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Last Friday night, a tidy group of local newspaper professionals gathered at Junior's Tavern in Salt Lake City to pay tribute to Lance Gudmundsen, an old-timey news veteran who recently passed away.
So, with Anderson not in the frame—and few viable Salt Lake City mayoral candidates on any hill or horizon—is it too early to proclaim Mendenhall as "mayor for life" of this fair city?
Ute fans have traveled to Los Angeles for the Rose Bowl, where consecutive losses closed out each of those football seasons, leading to miserable winters of waiting till "next season."
All I remember about that era is that there wasn't much to downtown Salt Lake City at the time, lest we would not have been able to find a rentable space at around $300 per month.
The first thing I noticed were the hard-to-miss extraordinary fall colors we are experiencing this year. So, I took a ride up Butterfield Canyon this past weekend to take a look.
Hope you like us sharing some of our memories. I'm personally getting some good feedback, about as much as I could expect considering most of the people who were associated with the paper 40 years ago have died.