Promoting travel in Denver & the vicinity...
Item # 701679
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DENVER HOTEL BULLETIN, Colorado, June 24, 1898
* Saltair Beach Bathing Resort ad
* "Coney Island of the West"
* LDS Church - Mormons - Mormonism
An interesting "newspaper" that appears to have been printed daily for eight years. It promoted the various hotels in the vicinity, as if a product of the Chamber of Commerce.
Page 3 has a advertisement for train trip to: "Saltair Beach Bathing Resort" at Salt Lake City, Utah. Includes a illustration of the resort. (see images) Other travel-related items as well. The back page has a map of Denver noting the location of the various hotels.
Four pages, various older tape mends, some minor tears at the margins.
Background: The shifting fortunes of the Saltair Beach Bathing Resort mirror the broader cultural, economic, and environmental evolution of Utah and the American West. Originally conceived by the LDS Church as a progressive statement of cultural integration, the resort proved that Utah could offer world-class, secular entertainment while maintaining a wholesome environment, bridging a stark social divide between Mormon settlers and the "outside" world. As it transitioned into the Jazz Age, Saltair evolved into a vibrant cultural melting pot that connected isolated Western communities to national trends, hosting legendary big bands and later serving as a haunting cinematic symbol of Americana in the cult classic Carnival of Souls. However, its repetitive cycle of catastrophic fires, coupled with the unpredictable rise and fall of the Great Salt Lake, transforms Saltair into an enduring cautionary tale of human ambition clashing with environmental reality. Today, the venue stands not just as a music hall, but as a resilient monument to a changing region—a place where the ghosts of 19th-century optimism, mid-century decay, and modern reinvention all converge on a desolate, salty shore.
* Saltair Beach Bathing Resort ad
* "Coney Island of the West"
* LDS Church - Mormons - Mormonism
An interesting "newspaper" that appears to have been printed daily for eight years. It promoted the various hotels in the vicinity, as if a product of the Chamber of Commerce.
Page 3 has a advertisement for train trip to: "Saltair Beach Bathing Resort" at Salt Lake City, Utah. Includes a illustration of the resort. (see images) Other travel-related items as well. The back page has a map of Denver noting the location of the various hotels.
Four pages, various older tape mends, some minor tears at the margins.
Background: The shifting fortunes of the Saltair Beach Bathing Resort mirror the broader cultural, economic, and environmental evolution of Utah and the American West. Originally conceived by the LDS Church as a progressive statement of cultural integration, the resort proved that Utah could offer world-class, secular entertainment while maintaining a wholesome environment, bridging a stark social divide between Mormon settlers and the "outside" world. As it transitioned into the Jazz Age, Saltair evolved into a vibrant cultural melting pot that connected isolated Western communities to national trends, hosting legendary big bands and later serving as a haunting cinematic symbol of Americana in the cult classic Carnival of Souls. However, its repetitive cycle of catastrophic fires, coupled with the unpredictable rise and fall of the Great Salt Lake, transforms Saltair into an enduring cautionary tale of human ambition clashing with environmental reality. Today, the venue stands not just as a music hall, but as a resilient monument to a changing region—a place where the ghosts of 19th-century optimism, mid-century decay, and modern reinvention all converge on a desolate, salty shore.
Category: Post-Civil War
Price
$57
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.