Historic Hood River
Temple Square
8-19-2022
Notes
The LDS Temple in Salt Lake City was dedicated in 1893. I believe W.F. Laraway visited it sometime between 1900 and 1905. The temple doesn’t appear to have changed much since the horse and buggy days. You can tell Laraway was struggling to find the right angle to capture the grandeur of the structure while working around the poles and wires from the electric trolley. The last of the electric trolley’s were replaced by buses in 1946.
L.E.
I wonder if that is his son, reading the sign.
Driving a horse and buggy during the street car era must have been about as hair-raising as auto and bicycle in today’s downtown.
nels
Arthur can you read the monument on the right of the picture?
ArthurB
nel, I think it says "In memory of Brigham Young, the Pioneer" . It looks like the monument is still there so it should be easy to verify. The font is hard to read.
nels
That horse and open carriage seems to be driven by a woman, and over those tracks. What a dangerous mess.
L.E.
That statue might not be in the same place in the Google photo.
From Wikipedia:
"The Brigham Young Monument (or Pioneer Monument) is a bronzed historical monument located on the north sidewalk of the intersection at Main and South Temple Streets of Salt Lake City, Utah. It was erected in honour of pioneer-colonizer, Utah governor, and LDS Church president Brigham Young who led the Mormon pioneers into the Utah Territory in 1847. The base of the twenty-five-foot monument has the bronze figure of an Indian facing east and that of a bearded fur trapper facing west, both of which preceded the Mormon settlers. On the south side is a bronze bas-relief of a pioneer man, woman, and child, while another bronze plaque has a list of the pioneers who arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847, and their equipment.
The Brigham Young Monument was first displayed at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. It stood briefly afterwards on Temple Square and was then transferred centering the intersection of Main and South Temple streets in 1897, where it stood until 1993, when it was moved a few yards north to its present location.
The monument is the work of Cyrus Edwin Dallin"
nels
Thanks L.E.
Alan Winston
Interesting street railway trackage, with two lines interlacing but not joining as in a typical switch. This could be either a gauntlet, where two tracks overlap then separate again to navigate a constriction (typically a bridge or a tunnel), or it could be where a switch has been stretched out to put the points (the moving parts) in a a better location – safer or mechanically more sound.
kmb
What I find interesting about this picture is the mess of overhead wires. On one level it is unsightly in what would otherwise be a grand picture of an iconic building, but on another level, it enhances the picture by bringing out the stark reality of those times.
ArthurB
kmb, I’ve learned from Alva Day to see the beauty in the overhead wires.