Out of the Mouths of Babes ...

Mark Jolley

After nearly 40 years of living in Park City, Mark Jolley finally moved his family to Coalville. He owns a custom wood flooring business. Mark is the son of Blaine Jolley, a Park City miner who was tragically killed in the Spiro Mine tunnel when Mark was only 6 years old. Changes in Park City? “It seems like everything has been sold three or four times and you don’t know anybody when you walk into the post office.” Favorite Park City memories: “Ernie Scow and his demolition derbies; the high school dummy burns and the human snake where the night before our Homecoming game, the entire high school student body would hold hands and run down Park Avenue to City Park; the 21-salute dynamite blast at 7:00 a.m. on the Fourth of July and Miners Day; and the winter of 1972 when they called in the National Guard because we had so much snow no one could get out of their houses!” Mark still can’t believe how glitzy and upscale Park City has become. “I think that the opening of Deer Valley was the turning point.”

Shelley Martinez (Flinders)

Shelley Flinders was the Homecoming Queen and truly the golden girl in high school. Shelley says she’s still trying to become a local because when she tells people she’s from Park City, husband Tom corrects her by saying she’s actually from Snyderville! “There were a total of ten houses out there when I was growing up. And nobody even knew where Park City was! Now you go to New York and everyone knows Park City.” Today, Shelley manages a convenience/retail store that she’s been working at for nearly 25 years. She and Tom have also raised three kids. Favorite high school memory? “Going to football games out of town and laughing at the way Park City’s team had players with hair hanging out the backs of their helmets, while all the other teams had buzz-military cuts!” The thing she misses most about old Park City: “I miss the fact that they haul all the snow off the streets. When the snow banks were high and people had to dig tunnels to get out of their houses, it felt like winter to me. Now it doesn’t.” When Lodestar came out she remembers thinking. “How could little Park City be big enough for a magazine?”

Tom Martinez

In the mid-’70s at Park City High, Tom Martinez was the “hot guy.” Tom and Shelley Flinders became a couple in sixth grade. They are still together today. Tom is a metal and bronze artisan who also plays drums in a band that he started back in high school (now called “Block and Tackle”). Tom’s fondest memories from high school include his band playing at every dance and even though he says they were terrible, he laughs and says that nobody knew the difference. Tom also remembers the Lodestar’s debut. “I’m glad that it’s still here … the Red Banjo, the Egyptian Theatre … they’re all fixtures from the past that I hope will stay.” Tom says that while he moved his family to the Heber Valley a few years ago, he has never found a better place to live. “I miss all the old locals, seeing them, knowing everyone that you saw. These days I drive up Main Street and I might as well be in Aspen. I don’t know anyone.”

Brian and Mindy Krall

Brian and Mindy (Beck) Krall have “lived here since I was a 1-year-old, and Brian moved to Park City from Roy, Utah during our sophomore year,” says Mindy. “My first date with Brian was the junior prom and we’ve pretty much been together ever since. After graduation, we both started school at the University of Utah, but missed Park City too much. We got married and started working right away.

We have two daughters. Brian used to run the school crosswalks, until I took over the job, and now he works as a landscaper. I’m the Director of the Clubhouse Childcare, which has centers on Lower Main Street and Silver Mountain Sports Club.” Changes in town? “Everyone talks about the recent surge of growth, but in my mind, Park City has always been growing. I remember when the Alpha Beta [supermarket] became Albertson’s, and I was stoked when we got a McDonald’s! For me, the biggest change has been how expensive town got. Real Park City folks can’t afford to live here anymore, which is so sad. Brian and I recently moved to Heber, because we can’t afford even a modest home here. We stayed because our families and friends are here. We don’t really have any reason to leave, and I love the real, true Park City locals.”

Erin Grady

Erin Grady has lived in Park City for 25 years. After graduation, she “moved to Salt Lake and attended the University of Utah, where I studied mass communications with an emphasis on public relations. I am now married, have two dogs, and work as the Communications Manager for Deer Valley Resort. It’s an awesome job; I love it. The biggest change in Park City is the growth both in and around town. Also, that Park City’s shoulder seasons are becoming shorter and shorter. I do plan to stick around, because I love it here. Utah has so much to offer, from the mountains to the desert. I just love the lifestyle.”

Max Doilney

Max Doilney has lived in Park City “pretty much my whole life, with the exception of 1995 to 2003. I actually spent my last two years of high school at Roland Hall [a private school in Salt Lake.] After graduation, I headed to Montana and spent several years alternating between world travel and school. I studied education, sociology and Native American studies. Now, I own The Corner Store Bar & Restaurant at Park City Mountain Resort. My dad, aunt and uncle started The Corner Store in 1974, and it changed hands many times before I bought it in the spring of 2004.” Changes he’s seen in town? “There are a helluva lot more people here now. When I was a kid, Park Meadows was the outskirts of town, and now it’s considered the center. Also, the whole community development at [Kimball] Junction is a huge change. I will definitely have something to do with Park City for a long time. It will always be home, but I’m not sure I’ll always live here. I’ll have to live near the beach at some point.”