Saltair - View from the "The Racer" roller coaster - Great Salt Lake, Utah

For more info on Saltair:
www.geocities.com/gnav990/saltair.html

This card is probably from the early to mid 1950's.

The rear of this postcard reads:

Saltair
Great Salt Lake, Utah
Located on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, one of the world's wonders, Saltair is 15 miles west of Salt Lake CIty. Built on thousands of piles and extending out into the lake, it offers a fine amusment park and picnicking facilities, lunch and refreshment stands, one of the largest unobstructed dance floors in the world and bathing in the briny waters of the Great Salt Lake where you "float like a cork."

Nothing is left. This coaster was destroyed by wing gusts on August 29, 1957 (it was not opperating at the time due to the bad weather). What was left of Saltair was destroyed by a fire in the 1970's. There is a newer building built on the site now, but is not much more than a large building that occasionally holds concerts.

Taken on: April 23, 2009

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