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Saltair
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| About the photograph: I am standing on
the shore of the Great Salt Lake in the center of pilings that once
held a railway line that led to Saltair, the LDS
Church’s day-trip resort. I am looking back at I-80; to
my left, it is fifteen miles to Salt Lake City. To my right, it leads to
Tooele (pronounced “Tuh-WILL-uh.”) The sand I am
standing on is soft, alkaline, dry and dusty on the surface, spongy
and unstable underfoot. The smell is pervasive, a reek of
sulfurous decay, redolent with rotten eggs and dead brine shrimp. It’s an
enervatingly hot day, and I am glad to have brought adequate water.
Few places in Utah show such compelling and dramatic reminders of impermanence.
Saltair was once a thriving and popular destination, drawing thousands of visitors per day in the teens and
twenties; business declined in the thirties, but still the owners (a major partner was the LDS Church) thought
it would be profitable to rebuild Saltair in a new, improved, larger-than-ever manner.
The railroad was called the Salt Lake, Garfield & Western:
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| Approximate location of Saltairs 1 and 2 View Larger Map |
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| Location of Saltair 3 View Larger Map |
| There is a book on Saltair: Saltair, by Nancy D. McCormick and John S. McCormick, 1985, Bonneville Books, 136pp. 
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