Beneath the Wraps

  We checked out of Layton ’ s Comfort Inn and headed toward Salt Lake City.   Richard had decided that Jaime and I would need to bring some Salt Water Taffy home to our friends.   He decided that we would have to buy from the most expensive place he could think of:   Trolley Square . Hey, Trolley Square does have its perks – but they are also rather pricey.   Wherever he believed the taffy was no longer exists – but hey, he did find some kitchen equipment that appealed to his eyes.   We made our purchase and headed out to Valley Fair Mall.   I do remember having purchased candy there.   But that was seven years ago.   Before the pandemic. Neither Jaime nor I especially cared about the taffy.   It claims it ’ s made with the salt from the Great Salt Lake (which by the way has not been that great for a couple of decades now) I wondered if there was any lake left.   While at the food court, Richard saw what appeared like a bowling...

          The first location of Salt Lake's Equitable Life and Casualty was housed in the old Eagle's lodge building on 4th South and West Temple. According to this website Roderick Ross had established the company in said location in 1948.   The building itself did not seem the ideal for the insurance business - at least not with the Eagle's Lodge floor plan. Perhaps in the late 1940's it didn't matter that the building contained skinny stairs and a balcony, but it seemed quite inappropriate in the 1980s.           My dad had been hired as a computer programmer.   I think he used a different entrance to the building than the majority of workers.   On occasion I had opportunity to visit him at his place of work. As a child I remember seeing parts of what I believed to be the basement.   My dad worked with one those huge wall-to-wall computers   (or maybe several) th...