For those of you who didn't get this firsthand from my brother, I felt this was definitely worthy of the blog. So here it is, in Paul Slade's words.
All,
Last Monday, Coleman, Sydnie and I went on a tour of the old Park City Jail, under the museum on Main Street. The kids wanted to see where Grandpa Tom had to go to jail one day as a kid. The last time I was there was when Grandpa gave us all a tour several years ago. Well, the museum has changed since then. When you go in the basement where the jail cells are, they have added a hallway that goes behind the cells and opens into another basement room with mining artifacts – it’s very interesting.
Anywho, as I walked through this new hallway leading to the back, there were a couple of signs along the wall with stories of the jail in the early days (see “Jail Tales” photo attached). I started reading the first story and laughed at how familiar it was to Dad’s story as a boy – then I read who the quote was from (see “Curfew” photo attached) – “Tommy Neel”. Grandpa Tom is quoted on this sign and this is his story. Has anyone seen this before? I told the people at the museum that it was my dad, but I didn’t ask where or when they got that quote. I now have some detective work to do to find out how they got this quote.
So, Tommy Neel is known throughout the world as a “1930’s curfew violator” (there are worse things to be known for). Maybe that is why he gave his birth name instead of the Slade name – hah.
Love ya’ll,
Paul
Jail Tales
Curfew
In the Cell
