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Way We Were: Park City's Music Man, part 2

Above all else, Santy is remembered for his campaign to save the old Park City High School. The imposing building on Park Avenue housed high school students including Jim and Carol Santy and, eventually, their three children between 1927 and 1977, and middle-school students from 1977 to 1982. Three years later the city bought the decaying shell for $1.3 million. ....

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Way We Were: Park City's Music Man, part 1

“I’ll be a resident of this town until they bury me,” Jim Santy once said, “and then I’ll be a permanent fixture.” ....

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Presentation unearths the story of mining magnate Solon Spiro

An upcoming lecture will spotlight Silver King Consolidated Mines owner Solon Spiro, standing behind his wife, Ida, the second from the right. ....

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Way We Were: Solon Spiro gets married

Solon Spiro is best known in Park City for his development of the Silver King Consolidated Mine in Thaynes Canyon. But for his first 20 years in Utah, he was known as the manager and secretary of the M.S. Ascheim Mercantile Co., a clothing store in town. Despite working in Park City, he could afford to live in Salt Lake City, which at that time had much cleaner air and was a more respectable town. ....

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Way We Were: Improvise, adapt, overcome

Improvise, adapt, overcome is a mindset, a philosophy embodied in the culture of the U.S. Marine Corps. So too for multiple generations of Parkites. Mining communities are accustomed to boom and bust cycles. It’s the nature of that industry. In the face of financial gloom, preservation depends on collaboration, resiliency and neighbors helping neighbors. ....

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