The Alta Club

Utah · United States · Hotel

Members once lived in hotel rooms on the top floor. In the early fifties one of them fell asleep on his couch with a lit cigar. The soot is still on the.

The Alta Club in Salt Lake City is a private club, and its top floor once held hotel style rooms where members could live permanently.

In the early 1950s one member, who had lived there for years, fell asleep on his couch with a burning cigar in his hand.

The fire that followed left soot that can still be seen above the spot today, seventy years later, which is the most literal record of an event in this entire archive. Most sites offer a story. This one offers a mark on the ceiling.

A man who lived at his club rather than in a house, and who died there in his sleep in the room he had made his home, belongs to a way of life that had almost gone even then.

The club was founded in 1883 by Salt Lake's mining and business establishment and is still in operation. It is private and admission is by membership.

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Where is The Alta Club located?

The Alta Club is in Utah, United States.