Beneath the Wraps

  Can you remember the address of one of your childhood homes?             I lived at only one address for the majority of my life.   Just so happens the home where I spent my childhood is also the same as the one my mom had to leave when we put her in assisted living.   She, herself, had lived in that home for over 50 years.    As I mentioned in this post the streets in Salt Lake are numbered around the temple.   We lived in a non-incorporated area.   Our street number was 6850 South which apparently some neighbors knew as the name “ Twin Peaks Drive ” though I remember mom telling me she knew of only one family who addressed their mail with the “ Twin Peaks ” caption.   6850 is going to be so much easier to find than “ Twin Peaks ” .   Twenty or thirty years later we were incorporated into the city. New street signs were installed all over the neighborhood.   Our street was marked “ 6850 Sout...

I think most counties in Utah use a numbering system surrounding their “main street” I don’t actually know what the focal point is in Logan or Provo for example, but I do know that Temple Square is the central point in Salt Lake city and its surrounding areas.  Surrounding Temple Square are four streets called South Temple, West Temple, North Temple and Main Street.   Each street is numbered thereafter according to whatever direction – but starting in the three digits.       For example 1 st north is also 100 north.   I know, it’s confusing for those who don’t drive it everyday, but for those of us who live here, it is what it is. So if I grew up on 311 E 7980 S, I would be approximately 80 blocks south of the temple and a little over 3 blocks east. My mom grew up in San Francisco but still had family in Utah.   She used to feel sorry for children in Utah having to learn a difficult address like 2530 S 500...

          For those of us who are directionally challenged, the GPS is the best device ever!           Roland had won a GPS in a contest through his work.  It was about a week or two before we had gone to another state to see his family over a year ago.           Roland makes jokes that Jenna must have been injected with a phonographic needle when she’d receive her shots.  It took her a while before she started talking, but once she got it, she hasn’t shut up.. Jenna would start talking at the same time the GPS would vocalize directions.  Jenna became annoyed and said, “Gosh, she’s bossy!” This last time we had gone, I was fidgeting for something else but hit the GPS in error.  Roland looked at me rather puzzled and asked what the GPS had said.  “Go 108 miles and turn left”  Oh, thank you for the head...