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Show THE FOLLOWING IS AN INTERVIEW WITH J. HOLMAN WATERS ON JULY 16, 1977. THE INTERVIEWER IS HYNDA RUDD AND THE SUBJECT IF MR. SAMUEL NEWHOUSE. HR: Mr. Waters, who was your father? JW: My father was James H. Waters. He was born in Jackson, Michigan, but his parents emigrated to Park City when he was very young. He grew up in Park City, Utah. There he met my mother and they were married. At the time of their marriage in 1906, they came to Salt Lake City and leased a small hotel called the Windsor Hotel, which was located on Main Street below Second South on the east side of the street. Later he was able to lease the Kenyon Hotel, which was located on the corner of Main Street and Second South where the present J.C. Penney store is now located. HR: I see. JW: That hotel at that time was the second largest hotel in Salt Lake City, second to the Hotel Utah which opened sometime before that. It was while my dad was leasing the Kenyon Hotel that I was born. HR: You were born here? JW: I was born when they were leasing the Kenyon Hotel. Later he leased a hotel in California. Then, even later than that, he operated a resort hotel in Iowa, the Manhattan Beach Hotel, on Lake Okepogee, Iowa. Evidently, Mr. Newhouse got acquainted with my father when he was operating the Kenyon Hotel, although the Newhouse Hotel was not open at that time. He had started to build it and |
