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Every year on November 19th I think about Joe Hill who was wrongly convicted and subsequently executed at the prison in 1915. I have a question. Does anyone know the location of the blacksmith shop or the prison graveyard? I pretty much lived at sugar house park as a kid and never realized it had been a prison.

Duh. I thought this was all common knowledge.

Correction, 71% is COVERED by water

The Beach boys did a song Called "Salt Lake City "about lagoon. I grew up with the train and the coaster The white one and the carousel. The fun house and the pavilions, and the tilt a whirl and some of the other classic rides. The little cars that you would race around a track and a favorite ride where you sat in a huge bowl shape, and it was wooden, and you would feel the g force and be pulled to where your back would feel being pulled to the sides of the bowl shape. I remember being able to take the UTA bus there. I took my spouse there and we also rode the ski chairs. I have also been to the one in Ohio the well-known park there. I can't place the name at the moment. but yes, the white coaster was the first one I rode. I can never get enough of the tilt a whirl. one thing they don't ever mention is accommodations for persons with disabilities. it was in 1982 was the last time I was there

I started watching your videos during Covid and they have inspired me to go on adventures with my kids. I homeschool and share your videos with everyone I know. They are most excellent. I am now sitting here with my father. 78 and he grew up here. His father is a WWII Purple Heart recipient x2 We have some roots here. He had a stroke that has led to stage 7 dementia. It’s difficult for him to speak much and follow along in movies anymore. It’s been a challenge to find something that interests him and will keep his attention. But your videos have done this. He recognizes all of the places and it inspires him to talk I am so grateful to you!!! Thank you for following your passion and sharing it with us! I have something to connect with him through. He has a passion for travel too and it inspires me with my kids- thanks for adding to their education too Keep it up!

Went for the first time last August. Fell in love with the park instantly.

I knew the Freeds and worked with them in the Lagoon offices in Salt Lake City. My father worked with them too. I grew up at Lagoon and was babysat their as my father worked. It was a great place to be! I was SO spoiled! What great memories I have!

My prom was at Saltair in 1989 and I saw a number of shows out there in the 90's, the most memorable of which was probably Tool in 1994. Thanks for this series, I grew up in Utah and knew nothing of Saltair's history. Incidentally, I found your series via Carnaval of Souls.

71% of earth surface is water

Enjoyed your video. I had a friend who lived there in the early-mid 1960's. Interesting place then. Glad it's been saved from the developers.

Glenn Miller disappeared over the English channel in 1944, Lagoon couldn't have planned to have him play there after the war, unless you were referring to the orchestra that retained his name.

Lake Bonneville had huge massive Serpents.

I lived there and it was magical. I loved Amy Allen. She worked so hard to keep Allen Park viable.

Mormonism! That is how it stood the test of time. Throughout the 1980's, Lagoon held some Automobile Demolition Derbies. Those were some of the best wreck races ever.

I was researching this bit of history for an episode of my podcast where we talk about something from each US state (this season is crime and obviously this is for the Utah episode lol). This was super helpful, engaging, and informative! Keep up the good work!

When you are floating around in the lake---do not fart!!! If salt gets into the south end, it STINGS LIKE CRAZY!!!

Shout out to the people that fought to save this from developers. I grew up in the the area and at one point lived across the street from Allen park. And the last thing that tight area needs is more “development”

I grew up in SLC. Lagoon was a big part of my childhood in the 70s. Recently had a rash of Lagoon related videos show up in my youtube feed and I was telling my wife about this magical place. This video was a great source to show her the history of the park, and learn a lot myself that I didn't know. We left SLC in 1980 but my memories of summers at Lagoon remain some of the best from my childhood. Thanks for a little stroll down nostalgia lane!

Much respect for the Freed's, people today would slap "their" name on it.🤔

That last few minutes of how special lagoon is to you inspired me to take me kids for their first time yesterday. My family went to lagoon every year from when I was 8 till I graduated high school. I haven’t been in nearly 15 years. Thanks for reminding me of how special Lagoon is to me. So much nostalgia was had going through the parks with my kids. Would have never went back if it was for your video. Thank you for that ❤

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I need to add this, that globe atrocitie is absolutely Not what our world is and the Bonneville Salt Flats are merely added proof Earth is FLAT and STATIONARY. NASA RECOGNIZES THAT FACT IN THEIR DOCUMENTATION ONE JUST NEED MERELY TO SEEK IT OUT AND FIND IT.

I missed a turn on a trip to Bear Lake with my Sister and visiting friend from Belgium. I was on my motorcycle, it began raining on the trip North and I wasn't keen getting my new leather jacket wet so I gave it to my Sister in her car. Around the Logan turn off I'd gotten separated and missed the signs to turn off. I landed my ass in Red Rock Pass Idaho and I knew I was in a no bueno situation. I was running low on fuel. I turned back and found a gas station and got on the right route after using the maybe $3.65 in my pocket for gas. I ended up getting cold AF with another rainstorm and followed a semi as close as possible as a wind break and tucking in as close as possible to get heat from the air cooled engine on my '82 Honda Nighthawk 650. I finally landed in Bear Lake and found everyone. This was ling before the days of cell phones. It's a memorable trip. I've actually also been to Danger Cave which was also used to train bomber crews in preparation for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Thanks dude

Utah is home for me ❤

Utahs most popular amusement park??? It's the only one!!!

The The Great Saltair 3 is my 2nd home. Many of my best memories have been made there. I have worked there and atteneded many events. I love it there so much.

Incredible video! BeforeI looked I genuinely thought you would have had hundreds of thousands of subs and that this video was going to have hundreds of thousands of views!

For better or for worse, one thing at lagoon that is ALWAYS forgotten (both by park goers and locals) is the “zoo” haha. There is a tiny train track that is tucked away in the back and it loops through a “zoo,” although calling it that is pretty generous. There are some pretty cool animals, but their enclosures look absolutely abysmal. I know nothing about zoo keeping, but from the outside it definitely doesn’t seem humane. Especially because the only way to actually see them is on this little train, so nobody ever sees them or remembers that they’re there. Again, for better or for worse; if it was more well known or accessible it would either get shut down or built up, but also it’s something that we locals like to not think about

When i was a kid we lived in Kaysville, not far from Lagoon. It was a magical place for a 10 year old. So many picnics with KFC or homemade sandwiches with my family. Sadly, we moved out of state before i was tall enough to ride the big coasters. Seems silly, but its always been unfinished "bucket list" business for me to go back and ride those rides i was locked out of when i was not at least "this tall" [-------]. I'm 55 now and thise are still some of my best memories.

Very well down! I really enjoyed watching it.

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I first encountered Gilgal Garden in the irreverent little gem -Mondo Utah- written by whoever that crazy hippy was. I loaded my kids in the truck and traveled there from Dinosaur, Colorado (that little den of iniquity located on the fringe of the Zion Curtain). We were not disappointed. Aaaand it IS weird in a wonderful way. I'm glad to know it's still hidden away there, and I can encourage friends traveling through the area to search it out.

Or I imagine it’s your normal speaking voice, lol. It sounds so. Nice work!!

I like your voice, very good. Your tone, cadence, annunciation. You’re chill and sound like yourself.

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Me watching this after my shift at lagoon

Interesting story.

I’m a Utahn who’s since moved away, and lagoon will always hold a special place in my heart. I have many memories with my friends and family there, like looking out over the valley with people on the Ferris wheel. My favorite activity was riding the sky tram back and forth while enjoying lunch, laughing with the operators as they let us go round and round, since there’s never a line for it. Thanks for your video. It helped me show my partner some of my home.

I love it! Thanks for sharing! I am there now.

Great content and research! As one fellow Utahan it’s so cool to come to your channel and learn more about the state I was brought up in!

This whole series was great, thank you!

Lake Bonneville, and Lake Lahontan, and all the isolated, stranded, puddles of water in the Great Basin, were artifacts of the "flood" that washed over the American West, then very different from the landscape we know, today. Bonneville was not created by a diverted river, but by a wall of water that raced, at tsunami speeds, across the ancient shallow-sea bed once surrounding a polar location in southeastern Utah. The events of the ancient past (human scale, not rocks), not the archaic past, caused the water than had lain on what we call the Great Plains, today, to race westward, some being trapped in a nearly-400-mile-diameter inland sea that sat atop the Four Corners. That body of water sat there for the better part of two millennia, before it gouged a hole in the volcanic plug at the western end of the Grand Canyon, draining away in a matter of a few hundred years. When it was gone, the Anasazi left in search of greener pastures. The main body of water, though, sped past the narrow entry to eastern Utah, to flood across the Great Basin. This body ate at the blockages in the (modern-day) Colorado River channel, south of present-day Hoover Dam, splashing over the Transverse Mountains in California, to spill into the Coachella Valley, and some even found an outlet west of Palmdale, to dribble down into California's Big Valley, until water levels dropped too far to allow any more to cross the saddle there.

Not sure if anybody is mentioned this but Colossus has a twin in Germany I believe

I went to Highland HS and didn't even hear about the prison till i was in my 20's. Even though i used to "walk the yard" twice a day.. to and from school. Great video,Sir!

"when was the last time you went to an amusement park" last Saturday bc i work here.

Great work man, learned a ton.

Well put together. Clearly you love the park. Personally I think it’s become way overpriced for what it is. My wife and most of her family have worked there, and stories they have told me about Lagoon behind the scenes make it much easier for me to stay away. Why has it endured? A lack of competition. There are no other parks like this in Utah.

I did a lot of research on Lake Park in the past for an archaeology degree at Weber. That dance pavilion was a masterpiece. From what I remember, the majority of the structure was torn down to build the Bat ride, but the top portion of the cupula was preserved as the Rose terrace which still remains today. I would love to know if any of the original building was preserved, especially that circle which said “1886”. So satisfying to see that history explored here for the first time, very few people know about, great video.