Plus: Holiday travel over the upcoming Memorial Day weekend is projected to be the busiest since 2000
Good morning. Today’s temperatures: Logan: 50 - 77° 🌦️ | 60% 💧 | ⚠️ Salt Lake City: 60 - 83° 🌦️ | 40% 💧 | ⚠️ St. George: 63 - 91° 🌤️ ⚠️ Flood Watch In yesterday's newsletter I asked whether any of you had memories of Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI), the nation's first department store, opened right here in Utah in 1868 and sold in 1999. Here's what some of you said about what we're missing now that the store is no more: "The best part about the ZCMI store was always the Christmas decorations and the window displays. Our family would travel from our home in Sunset each weekend just to see the store and the displays. The smells, the people and the feeling that you were in a different place from all the other retail stores. It was almost magical." "When I was little, 1956 or so, my mom would take me with her shopping at ZCMI. I remember you had to dress up to go downtown. The thing I remember most was the candy counter. My mom would always buy the chocolate covered jellies, the round ones, or orange sticks." "When I was in college at USU I got my first credit card from ZCMI. My friends and I would go to the mall in Logan on Saturdays and always stop at ZCMI. Being from NYC I never heard of this department store." "I miss the windows displays at Christmas." Thank you for sharing your memories of a beloved institution from Utah's past. Now, let's look at some of the most important news in Utah today. Also on our mind: Bill Gates says that AI will kill off Amazon, Google and other jobs; this law lets Congress decide what you eat; and the Arizona Coyotes hockey team might relocate to Utah.
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| Memorial Day weekend travel to be extra busy this year |
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| | Holiday travel over the upcoming Memorial Day weekend is projected to to be one of the busiest since 2000, as the volume of holiday travel continues its rebound from historic lows during the pandemic. AAA Travel in partnership with S&P Global released an analysis last month that estimates over 42 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from their homes over the upcoming holiday, up 2.7 million from last year. And while both gas prices and airline fares are down from recent peaks, travel this Memorial Day weekend, regardless of chosen mode, is going to be significantly more expensive than before COVID-19 hit. Volumes on the peak days of travel — Thursday and Friday —for the Salt Lake airport are expected to be 26,000 and 27,000 passengers, respectively. |
Read more about what kind of traffic to expect during your Memorial Day travels and how inflation has affected travel costs. |
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