Lone cyclist on the banked track at the old Salt Palace. USHS collections.
Bicycle Racing and the Salt Palace: Two Letters EDITED BY OLIVE W . B U R T
I HE ORIGINAL SALT PALACE, AT Ninth South between State and Main streets, was completed in 1898. It had taken three years and sixty thousand dollars to bring to reality this glittering architectural dream. Cloyd F. Woolley, a Denver advertising executive, died in 1956. Nine years earlier he had written the following two letters to me, his sister, reminiscing about the early days of Utah bicycle racing and the construction of the Salt Palace. Mrs. Burt, a Fellow of the U t a h State Historical Society, submitted this article shortly before her death in September 1981. It is published through the kind permission of her son, Robin Burt.
