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25th Street Confidential: Drama, Decadence, and Dissipation along Ogden's Rowdiest Road
Val Holley
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Description for 25th Street Confidential: Drama, Decadence, and Dissipation along Ogden's Rowdiest Road
Paperback. Traces Ogden's transformation from quiet hamlet to chaotic transcontinental railroad junction as waves of non-Mormon fortune seekers swelled the city's population. The street's outsized role in Ogden annals illuminates larger themes in Utah and US history. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 526.
Generations of Ogdenites have grown up absorbing 25th Street’s legends of corruption, menace, and depravity. The rest of Utah has tended to judge Ogden—known in its first century as a “gambling hell” and tenderloin, and in recent years as a degraded skid row—by the street’s gaudy reputation. Present-day Ogden embraces the afterglow of 25th Street’s decadence and successfully promotes it to tourists. In the same preservationist spirit as Denver’s Larimer Square, today’s 25th Street is home to art galleries, fine dining, live theatre, street festivals, mixed-use condominiums, and the Utah State Railroad Museum.
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Generations of Ogdenites have grown up absorbing 25th Street’s legends of corruption, menace, and depravity. The rest of Utah has tended to judge Ogden—known in its first century as a “gambling hell” and tenderloin, and in recent years as a degraded skid row—by the street’s gaudy reputation. Present-day Ogden embraces the afterglow of 25th Street’s decadence and successfully promotes it to tourists. In the same preservationist spirit as Denver’s Larimer Square, today’s 25th Street is home to art galleries, fine dining, live theatre, street festivals, mixed-use condominiums, and the Utah State Railroad Museum.
25th Street Confidential traces Ogden’s transformation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607812692
SKU
V9781607812692
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About Val Holley
Val Holley is a native of Weber County, Utah, attended Weber State College, and received a BA in journalism from BYU, a JD from the University of Utah, and an MLS from the Catholic University of America. For three decades he has been a law librarian and an independent historian in Washington, DC. He is the author of James Dean: ... Read more
Reviews for 25th Street Confidential: Drama, Decadence, and Dissipation along Ogden's Rowdiest Road
“Captures the sense of the street and its vitality. A significant contribution to the history of one of Utah’s most important cities.”—John Sillito, coeditor of A World We Thought We Knew: Readings in Utah History (The University of Utah Press, 1995) “Holley presents a history of Twenty-fifth Street just as compelling as the legends. The book lives up to its ... Read more