Secret Salt Lake City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Where can you find a chunk of the Matterhorn enshrined at a Utah ski resort? What is the origin of Josepa, the Hawaiian ghost town in the desert? And why is Utah called the Beehive State? You hold in your hands the answers to these questions and more in this guide to the oddities, wonders, myths, and legends of Utah’s capital city. Secret Salt Lake City opens a window into the weird, the bizarre, and the obscure secrets of the city, some of which are hiding in plain sight.
Founded by religious pioneers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1847, its one-of-a-kind origin story makes Salt Lake City a rich backdrop for frontier grit, culture, and curious relics. Did you know that there is an alphabet hidden in your computer that was invented in Salt Lake City? What is the significance of the religious symbols on the Salt Lake Temple? And how did Sherlock Holmes solve a fictional mystery in London that originated in Utah?
Lifetime resident and author Jeremy Pugh and Mary Brown Malouf unlock these mysteries and more to pull back the curtain on the secrets of Salt Lake City. This isn’t your traditional guidebook, and it will enrich your visit to the Crossroads of the West.
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Secret Salt Lake City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Where can you find a chunk of the Matterhorn enshrined at a Utah ski resort? What is the origin of Josepa, the Hawaiian ghost town in the desert? And why is Utah called the Beehive State? You hold in your hands the answers to these questions and more in this guide to the oddities, wonders, myths, and legends of Utah’s capital city. Secret Salt Lake City opens a window into the weird, the bizarre, and the obscure secrets of the city, some of which are hiding in plain sight.
Founded by religious pioneers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1847, its one-of-a-kind origin story makes Salt Lake City a rich backdrop for frontier grit, culture, and curious relics. Did you know that there is an alphabet hidden in your computer that was invented in Salt Lake City? What is the significance of the religious symbols on the Salt Lake Temple? And how did Sherlock Holmes solve a fictional mystery in London that originated in Utah?
Lifetime resident and author Jeremy Pugh and Mary Brown Malouf unlock these mysteries and more to pull back the curtain on the secrets of Salt Lake City. This isn’t your traditional guidebook, and it will enrich your visit to the Crossroads of the West.
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Secret Salt Lake City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Secret Salt Lake City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Secret Salt Lake City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Secret Salt Lake City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

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Overview

Where can you find a chunk of the Matterhorn enshrined at a Utah ski resort? What is the origin of Josepa, the Hawaiian ghost town in the desert? And why is Utah called the Beehive State? You hold in your hands the answers to these questions and more in this guide to the oddities, wonders, myths, and legends of Utah’s capital city. Secret Salt Lake City opens a window into the weird, the bizarre, and the obscure secrets of the city, some of which are hiding in plain sight.
Founded by religious pioneers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1847, its one-of-a-kind origin story makes Salt Lake City a rich backdrop for frontier grit, culture, and curious relics. Did you know that there is an alphabet hidden in your computer that was invented in Salt Lake City? What is the significance of the religious symbols on the Salt Lake Temple? And how did Sherlock Holmes solve a fictional mystery in London that originated in Utah?
Lifetime resident and author Jeremy Pugh and Mary Brown Malouf unlock these mysteries and more to pull back the curtain on the secrets of Salt Lake City. This isn’t your traditional guidebook, and it will enrich your visit to the Crossroads of the West.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781681060736
Publisher: Reedy press, LLC.
Publication date: 05/15/2021
Series: Secret
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 1,030,623
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jeremy Pugh is a writer living in Salt Lake City who has been writing about culture, history, and the outdoors in Utah for more than two decades. The managing editor of Salt Lake magazine, Pugh is a also freelancer and consultant writing for SKI, Range, and Via magazines. He invites you to share your SLC experiences on Twitter and Instagram at @100thingsSLC and read his writing at VeryDynamite.com.

A lifelong passion for exploring cultures through art, nature, cuisine, and other oddities led to a career in writing about food, travel, people, and places for Mary Brown Malouf. She was the editor of Salt Lake magazine for countless years and published in D magazine, Food Network magazine, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, Better Homes & Gardens, Ski Utah, Frommer’s Utah.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction x

Gilgal Sculpture Garden 2

Ted Bundy's Murder Cellar 4

Go Up (Down?) on Gravity Hill 6

The Exile of Jean Baptiste 8

The All-Seeing Eye and Other Arcane Glyphs 10

Space Jesus 12

The Mahatma in SLC 14

How 'bout Them Jazz? 16

Ogden Underground 18

Mormon Hooch 20

A Meeting of Minds 22

Ensign Peak 24

Banksy Tags Park City 26

Our Lady of 200 South 28

Emo's Grave 30

Our Lady of the Elm Tree 32

Artesian Well Park 34

The Swiss Connection 36

Two-Headed Lamb 38

The End of World War II Started in Utah 40

Speed Racer 42

Mormon Forgery and the Mad Bomber 44

Famous Quills 46

With a Little Help from Friends 48

Finger-Lickin' Good 50

Crispin Glover's Handprints 52

The Strange Disappearance of Everett Ruess 54

The Rest 56

Porter Rockwell's Grave 58

The Deseret Alphabet 60

ZCMI Center Façade 62

The Swamps of Utah 64

Floating on a Sea of Salt 66

The Great Flood of 1983 68

Sherlock Holmes in Utah 70

The Stockades 72

The Spiral Jetty 74

Liberty Park Natural Springs 76

Sundance Kid Bar 78

The Sun Tunnels 80

A Very Dark Double Dip 82

Inside the Pyramid 84

Bonneville Seabase 104

Hail Princess Alice 106

Homestead Caldera 108

The Secret Park 110

Library Bees 112

The Lost Hawaiian Colony 114

The Phantom of 3300 South 116

One Night of Horror in Ogden 118

Old-Fashioned GPS 120

Welcome to the Sasq-Wasatch 122

Bar X 124

A Golden Spike Marks the Spot 126

And You Thought California Redwoods Were Ancient 128

The Largest Living Thing on Earth 130

Rock 'n' Roll Mill 132

The King of Books 134

Seagull Monument 136

A Message from Ralphael 138

The Beehive State 140

The Lost Indian 142

Lagoon 144

The House That Disney (Fans) Built 146

The Immortal Brewery 148

The Show Started Here 150

A Glimpse of What's Out There, Right Here (Here) 152

No Mountain at Thunder Mountain 154

Hell's Backbone Road 156

The Haunting of Fort Douglas 158

Power Girlz 160

The Legend(s) of Allen Park 162

The Angel Moroni 164

High, High West 166

Utah's "Nessie" 168

An Arena Underground 170

The Place 172

The Lynching of Samuel Harvey 174

The Moormeister Murder 176

Murder at Hell's Hollow 178

The Armed Robbery Spree of Lance and Kelbach 180

A Historic Typo in Little Cottonwood Canyon 182

Treasures in Plain Sight 184

The Great Lake Effect 186

Sources 188

Index 193

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