The Rise and fall of the Great Saltair: The search for Utah’s lost world class lakefront resort

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  • Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
  • At one point, the Great Salt Lake was home to a lakefront resort bringing in big crowds, including celebrities and U.S. Presidents. KSL's Dan Spindle looks into the rise and fall of that resort and how it ties into our efforts to save the precious resource.
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  • @fivethreeyearolds8562
    @fivethreeyearolds8562 2 роки тому +19

    I've lived here my whole life and never knew the history of the Great Saltair! Amazing!! I have been there for events and concerts over the last 3 decades. It's a magical place 🙌

    • @abrahamelliott9806
      @abrahamelliott9806 2 роки тому +5

      I do a lot of reading and studied a lot of history i did know this place before but didn't know this much about it. Our country has so many amazing things maybe we should focus on these things instead of what we've been focusing on in our country just saying we've done incredible things for the development of our country and our people thank God.

    • @joejacko1587
      @joejacko1587 2 роки тому +2

      i remember living out in west valley before they brought it back in the 90's riding my bike out there use to by a railroad car that was a deli and giftshop

  • @LChem1
    @LChem1 2 роки тому +13

    And Saltaire is the main feature in the movie Carnivale of Souls. 1962. I just watched it

    • @larsonfamilyhouse
      @larsonfamilyhouse 2 роки тому +3

      Just looked it up and that sounds amazing! I can’t wait to watch it!!! 🎪

    • @nicholasbintner4677
      @nicholasbintner4677 Рік тому +2

      I live in Philadelphia, Carnival of Souls in my favorite movie, I wanna go to Saltair so badly lol

  • @jaqenhghar2970
    @jaqenhghar2970 Рік тому +15

    the look got cheaper with each rebuild. The original Saltair had the best look.

    • @seanp8220
      @seanp8220 2 місяці тому

      That's always the case - and it's always a previous civilizations work. look up corn palaces too. in sioux city Iowa, farmers could build moorish palaces too lol

  • @AttractionSpot
    @AttractionSpot 9 місяців тому +2

    This is so cool. A lot of people just knew they had 1 roller coaster. But they actuallt had 3 roller coasters!

  • @justmike2944
    @justmike2944 11 місяців тому +4

    Carnival of souls . A great movie from 1964 . A cult favorite

  • @josephlloyd9636
    @josephlloyd9636 2 роки тому +8

    Were living through Extremely complex & Changing Times. 🍃🌼💕🏆👍

  • @Anglo-Saxon9
    @Anglo-Saxon9 2 роки тому +7

    It's quite sad how many Utahn's in the comments didn't know the history until now.

  • @2pink1stink
    @2pink1stink Рік тому +4

    If you would like to learn more, the magna main Street museum in the old JC Penney building has a built replica, swimsuits and all kind of relics from the era.

  • @lovinglife6080
    @lovinglife6080 2 роки тому +6

    Thats so awesome to see this and hear about this beautiful building it's gone through alot thank you for showing us about the the Great Saltair

  • @gloomgaar7636
    @gloomgaar7636 2 роки тому +5

    Woah so cool, lived here my whole and never knew about it’s history. Now when I go raving there the history is all I’m going to think about✨

  • @robbiesharp311
    @robbiesharp311 2 роки тому +6

    I saw "Smashing pumpkins" there.

  • @saadr1an
    @saadr1an 2 роки тому +5

    Been through fire and flooding, its crazy how much Saltair has been through

    • @seanp8220
      @seanp8220 2 місяці тому

      if it hadnt been sabotaged - it wouldnt have been through anything. like the brighton west pier etc

  • @juliaweber212
    @juliaweber212 2 роки тому +4

    It is so beautiful inside it has A stair case for royalty it's beautiful

  • @kpdvw
    @kpdvw 2 роки тому +7

    Just imagine a artificial fresh water lake and a Saltair Gaming /Casino with mono rail to /from SLC airport to bring in the High rollers and their Money...!

    • @larsonfamilyhouse
      @larsonfamilyhouse 2 роки тому +3

      High rollers wouldn’t ride a mono rail probably but they should keep it salty for the healing properties- sounds great! Bring back that boardwalk please!

  • @mattthomas1369
    @mattthomas1369 2 роки тому +5

    4:40 his hat gives him “+5 intelligence “

  • @terrygunn6723
    @terrygunn6723 2 роки тому +3

    the Bamberger ran out there according to my Mom a lot of time she spent out there

  • @justdoingitjim7095
    @justdoingitjim7095 2 роки тому +4

    Yea and Detroit, Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles used to be big tourist destinations. Not so much these days!

  • @char1737
    @char1737 Рік тому +1

    It was in carnival of souls a film by Mormons for Mormons you can also see ZCMI department store in the film as well

  • @tubbers20
    @tubbers20 10 днів тому

    Reminds me of Sutro's and the old Cliff House in San Francisco. Fire also destroyed them.

  • @TMoody
    @TMoody Рік тому +1

    Carnival Of Souls.

  • @matthewbeard1831
    @matthewbeard1831 2 роки тому +6

    Old power plant.... hidden history

  • @juliaweber212
    @juliaweber212 2 роки тому

    Disaster striked terrible flooding

  • @GraizenBrann
    @GraizenBrann 2 роки тому

    😳 wow

  • @mistyriver1839
    @mistyriver1839 Рік тому

    When did they start dumping sewer into the lake? Was it after they were swimming in it?

  • @justinbayola
    @justinbayola 2 роки тому +6

    You can't save something that has been drying up for thousands of years....

    • @Thefloorsspeakyiddish
      @Thefloorsspeakyiddish 2 роки тому +5

      Very true. Humans have little impact on our climate, especially in the 21st century with our cleaner technology, but it is being politicized for financial gain these days

    • @Anglo-Saxon9
      @Anglo-Saxon9 2 роки тому +4

      It's normal for the lake to fluctuate in size, but the current water levels are human caused. We have had a huge problem with overconsumption of water over the past hundred years or so. The way they manage stuff here is absolutely ridiculous and if they did it properly we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.

  • @leonardodavincihallelujah
    @leonardodavincihallelujah 5 місяців тому

    I demand removal of wooden telephone poles. The pole was ugly in front of the Temple, in this video.
    Shame.

  • @jeffreyedmiston9765
    @jeffreyedmiston9765 2 роки тому

    it's not lakepoint it's point of the mountain

    • @Anglo-Saxon9
      @Anglo-Saxon9 2 роки тому +1

      Are there two? the only point of the mountain I am aware of is the one that leads to Utah valley?

  • @EndlessWaltz
    @EndlessWaltz Рік тому

    It’s a crap hole now.

  • @JacobAnawalt
    @JacobAnawalt Рік тому +1

    It must have been all those Alfalfa farmers with their huge square bales being shipped to Texas and Saudi Arabia lowering the lake in the 20's and 30's. Or maybe it was the jet-setting masses and their millions of cars causing global warming in the era before Jets and before hockey-stick global temperature graphs, warming their way out of the mini ice-age several decades earlier.
    Geologists say the Salt Lake is a remnant of the gigantic Lake Bonneville, practically an inland sea. Somehow climate change over the last 30 million years shrunk it to the little puddle it is now. It must have been the campfires of those billions of primitive "cave" people causing climate change.
    I am not saying we should use every drop before it gets to the lake, or that we should just let it dry up without changing our ways. I think we can all cut back a mostly equal percentage, and I like the idea of legally granting the lake water rights that preempt nearly all others, to a live or die level. I am just trying to point out that some of these things that seem new and caused by us today, are not really that new. It's like being amazed at this winter's snowfall or this spring's runoff when we literally saw the same 40 years ago and have geological record of the same further back.

  • @kimberlyrobbins4047
    @kimberlyrobbins4047 2 роки тому +2

    False history.

    • @larsonfamilyhouse
      @larsonfamilyhouse 2 роки тому +1

      If you listen carefully you can read between the lines. They said something like it rose from the ground and then the people came:)

    • @ae86hatch14
      @ae86hatch14 2 роки тому +2

      No, I think it's all certified and well documented history

  • @ryneread3257
    @ryneread3257 2 роки тому

    eww they bathed in the water , im glad its vanishing haha

  • @ajura8926
    @ajura8926 2 роки тому

    It looked white only.

    • @larsonfamilyhouse
      @larsonfamilyhouse 2 роки тому +1

      That was only a thing in the south. And for lds church positions lol

    • @goobot1
      @goobot1 2 роки тому

      Well there was still segregation

  • @ADAMSIXTIES
    @ADAMSIXTIES 3 місяці тому +2

    Hands up if Carnival if Souls brought you here.