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| The halls at Trolley Square eerily empty, kind of spooky a little creepy. |
I've written about “Kid
Day” before in this blog. I haven't gone back to research about
exactly what I've written about but in short Kid Day were those
Saturdays that I would go over and pick up my kids for a Saturday
out. For the most part there is myself and four kids: my two and my
ex's two she hatched out after she remarried. We count them as family
because they are family and we're altogether on the Saturdays when we
would go out drive around Salt Lake City try to find out the least
expensive ways to have fun but more than anything else just enjoy
ourselves being together. We did this for a number of years back in
the 80s before life changed so much that it was no longer a doable
function. However, today was a throwback to those days
Mark and Shelley and the
two girls Brisa and Riley all piled together in the wheelchair van
and we took off for Trolley Square. Trolley Square was one of the
main hangouts for us in the early days. Not only was it an enclosed
environment but it had a decent food court in a videogame arcade
where everyone could find something to do and somewhat enjoyable. As
the name indicates Trolley was manufactured from the old trolley
Barnes and salt lakes day of trolley cars. The places catacomb with
walkways and cobbled stone paths with shops everywhere at least it
used to be that way however now it seems to have been going through a
slow death saddens that is I don't know why. I don't think it's
because of its elitist attitude though that cannot be helpful. There
are a lot of great shops or were great shops in the facility but
they've all disappeared it seems.
I could tell we were
making managers of the different shops that we went into nervous.
When shopping particular we all love was a place called Tabula Rosa
just as the name says it's a stationary shop and so much more. Very
high end pens, inks , custom paper products lots of journals and
tablets of all kinds – – the old kind, things you have to write
in with the pen aand ink. Beautiful things that you give the people
who work for you 20 years or more when you're very serious on setting
them on their way with a real momen of how appreciated the retired
workersservice. I twisted their floor covering when I was turning
around in the chair and bunched up the floor covering and I thought
the owner was going to faint. I got out of there as quick as I could
without endangering anything else. The food courts are gone as is the
arcade. Mark thinks possibly the problem is that a number of years
ago maybe 20 now there was a mass shooting at trolley Square. I don't
remember how many people were assassinated but people say that that
was the end of trolley Square. It said that trolley never rebounded
from the stain that left on the facility. I don't know if I buy that
but I don't know what else to think. The trolley is picturesque will
service by street traffic as well as the light rail. Trolley still
has some good restaurants and venues for concerts and other sources
of entertainment. It was fun showing the girls were released to go on
kid Day and explain them what we did and how we enjoyed this
facility. They did a good job of entertaining the adults as we roamed
around searching for pieces of our lost past in days when a great
afternoon was just hanging out hitting the different shops and
trolley Square.
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