Utah Zoological Society was founded in 1911 inside Liberty Park. For the next twenty years, the small, unsophisticated location housed monkeys, birds, and elephant Princess Alice purchased from a traveling circus. But the location was subpar: Princess Alice escaped often, wandering down 700 East. In 1931 Mr. and Mrs. James Hogle donated 32 acres at…

Raymond Ashton was the vice president and general manager of the 1934 Modernization Exposition held in two floors of a large downtown building (previously the Knutsford hotel and leased from the Auerbach company for the show). The show was capitalized at $30,000, sponsored by the Modernization Committee of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce,…