Inkslingerthe King’S English Review of Books Summer Issue 2021 801-484-9100 Good Readers Make Great Neighbors up and Down the Block at 15Th & 15Th
THE 1511 South 1500 East Salt Lake City, UT 84105 InkslingerThe King’s English Review of Books Summer Issue 2021 801-484-9100 Good Readers Make Great Neighbors Up and Down the Block at 15th & 15th When The King’s English first opened its doors at 15th & 15th in we bought the building, and a friend started Afterwords, a small 1977, the street was full of small, locally owned businesses, it’s true, restaurant, in the back (upstairs) half. It was popular (we still talk but its look and feel were far different than in 2021. On the east side about their pot roast), and more and more people were in and out of of 15th there were, in adjoining spaces, a beauty parlor and barber all three businesses. Before long, a bakery, Tea and Trumpets, opened shop that had been perming and clipping their clientele in the style its doors and was an instant success. of another era for years, a gas station, a Realtor, a small drug store And so it went at 15th & 15th, one new business after another open- circa 1950. On the west side of the street, straight across from the gas ing until the drug stores had been replaced by an audio shop (this station, there was another small drug store, a laundromat, another was in the day of stereos and turntables) and another Realtor respec- beauty salon from a more recent era, and a small, family-owned tively; a gift store opened in the space the laundromat had occupied; grocery store. an amazing bagel shop, Brackman Brothers, for which people lined The King’s English Bookshop struggled at first but as it slowly picked up down the length of the block on weekends, replaced the grocery up more customers, Smokey’s, a record store, moved in next door.
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