Salt Lake City streets, 1970 February 05

Item — video: 11

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Scope and Contents

Street numbering system is off in Avenues and West Side. 01:18.

Louise Degn's note: I'd lived in Salt Lake for five months in an apartment on 3rd Avenue. All my life I'd heard about Brigham Young's well-ordered street grid system and thought this anomaly in the numbering system was very odd. I shot the story with a Bell and Howell silent camera. In those days, the sound and picture were not edited together before the newscast but were mixed live on air (see Item 1 on this disc about Early TV News). Since this story has quick cuts, it was out-of-sync on the 6pm news. I was furious! At 10pm, however, they were more careful and got it right. In recreating these stories for DVD, I had the luxury of syncing sound and picture as close as possible. The original voice track was lost and has been rerecorded for this 2002 reconstruction. In 1972, the city of Salt Lake fixed the numbering problem by renaming First West as Second West, etc. The north streets were also renamed since they too were off-numbered. The Avenues numbering, however, was not changed. Photographer/Editor: Louise Degn. Original script available.

Dates

1970 February 05

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