25th Street Confidential: Drama, Decadence, and Dissipation Along Ogden's Rowdiest Road

by Val Holley

Book Overview

Generations of Ogdenites have grown up absorbing 25th Street's legends of corruption, menace, and depravity. The rest of Utah has tended to judge Ogden--known in its first century as a "gambling hell" and tenderloin, and in recent years as a degraded skid row--by the street's gaudy reputation. Present-day Ogden embraces the afterglow of 25th Street's decadence and successfully promotes it to tourists. In the same preservationist spirit as Denver's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160781269X
• ISBN13: 9781607812692
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher