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Show LYLE Mll.I!R misses the sounds of: early Midvale: Sugar Street in 1911 in one of William Biro's houses. They lived across the road on the other MIWRED NELSON HOLM recalls "We lived "A meadowlark on a pleasant spring morning, perched on the highest point of a utility pole, warbling his morning song, "Midvale is a pretty little place." Then came the smelter whistle at 6 a.m., telling everyone that it was time to be "up and doing." That whistle told smelter workers when to begin work, when to eat lunch and when to go home; it also told young people when to go to bed. It served as our curfew and our fire whistle. Train whistles long and holding people understood. "Even our - some all had most policemen had whistles. Kids called them - hill. Next to our house across the track was the old they kept the engines. Nearby was the celery plant where celery was cleaned for shipping and the beet dump where farmers brought their beets to be shipped to the sugar factory in West Jordan. South of us on the other hill was the Sven Hoganson home. "The Steel Mill was part of the old smelter before it located in Geneva, Utah. Then the building was used as a shop where they cut rock for the State Capitol; the rock came from Little Cottonwood Canyon. Later the building was used as a rock wool factory which was later moved to Sandy. Welch's planing mll is there roundhouse where had short blasts meaning that some on cop whistles; kids and cops all knew each other because the police patrolled the streets on foot then. now." "We had bells in Midvale too: church bells, school bells, sleigh bells, bells on trains. There was a large bell in the belfry over the City jail on the south side of Main St. that tolled the passing of prominent citizens. "On New Year's Eve, at the stroke of midnight, all these sounds broke loose at once to announce the beginning of each New Year. Everyone in Midvale was that a new year had begun and what good years they were." aware - MARGARET SUMMERHAYS remembers: "An Open Air Dance Place in Midvale? Yes, the "Roof Garden" of the Midvale Second Ward. What fond memories of the dances held there on top of the church where you could look out over the whole valley. We had C. I. Golf home Alice Wallgren remembers coming from Lark on the "Bingham Bill" train as a little child and seeing, way to the east, the row of tall,' stately poplar trees curving wonderful music, fun for all ages. "Railroad tracks going right down the middle of Troup trains going and coming to Kearns, utah. A Western Union Station, a Railroad Station, the big fire at the old ice plant; all these along west from the State Road and around the Center Street. Bennett store and post office on planted trees and shrubs Pioneers corner of the Main and Center. as soon as they could getthern. the side of the D&RGW Railroad tracks. pioneers medicated themselves with ingredients they could get. A small bag of She said the the few . "'Jack's Place' the Old Malstrom Store, all on Center Street between the tracks and the red light at Main st. Oh yes, what about "Ma Blynn's." What fun it was to go into the candy store of "Ma" Blynn's and get a quarters worth of candy for a dime or a hand full fo flowers, but asafetida only if "Ma" was there. poultices "A Saturday afternoon memorable." tied around the neck for the winter were as a used for pneumonia or respiratory Coughs were treated with a concotion of copperas, honey and sulphur boiled together. This was infection. movie, cookies from Safeway, or candy Phelps Shop, all these on Main Street made 10<: from Pa was preventative. They made liniments out of turpentine, coal-oil, mutton tallow or vinegar and eggs which was rubbed on the flesh to relieve pain. Frazer's axle grease or bread and milk poultices were used as a salve to draw infection. Flaxseed or mustard plaster disease also used for a canker medicine. 71 |
