HERE IS HOW I REMEMBER KAYSVILLE, UTAH By Richard Riley Bushnell 2019
My name is Richard Bushnell. I am now 75 years old. I grew up in a small western North American town nestled between the beautiful Rocky Mountains and the Great Salt Lake. This corridor of land some 15 miles wide where several small towns sprung up from the early Mormon pioneers that settled the area in the mid and late 1800’s. This particular town called Kaysville, Utah was a farming community and a fast growing bedroom community for the businesses in Ogden (14 miles north) and Salt Lake City (23 miles to the south). The new Hill Field United States Air Force Base (3 miles to the north) was a major contributor to the growth of the community as well. The only highway ran through the center of Kaysville. The semi-trucks, buses and all manner of vehicles including farm tractors and wagons, and occasionally livestock, all used this main artery through the small towns. There were no traffic lights to stop the flow long enough to allow anyone to cross the highway. You had to wait for an opening in both directions in the traffic to make your move. Sometimes you would wait what seemed like 10 minutes to safely cross the highway. This was a two-lane highway (one lane in each direction).
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