The Great Salt Lake landmark has endured boom and bust, fires and receding waters, and changing recreation tastes.
cropped up in the second half of the 19th century, including the Lake Point Resort, Black Resort and Garfield Resort.
Excursions to Saltair were to become the choice recreation of most Utahns in the gay '90's. Special rates on the railroads were irresistable to thousands of pleasure seekers to Saltair, many of whom came from distant towns. The Utah Legislature’s appointment of Reed Smoot, then an LDS apostle, to the U.S. Senate in 1903 caused a national firestorm — and a four-year battle in the Senate over whether Smoot was eligible to be a senator.
The resort was so popular, though, that it was rebuilt in 1926, and remained open through the 1950s with more attractions, including bowling alleys, a roller coaster, merry-go-round and a Ferris wheel. Photograph of the second Saltair pavilion under construction in 1925-1926. The sign on the right in the photograph highlights that Saltair II would be built with asbestos shingles, an aid to fire proofing.
Joretta “Jo” Evans was there that day with her cousin Margie, visiting the resort after doing some school shopping. The cousins recently talked about that day, and recalled that the collapse started at the end of the roller coaster farthest from them, and moved steadily toward them. The second Saltair Resort pavilion burned to the ground after it was set ablaze by an arsonist in November 1970. Although the building had been abandoned for several years, this fire signaled the resort's demise. The remaining portions of the pavilion were either demolished and erased from the landscape.As the water of the Great Salt Lake continues to retreat, the bed of land around the lake experiences new problems.
As Merritt takes a reporter on a recent tour of the site, they stumble across a looting nest filled with odd artifacts. There are broken pieces of tableware from the dining hall, white plates outlined with a green floral design that was popular in the 1920s and ‘30s. There also are shards of purple bottles, from the first Saltair, from a Salt Lake City soda bottler from the 1890s.
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