Salt Lake City, UTAH - Hotel Utah - 1937 - ADVERTISING

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Salt Lake City, UTAH - Hotel Utah - 1937 - ADVERTISING: It is one of the most recognizable buildings in Salt Lake City and this June, the historic Hotel Utah will celebrate its 100th anniversary. This beautiful landmark opened its doors on June 9, 1911, and served as the hotel in Salt Lake City for the next 76 years. Closed in 1987, it reopened in 1993 as The Joseph Smith Memorial Building after extensive redesign and restoration. Over the years, the Hotel Utah/Joseph Smith Memorial Building has served as a gathering place for national and international visitors alike. Called “the Hotel” by locals and travelers, this ten-story white building hosted legislators, Latter-day Saint conference-goers, conventioneers, visitors, skiers, and every U.S. president William Howard Taft in 1912 to Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. The hotel hosted famous visitors from around the world: Jimmy Stewart, Lowell Thomas, Katherine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Van Cliburn, Helen Hayes, Harrison Salisbury, Liberace, Warren Burger, John Glenn, and Ella Fitzgerald, to name but a few. Currently, the building welcomes the public to its three restaurants and multiple banquet rooms, as well as providing office space for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As part of the building’s centennial celebration, please share your memories here —perhaps as a hotel guest, a former employee, or a visitor to the famed Roof Restaurant. You can also share photos, whether it is of a high school dance, wedding reception, or corporate event. Other centennial celebrations are being planned for the building in June; further details about those events will be forthcoming. This Linen Era postcard, published in 1937, is in good condition. Genuine Curteich-Chicago "CT Art Colortone" No. 7A-H3690.