Two employees, Sky Room, Hotel Utah

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Title Two employees, Sky Room, Hotel Utah
Photo Number p0283n01_04_55
Description Photo shows two employees of the Sky Room Restaurant on the 10th floor of the Hotel Utah in the 1960s or 1970s
Keywords Starlite Gardens; Roof Gardens; Sky Room; Roof Restaurant; The Roof; Meals; Eating and drinking spaces; Grand hotels
Subject Sky Room (Hotel Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah)--Photographs; Restaurants--Utah--Salt Lake City--Photographs; Hotels--Utah--Salt Lake City--Photographs; Hotel Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah)--Employees--Photographs; Dinners and dining; Food; Restaurants; Hotels; Employees
Additional Information Hotel Utah's rooftop restaurant opened in 1914 with the name "Roof Gardens." It was located atop the original west wing of the 10-story building. Renamed "Starlite Gardens" in 1936, it offered open-air dining and dancing under canopies. A renovation in 1961 enclosed it with a roof and glass windows, and it was renamed the "Sky Room." It was actually two rooms, one designed after a French pattern, the other after an English club. After the 1974-1976 renovation, when the west wing was extended northward, the restaurant extended into the north end and was renamed "The Roof." Hotel Utah closed in 1987, was remodeled as office space for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was rededicated as the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in 1993. In that year, the Roof restaurant reopened in the north half of the tenth floor west wing, to continue its tradition of fine dining. The original space to the south became the Garden Restaurant, with furnishings and skylight that capture some of the atmosphere of the early decades.
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City (Utah); Salt Lake County (Utah)
Collection Number and Name P0283 Hotel Utah Photograph Collection
Date 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974
Textual Date 1961-1974
Genre color photographs
Access Restrictions This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Multimedia Archives, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.
Type Image
Master File Creation Software Photoshop CS
ARK ark:/87278/s6ks76d7
Setname uum_hu
ID 205995
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ks76d7
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