High West Distillery and Saloon - Park City, Utah

Spending two days in Park City was nice! COLD but nice. We took a tour of the High West Distillery and Saloon which was informative and entertaining. Here is a short history on the buildings which I thought warranted attention.

The National Garage / Livery Stable

The horseshoe in High West’s logo and on our bottle honors a shoe we found during renovation of the “National Garage” which was originally a livery stable to service the workhorses that pulled the heavy ore carts up and down to the mines. Master Carpenter Ellsworth J. Beggs rebuilt a smaller livery stable in 1907 for his “Beggs and Buckley Livery”. As automobiles became popular, the partners began servicing cars, changing the name to Beggs and Buckley Garage. Local sign painter Roy Fletcher painted the original National Garage sign. Later, when the business became the Sinclair Park Motor, Fletcher painted the sign as well. The garage business operated until 1942. When the Silver King Coalition Mines Company building burned down in 1981, the heat was so intense it melted the paint away from several layers of re-painted signs to what you can see today.