In the mid-fifties, Louis Armstrong came to perform at the Hotel Utah Ballroom. But, because of the color of his skin, he could not stay there. Being the local #1 radio personality, my father Rolfe Peterson had the honor of picking Satchmo up at his hotel near the Union Pacific Station to take him up to the Hotel Utah and back again afterwards. After that, whenever the family was driving by Temple Square, Dad would point up at the statue of Moroni on the temple and say, "Look, kids: There's Satchmo!
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 06:36:02 -0600 From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] best manned mission site Message-ID: <CAHmuOYrKWuRT7AMZ5qu3W=-BNxZVyu2y-TyC6MFgtGroovuOVw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
That's very interesting, Joe!
Salt Lake has attracted quite a few big names over the decades.
The Marx Brothers were traveling by train with Charlie Chaplin once, and stopped in Salt Lake for the night. The story goes that the brothers took Chaplin to a brothel, but he didn't seem interested in the girls, and spent the entire night in the parlor, playing with the Madame's dog. The brothers seemed to have found something else to keep them occupied.
Did you know that the first American pilot to shoot-down an enemy aircraft in combat lived his later years in Salt Lake, as a faculty member at the UofU, and is buried in the Salt Lake City cemetary? I located his grave some years ago; Glen Warchol wrote it up for the Tribune as a Memorial Day piece. He was flying as a volunteer for the French at the time of his victory in WWI, in the Lafayette Flying Corps, long before the US entered the war in 1917.
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
Did you know Burroughs wrote Maid of Mars when he was living in Salt Lake City?
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