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

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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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@larsonfamilyhouse Жыл бұрын

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

@nicholasbintner4677 Жыл бұрын

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

@jaqenhghar2970 Жыл бұрын

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

@seanp8220 6 күн бұрын

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

@josephlloyd9636 Жыл бұрын

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

@2pink1stink Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@justmike2944 9 ай бұрын

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

@AttractionSpot 7 ай бұрын

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

@gloomgaar7636 Жыл бұрын

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✨

@Anglo-Saxon9 Жыл бұрын

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

@robbiesharp311 Жыл бұрын

I saw "Smashing pumpkins" there.

@larsonfamilyhouse Жыл бұрын

Shakedown 1979

@saadr1an Жыл бұрын

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

@seanp8220 6 күн бұрын

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

@richardg1426 Жыл бұрын

Was not the movie Carnival of Souls shot at the Great Saltair in 1962 ?

@thall6842 Жыл бұрын

Yes.

@juliaweber212 Жыл бұрын

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

@kpdvw Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@larsonfamilyhouse Жыл бұрын

And the hats at 1:36?

@terrygunn6723 Жыл бұрын

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

@justdoingitjim7095 Жыл бұрын

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

@goobot1 Жыл бұрын

Uh New York still is

@richardrose9943 Жыл бұрын

Not really

@char1737 Жыл бұрын

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

@TMoody 11 ай бұрын

Carnival Of Souls.

@GraizenBrann Жыл бұрын

😳 wow

@juliaweber212 Жыл бұрын

Disaster striked terrible flooding

@mistyriver1839 Жыл бұрын

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

@jeffreyedmiston9765 Жыл бұрын

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

@Anglo-Saxon9 Жыл бұрын

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

@matthewbeard1831 Жыл бұрын

Old power plant.... hidden history

@larsonfamilyhouse Жыл бұрын

I know, someone send this video to Jon Levi lol

@phantommanass 10 ай бұрын

Smoothbrain lmfao

@justinbayola Жыл бұрын

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

@Ndw1995 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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

@EndlessWaltz Жыл бұрын

It’s a crap hole now.

@JacobAnawalt Жыл бұрын

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.