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Show CONTEST I .h I • • : • ' . . . 'k lose your eyes and picture a favorite city or town. What comes to mind? For most, people, that mental image includes the heart of the town, Main Street, with its familiar buildings and streetscape. There may be a distinctive courthouse or city hall, perhaps a dignified older church, a corner bank exuding confidence and stability through its architecture, a theater with its look-at-me styling, old family stores next to new enterprises, and rows of no-nonsense commercial buildings. Main Street was where the action was. That is why the image of downtown is so strong. But despite the strength of their image, many Main Streets are dying. They have fallen victim to new strip developments at the edge of town, regional shopping malls, and the realities of today's commerce that is not bounded, as in the past, by proximity to home. Mom-and-Pop stores just can't compete with the big-box retailers. At least not directly. Many small-town Main Streets have found that in order to survive they must offer something different, something distinctive. They have to fill a niche so small and specialized that the big retailers can't or won't bother competing for it. Since its creation in 1995, the Utah Main Street/Pioneer Communities Program has assisted communities throughout the state with revitalizing their downtowns. This program helps save some of the unique commercial architecture in the towns, and, equally important, it helps put those buildings back to use as vital contributors to the local economy. Capturing the essence of Main Street was the focus of this year's photo contest. Contestants from throughout Utah (and some from out of state) submitted over 140 architectural images of Main Street. The judges selected eleven winners, including one grand prize recipient. The five runner-up winners received gift certificates from Borge B. Andersen and Associates, a custom photo lab in Salt Lake City, and the grand prize winner received a "night on the town"-hotel and dinner-from citybest.com. Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to the generous sponsors for making the contest a success. 1. w 46 U T A H P R E S E R V A T I ON Midvale Main Street Jim McClintic, West Valley City Grand Prize Winner U T A H P R E S E R V A T I O N 47 Axtell Post Office Reed Martin, Orangeville David Keith Building 254 S. Main, Salt Lake City Ray Varley, Holladay 48 UTAH P R E S E R V A T I ON Union Block 57 S. Main, Brigham City Rebecca Dilg, Brigham City 'Welcome to Garland" Mural 1 North Main, Garland John Taylor, Tremonton U T A H P R E S E R V A T I O N 49 Ford Store Wallsburg Melinda Cummings, Heber City First Security Bank 315 W. Main Street, Eureka Louise Pollard, Farmington Merit Award Winner 50 UTAH P R E S E R V A T I ON U T A H P R E S E R V A T I O N 51 Sugar House Business District, 1100 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City Mark St. Andre, Salt Lake City Merit Award Winner Tintic Lumber Company Building, Eureka Tom Nedreberg, Eureka Merit Award Winner 52 UTAH P R E S E R V A T I ON R N I 1 U R E G A L L E R I E S Jtkklcy A Tradition of Quality A stylized representation of the Wasatch Mountains. Available in both bangle and cuff. SS, 14 kt, Two-tone. Designed and Crafted by Hansen Co. Jewelers 1588 E. Stratford Ave. • Salt Lake City 801 487-9341 U T A H P R E S E R V A T I O N 53 |
