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Old Posted Sep 29, 2013, 10:18 PM
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Lightbulb SLC Game Thread: Identify the Photo

I've had the idea for this thread for a while now, and I'm gonna give it a shot.

Rules: Post a photo taken somewhere in Salt Lake City. It should be moderately difficult to identify the location. Others will respond with a guess of where it was taken. Pretty simple.
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Old Posted Sep 29, 2013, 10:33 PM
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Sounds like a fun game. I'd like to say that I hope we just keep it within Salt Lake City, since expanding into the suburbs would make it infinitely more difficult (and we're far more familiar with what resides within the city than say, you know, Midvale).
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Rio Grande train station, west side.


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I like this game a lot. It reminds me of the "where was the photo taken" segments in the Trib. I've got one. This is one of my favorite spots in Salt Lake to go and relax

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Rio Grande train station, west side.
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I like this game a lot. It reminds me of the "where was the photo taken" segments in the Trib. I've got one. This is one of my favorite spots in Salt Lake to go and relax

Is that the LDS church garden between Harvard and Yale and 1100 and 1300 East? I recently discovered it while walking a couple of weeks ago. I've never seen it in the daylight, nor wintertime. It's dreamy after sundown!
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Yes, it's the Garden Park ward. The "park" used to be the yard of some guy's mansion. When he died, he left the land to the church, who tore his house down and built the chapel. This was my family's ward when I was born.


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Is that the LDS church garden between Harvard and Yale and 1100 and 1300 East? I recently discovered it while walking a couple of weeks ago. I've never seen it in the daylight, nor wintertime. It's dreamy after sundown!
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Hoping for more in this thread. One of the ONLY things I will ever say that I miss about the former DesNews before multiple rounds of layoffs and downsizing was the itty bitty Salt Lake City contest they ran every labor day. It was this same kind of thing except much smaller scale. Loved it.
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The former XMission offices on 400 S, between Main and State. Next door to XMission's new offices. This is just west of that old hotel on the NW corner of State and 400 S. This building used to be covered up in hideous metal panels, but when XMission made it their offices, they removed the metal panels, revealing this pretty facade, which had unfortunately been chipped to put in the dumb metal panels.



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^Correct!
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That little corner (the old hotel and the old x mission offices) could be so beautiful again. I hope it gets some love.
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That little corner (the old hotel and the old x mission offices) could be so beautiful again. I hope it gets some love.

I was driving by there the other day and thought the same thing.
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That little corner (the old hotel and the old x mission offices) could be so beautiful again. I hope it gets some love.
The difficult part of making that corner more attractive is that is the only corner of the four that has any sense of urbanity/sidewalk presence and is enclosed by two of the largest streets in downtown. A tower on the NE corner could help, but it's a very difficult intersection to improve a great deal. You are correct thought that what is there could be improved and it would help that corner some.
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Judge Building, Main & 3rd.
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OK, a hard one. Impossible if you haven't seen it in person, I suppose. But it is downtown.

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Here's an indoor one. (looking up)

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OK, a hard one. Impossible if you haven't seen it in person, I suppose. But it is downtown.

Across the street from the library, South side!
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