Utah, 1950s

[@CarolWorth]

My 80-year-old heart still belongs to Utah. Having lived in Glendale (Hwy 89) in 1949, the memories will remain with me, forever. Beautiful State and beautiful industrious people! God Bless Utah. ❤

[@reececamptenmyers6063]

Yea utah's pretty nice. Been living here my whole life. People tend to be nice here

[@Idk-tb9kq]

Imagine how it felt like living there when Bundy was alive...

[@pencpa]

I moved to Salt Lake City in 1943, with my parents and younger sister. I moved to California in 1960, so I only lived inSLC for 17 of my 85 years. Yet, I am always excited during our all too infrequent visits, and when I meet someone from Salt Lake.

[@jordynsimmons1107]

were you racist

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@Black Recluse in Utah, a mixed bag. Again, the majority of crowd (40 percent at worst, to 80 percent at best) were non racist depending on the location in America. Its a major lie for people to continuously state that the era was filled to the brim with racism when dare I say it wasn't even filled half way. That era is something special, you can't predict an era..no matter the information you think you have on it, like the car colors, I bet you weren't expecting the ones shown in this video..or the completely normal crowd walking around in elegant period wear.

[@motoralex4878]

I’m an 18 year old teen living in Utah and a vintage car lover and watching this is just so awesome it’s like going back in time

[@tinplater]

Born raised in Logan 1943. Cache Valley remains a gorgeous spot April to October. Love vintage film; remembering SLC with its trolley's, ZCMI, taffy pull machine, eagle arch, Hotel Utah aquarium.

[@DangerousDevilOfficial]

Thank you for showing this all restored. I appreciate seeing my home state during this period.

[@rjay7019]

First and only time I went skiing was at Alta. I just wasn't cut out for it. But I miss those Wasatch Mountains ❤ My husband's Grandfather was in The Mormon Battalion, his cabin still stands in the park on Main Street in Delta. He was the first Postmaster.

[@speeddemon0882]

Thank You for posting this. It's hard to find archived footage of The Beehive State. Such a treat to watch and see how it was in the old times.

[@JoanCouncil]

Nothing like that now. Stack and pacs everywhere with ugly architecture. Print the mormon pioneers back

[@samrobinson9091]

Fantastic video to showcase just some of Utah’s beauty!

[@hearttoheart4me]

The "C" @10:43 is above my home town of Magna. The building below is the power plant for Kennecott Mine. It has been decommissioned and tore down soon. The C is for Cyprus High School.

[@m.e.9974]

Good stuff...Utah is a wonderful State.

[@abrahambankhead2968]

I love my beautiful state.

[@MrAvs-fk6in]

Same

[@irv7605]

California is better

[@Kalash74]

@@irv7605 lmao it 100% isnt its way worse

[@Kalash74]

@O.G Autistler no thx, in the uk many people from those countries live here which increased the crime rate and amount of litter

[@robpolaris7272]

My Danish ancestor (Peter Madsen) joined the LDS church and moved to Provo by 1848. He was a fisherman and was pivotal in getting enough fish to feed the city that winter since the locusts wiped out the crops all the way up to SLC. My Grandmother was born in Provo in 1920 and told me the story as a kid. I later found a more detailed depiction in Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah along with my ancestors photos late in his life.

[@Whateverintheworld]

Bingham no longer exists. That town is now part of the mine.

[@Laudavisti]

I was just wondering why I had never heard of it and mom had to give me the bad news 😞

[@dransnake]

Oh I just assumed it was 1950s Bingham City, I had no idea there was a whole other Bingham. Would explain why the "city" part was left out. That's so wild EDIT: I JUST REALIZED I MIXED UP BRIGHAM CITY WITH BINGHAM I'M SO SILLY

[@Whateverintheworld]

@@Laudavisti😢

[@Whateverintheworld]

@@dransnake😢

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

Tabernacle is such a marvelous building, used to be a soft shade of iridescent silver. Then transitioned quickly into a more pewter color thanks to oxidization.

[@Jr837_]

no idea why this showed in my recommended, but i'm not complaining

[@hearttoheart4me]

I live in Murray in Salt Lake valley. I used to love it but now is growing so fast.

[@DaddyDuckTown]

West coasters are ruining the state

[@VOLK________]

@@DaddyDuckTown then leave

[@KidRocker44]

"No modern device will ever take the place of the 1000's of ponies." 40 to 50 years later all the cattle and sheep herders that I know here in Utah mostly use 4-Wheelers to herd with instead of horses.

[@ezra5629]

Yeah there's still some still herding on horseback the true cowboy county now is probably Wyoming and Montana

[@proyung2955]

the music is so nostalgic. makes me think about the flintstones and that space ship cartoon

[@nathanaronsohn8665]

The Jettsons

[@thepinkyprincesspoetc.a.5767]

Old filmstrips in high school

[@vickigermino9175]

@@nathanaronsohn8665yes

[@cornhuskerejt]

Thank you for posting this video. I used to live in Salt Lake. This video is very interesting.

[@BestEachDay]

Utah is still a great place. It's still fairly conservative, for which I'm grateful. I like the values. But, for those with decades old memories of the state, don't let your bubble get burst. Utah isn't an island. It's changed dramatically over the decades. It's grown exceptionally and continues to grow rapidly. Lots of good things have happened here. But not everything. We are also plagued in one degree or another by the same kinds of problems you will find just about anywhere. We're not necessarily some piece of paradise in a world of trouble, unfortunately.

[@zelphx]

R.I.P. Bingham, UT

[@cutthroat399]

The Geneva steel plant fucked up Utah Lake with heavy metals contamination.

[@thepinkyprincesspoetc.a.5767]

And raw sewage

[@davidlee3138]

Ogden here cool seeing this old movie lol

[@bsff269]

David LEE right!??? Everyone seemed so clean and all walking together in the town!

[@robbiesharp311]

Murder capitol of Utah

[@m3po22]

It would be so cool if Utah was a real place

[@jenniferlopezsantiesteban5209]

I love Utah and would NEVER change it for another state ❤️

[@reececamptenmyers6063]

Yea dude, pretty cool here. Been living here my whole life.

[@hearttoheart4me]

To bad other states residents, especially west coasters are ruining it for us native Utahns by moving here. I was born and raised in SLC but had to leave. Still in Utah though. Being older I will probably die here too.

[@joejacko1587]

i moved out in 2011 after hearing about the price of housing from family i am glad i did

[@stupidamericancheese2328]

Utah has my heart ♥️ good ole Rose park

[@bsff269]

Learned more than I knew my whole life living here.

[@strydersmith5758]

This is amazing!!

[@Just_Vryatt]

I was just curious about Utah and that led me to this video, unfortunately the historic buildings are far far older than anyone is willing to admit, as well there is much more of the building below the sediment, the Salt Lake City Mormon temple and many other buildings shown here have more floors that have been hidden underneath the surface, buried in mud and covered with concrete. Evidence of this is in the photos of construction of the Mormon temple in Salt Lake City, the bottom half or more of the buildings having been dug out and photographed only to be intentionally buried again, leaving only the top couple floors to be revealed to those unknowing.

[@whatifdoe4674]

Watch jon levi

[@alex1701waller]

@@whatifdoe4674 she does

[@JPumpkinKing]

You couldn't be more wrong on your history and how old the buildings are and what is below them. I've been in those buildings and in the tunnels. They ARE as old as they say they are, and there is ONLY about 1-2 levels below. Basically basements and dressing rooms.

[@nataliekay286]

I don't think you know what you are talking about. Bless your ❤

[@JanakTiwariKing]

Awesome place it used to be it seems... No longer the same. Still, it is beautiful.

[@utahcoasterenthusiasts]

They forgot to include Saltair in this video!

[@joejacko1587]

the saltair shut down in the 50's

[@rjay7019]

​@@joejacko1587The original building did. The new one was never used like the old one though.

[@BoMwarriorVlog]

3:15 Oh WOW! 😯 Despite growing up in St. George, I keep forgetting when the growth actually really started. (it wasn't till about the late 1970s that StG's population surpassed Cedar City!)

[@davidalanjonesridge9874]

And for many many years places from National Parks in Utah were featured on/in Union Pacific Railroad calendars. Also, Utah and Mormonism figures in half of the story/plot of the very first Sherlock Holmes story, "A study in Scarlet" by Sir Author Conan Doyle.

[@redcurrantart]

‘And the filings are now dumped in the slag pile.’ Yeah... that now called ‘Day Break’ kids. Don’t we all want to live on that poisonous refuse dump? Great place for a housing development.

[@shaunasugar]

Most of my maternal ancestors are from Utah. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the people in this video was a relative. Lol My great grandfather was Sydney B Sperry. I’m also related to the Irish pioneer John Steele, and even to Joseph Smith (yes, _that_ one). My relatives also cofounded Parowan and Paragonah in southern Utah. I’ve got ancestry all over the state and it feels like I can’t escape it sometimes. 😅

[@kourage29]

Never heard of Utah being called "🌈 Rainbow land 🌈" before . Some really cool stuff in this video. And I've been raised in Utah .

[@russellmitchell6592]

The Rainbow Trout was the State Fish (changed in late 1990's), and Rainbow bridge, accessible through Lake Powell is in Utah. Between Bryce Canyon, Zion National Park, Capital Reef, Arches - there are a lot of colors, like rainbows.

[@j.c.3386]

Southern Utah is known as Color Country

[@Mr61941]

Unfortunately greedy developers are destroying our beautiful Utah.

[@latter-dayfilmguy1382]

Holy cow, look how isolated the St. George Temple was. 😮

[@MrMfloor]

My Greek relatives in early 1900s acquired land in Alta and park city and found silver mines. Let’s just say their grandchildren are filthy rich now

[@fromthesidelines]

I believe the film's title was "Utah- The Rainbow Land" (the end title stresses the "rainbow" aspect).

[@charliedawson8509]

Non-Mormon Utahn right here.

[@shailys.k.y4090]

Same. And im literally related to brigham young

[@yeboscrebo4451]

Well try not to ruin things

[@davidsilvarz]

@@yeboscrebo4451you first

[@carsbud4]

Sinner

[@davidsilvarz]

@@carsbud4 your mother

[@blsi4037]

Any one here descended from the Mormon pioneers?

[@GaMeBoYDaN1]

Bl SI yep :)

[@blsi4037]

@@GaMeBoYDaN1 If you don't mind, may to tell me about your family history? Thanks!

[@kellernine279]

I am

[@rynoitch6982]

Yep. I spent the first 43.5 yrs of my life in the Salt Lake Valley. We moved 2 yrs ago to Austin, Tx. We’re so glad we’re moving back to UT in 2 weeks. This time, we’re moving to St. George. Home prices went through the roof in Salt Lake after we left. My wife is sick of the cold weather up north. I still want to move back up north one day.

[@C.Noble13]

I feel Utah history is a lie !

[@yokurt8626]

3.5million for a church 40 years to build, almost same situation here in europe you need to work 40 years and a half a million to get own house

[@magdalenaluna563]

How’s it’s just an over priced housing market

[@robertmoir5695]

I was n t around in the 1950s Things have sure changed have n t they Too much has changed in fact

[@Kris_Anderson]

Who else is representing Richfield in here? Sevier County? Anyone ... anyone?

[@rachidmasimov4132]

Just curious, what life was like for non-Mormon Americans (OK, the whites) in Utah back then? In terms of setting, opening business etc.? Was there any hidden discrimination? It's understandable they'd be a minority thus had to deal with certain social disadvantages.

[@rachidmasimov4132]

I meant to say settling, sorry for a typo. It'd be interesting to learn a bit more about their social anthropology history, thanks

[@rjay7019]

It was definitely hard to fit in as a kid. I grew up there and non Mormon. For the most part people are nice, they just never let you forget you don't belong.

[@chrisfrederickson5109]

I grew up in Utah since the age of six, the year would be approximately 1960. Our neighborhood was a mix of Mormon's and other denominations. We ALL were friendly and the adults watched over everyone's children playing outdoors. Moving onto High School I had good close friends not All Mormons. We treated everyone respectfully. Only had two Black families in Granger High School. One of the Black families son was very popular and loved. Very good athlete too. Now in 2024 the greedy builders in my opinion have reuined our beautiful Salt Lake City with ill thought out placements of High Rise Apartment Buildings. Took away all our beautiful views. SL City started out with beautiful wide streets downtown. Hope this answers a few of your questions.😮

[@kosycat1]

Utah flexin hard in the comments! =] sike I love salt lake city. best pow ever!

[@jonnym4670]

its so empty no houses on the hills

[@fatimacabuenas2797]

Unsa man ni cmbahan?

[@FreshKiddsTV]

I’ve never been to Salt Lake City 🇺🇸

[@tyelerhewitt7603]

The LDS do have a heavy prevalence in Utah. However, I am a 29 year old born and raised Utahn with a not so traditional upbringing. Baptized at 9 and celebrated my baptism by fire at 10… I grew up to acknowledge the church’s lack of individuality, and the abhorrence they teach. All of that combined, I am still proud to call myself a Utahn. Without the LDS leadership, this state would be something else entirely. The land would be the same, but the culture…. Hell who am I kidding….

[@johnschneider4160]

🎶..."and , baby, look at us now!"🙄

[@michaellinner7772]

Calling Utah the rainbow land is somewhat comical. You need rain to get a rainbow.

[@davidalanjonesridge9874]

Not if it is because of the rock formation.

[@ohsweet1397]

2019 anyone?

[@firewall8047]

2020 in a few hours

[@lautarocoria136]

More like 2020

[@moldy_banana5015]

Nah

[@hearttoheart4me]

2021

[@thepinkyprincesspoetc.a.5767]

11/21

[@jillsmcfarland2001]

Rainbow land ?

[@yeboscrebo4451]

Utah has been my favorite state to live in by far. Its going down the toilet just like every other place though. Greed, opulence, “diversity”, entitlement, feminism, collectivism is creeping in like cancer.

[@alex1701waller]

Yep. Every larger city is a hell hole now

[@CatsRock11000]

@@alex1701waller for real used to be real nice sad to see it go down hill

[@justinrichards7822]

Diversity and feminism are cancerous? I bet you're a gem of a person, super fun at parties..

[@yeboscrebo4451]

@@justinrichards7822 yes, they are.

[@azhurelpigeon]

Go move to Russia or the Middle East if you want to live somewhere without diversity & progressivism

[@DangerousDevilOfficial]

Who actually owns the copyright to this film? It seems like some type of government tourism video of the time. And government films or photography are generally open to fair use to everyone under copyright law….

[@kingalex-xw7kv]

10:47 where’s that letter c

[@Thatoneladywhodoesnotcare]

Magna

[@kingalex-xw7kv]

@@Thatoneladywhodoesnotcare that letter old

[@kingalex-xw7kv]

What does the letter mean?

[@hearttoheart4me]

@@kingalex-xw7kv It's above the town of Magna in the west side of Salt Lake Valley. The "C" is for the high school. Cyprus. Still there and get lit up on occasion.

[@dominicbarsi1169]

Not one car in this film is 1950 or younger. This is late '40's...

[@yongary01]

Funny stuff

[@xaviSF]

You cant forgot the kicking out of the natives from the valley to the reservations.

[@Ponk-me8um]

That happened literally all over the West. At least they weren't kicked out of the state to Oklahoma, like what happened to eastern tribes.

[@birdcage2425]

Its kind of hard to forget, considering you harpies never shut up about it. The Indians lost the war. Fortunately, the white man is very compassionate to their defeated foes and let them keep some land and some of their customs.

[@colbydrake7048]

Us native Americans get quite a bit of stuff for free or a small fee which most folks don't know

[@Rattus-Norvegicus]

@@colbydrake7048 Was it worth the trade?

[@stellablue4153]

It makes me so sad and a little sick to watch this in 2023 and know what developers and progress"have done to destroy and ruin this beautiful state. An ugly, polluted shell of what it once was.

[@thee_undertaker]

I keep seeing things and looking up jobs in them. They no longer exist

[@motokev2727]

Used to be nice, but no longer.

[@gametimewithjamie]

God so beautiful

[@Z3nHolEminD]

The Mormons got to Utah in 1847 < when this video was filmed that is hardly old < heck 1 god day is 1,000 human years

[@ernestorodriguez8367]

Este es el estado sagrado que Dios Jehová salvo de un terremoto en el 2019 que si no interviene sería totalmente apartado del sistema pero el altísimo todopoderoso el único creador del centro del universo intervino porque así fue la promesa con nuestros hermanos y mi segunda casa segunda reencarnación de ciudadanía Cómo mexicano ciudadano americano nativo americano y hasta el día de hoy Dios ha protegido lo escrito está escrito Cómo bendiciones del altísimo y de todo el mundo entero

[@robbiesharp311]

Midvale rules!

[@MatthewFloor]

Make Utah Christian for once!

[@MatthewFloor]

Trump 2024

[@Sennmut]

Sounds like a Mormon propaganda piece.

[@bob1152]

It's the Mormon capital. What do you expect?

[@huntersmith8586]

Sennmut no. We Mormons are just that great. We built the intermountain west.

[@Oldbookwonders]

Sennmut it is. Should probably not go to Utah. It’s not amazingly beautiful or anything.

[@ericcartman5552]

@@GaMeBoYDaN1 #deznat

[@richardholmes5676]

I don't think the above video is a Mormon production. It certainly ain't from the anti-Mormon cult.

[@hitorytime681]

Im

[@jamesmcintyre94]

#NoMoreMormonsMovement

[@GaMeBoYDaN1]

James McIntyre not very nice bro. Try to be a but more respectful

[@passport3763]

Dan Palmer Don’t listen to people like James, they’re just hateful.

[@xaviSF]

No more theocracy !!!!!!

[@BOZMOO]

Damn mormans man 😂 some nasty cult shit

[@elderbroomhead2671]

Still got your persecution complex, huh?

[@mikdoubol7727]

utah is great. to many freaking mormons tho

[@hearttoheart4me]

You think that being the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints might have something to do with having so many. 😮

[@JoanCouncil]

It was lovely before they left. Its less than 50 % now I heard. The rest will be gone sometime to return to the Midwest. Then everyone will want to go there because they take care of their things and places. The non mormons run it now. With mitt Romney the sell out

[@DerGlaetze]

Gee. You’re not giving any credit to the Mormons for helping to make it “great”?😎

[@zelphx]

R.I.P. Bingham, UT

[@danihellz]

I was wondering where that town was 😔

[@JoanCouncil]

I misz that canyon.. it was a blast when i was a kid to run around at