinitely more than today. The next summer, I has a summer job working construction labor for a small firm. Two of our jobs that summer were in Draper, which was then really still an old farming community. From my house in Sandy, there was almost nothing but open space, fields, pastures, farmland in between.
The world was a little different then. Fun memories.
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Sugarhouse must have been wild in the middle ages.
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Only LA and Turk would have clear memory of those times
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