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.