Downtown Salt Lake City

Downtown Salt Lake City

Coordinates: 40°46′N 111°53.5′W / 40.767°N 111.8917°W / 40.767; -111.8917

Downtown is the oldest district in Salt Lake City. The grid from which the entire city is laid out originates at Temple Square, the location of the Salt Lake Temple.

Read more about Downtown Salt Lake City:  Location, History, City Creek Center, Crime

Famous quotes containing the words salt, lake and/or city:

    “Of all the flavors one eats, salt is indispensable; wherever one goes in the world, one’s mother is dearest.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone! None of your half-mile swamps, none of your mile-wide woods merely, as on the skirts of our towns, without hotels, only a dark mountain or a lake for guide-board and station, over ground much of it impassable in summer!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Blind Beggar: How do you know so much about city ordinances?
    Inspector Clouseau: What sort of stupid question is that? Are you blind?
    Blind Beggar: Yes.”
    —Blake Edwards (b. 1922)