25 Monday Mar 2019
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Snowy Owl Benefit – Dumb and Dumber Filming Location
The Snowy Owl Benefit Scene from Dumb and Dumber (1994).
Harry and Lloyd pull up to a mansion for a Snowy Owl fundraiser in their colorful suits and cause trouble.
The exterior was filmed at the Devereaux House downtown Salt Lake City, Utah and the interior was filmed across the street from there at the Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot.
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24 Sunday Mar 2019
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Dumb and Dumber Filming Location: Airport Exterior
Airport Exterior Shots
The exterior airport scenes from Dumb and Dumber (1994).
Lloyd is dropping Mary off as she prepares to fly to Aspen from New England.
It was filmed at Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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23 Saturday Mar 2019
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Van Wagenen House
905 East Center Street
Constructed around 1900, this Victorian Box Style house features a classical columned porch and balcony. Since 1935, the home has been owned by members of the Van Wagenen family, including Alma Van Wagenen, Mayor of Provo in 1928-29 and Harold Van Wagenen, Mayor of Provo in 1956–57.
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21 Thursday Mar 2019
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Springville is named for the many springs, both in town and in the hills and mountains above it.
Mountain Springs is a set of 3 springs above Round Peak and near 3 Sisters. It’s a cool area, beautiful and steep hike and good water.
21 Thursday Mar 2019
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Camp Jeremiah Johnson is a scout camp in Hobble Creek Canyon.
21 Thursday Mar 2019
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20 Wednesday Mar 2019
Desert Star Theater
(*)Desert Star Theater is a dinner theater establishment in Murray, Utah. It started out as a small theater called the Gem, which showed silent movies with a piano for music. It was later closed down and demolished, but rebuilt and expanded into the Iris Theater by owner Tony Duvall. After his retirement, the Iris changed hands several times before being renamed the Vista.
The National Register of Historic Places, notes Iris Theater, Apartments and Commercial Building, built in 1930, is significant for its role in the urbanization of Murray City. With its combination of entertainment, retail, and residential space, the building represents an elaborate example of the multi-use commercial block common during the early twentieth-century development of the city’s commercial business district. The building was owned by the Duvall family who managed the theater while living in the apartments above the storefronts. The Iris building is also significant as the only commercial building in Murray built in the Art Deco style. Though not a particularly ornate example of the style, the building makes a distinctive contribution to the State Street frontage of the Murray Downtown Historic District. The building is in good condition and is a contributing historic resource of the city.
18 Monday Mar 2019
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Arrowhead Trail 1914-1924
Las Vegas promoters claimed to be the originators of this all-weather route between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. From the beginning, the Arrowhead Trail was a “grass roots” effort, including promotion by the various Chambers of Commerce and volunteer construction by local citizens. However, it was Charles H. Bigelow, from Los Angeles, who gave the trail publicity. During 1915 and 1916 he drove the entire route many times in his Twin-Six Packard he named “Cactus Kate.”
The trail, which extends near here, was built in 1915 and completed the section between St. Thomas and Las Vegas. In its day it denoted a milestone of progress.
Nevada State Historic Marker #168
18 Monday Mar 2019
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Nevada’s First State Park
This park, situated on the old Arrowhead Trail, was designated on March 26, 1935 as Boulder Dam-Valley of Fire State Park.
Though four state parks were established by concurrent legislation, Valley of Fire is considered Nevada’s first State Park as it was dedicated prematurely on Easter Sunday, 1934.
Thomas W. Miller of Reno (Overton-Caliente) led the move to establish Nevada’s State Park System. He was appointed in 1935 as the first Park Commission Chairman.
Recognized nationally for its outstanding scenic, geologic, and archeological features, 8,760 acres were patented to the State in 1931 as a State Exchange Grant.
Civilian Conservation Corp companies initiated park development in 1933.
Nevada State Historic Marker #150
18 Monday Mar 2019
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The Journey of the Dead Man
Early Spanish traders named the fifty-five dry miles separating Las Vegas and the Muddy River the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of the Dead Man). The longest stretch without water along the Old Spanish Trail was littered with the skeletons of animals and parts of wagons abandoned along the sandy desert. Most experienced travelers made the trip at night.
John C. Fremont crossed the Jornada in 1844 and commented: “We ate the barrel cactus and moistened our mouths with the acid if the sour dock. Hourly expecting to find water, we continued to press on to midnight, when after a hard and uninterrupted march of 16 hours, our wild mules began running ahead; and in a mile or two we came to a bold running stream (the Muddy River).”
Nevada State Historic Marker #139
