Posted on 09/10/2021 8:47:41 AM PDT by lurk
It's 10:30pm two days before 9/11. I'm getting home after a 3 week whirlwind trip to mid America. This airport, Salt Lake City, is a brightly lit aorta of activity with thousands and thousands of people coming, going, jamming the bright new shops, pubs and restaurants. Perhaps they are getting vital calories to endure the insanely long walk from the front curb to the B gates.
Masks and distancing? Yes, but they come off and stay off at the drinking hole. Shop closures? Not here; it's hopping 24/7.
Such a contrast to the dark and quiet rows of shops in Chicago Midway, Lambert St Louis, MCI in KC, even Sky Harbor PHX. Strap barriers block entry, chairs are upside down on the tables, lights are off. Like Stephen King's empty airport movie. Even the shoe shine stand sits idle.
This is not the virus. This is political. This is East Berlin/West Berlin. This is the territorial boundary markers of local fiefdoms. This is freedom v suffocation. This is world views, on display. This is liberty or death.
” Shop closures? Not here; it’s hopping 24/7.”
Shops don’t open till 9 AM !
Are there laws that prevent serving liquor after 1 am? And beer can be no stronger than 2%? At least this was true there in the mid 1989s iirc.
Good. I will be going to Salt Lake soon.
From there it is a single line about 600 feet to the entrances to the scanning machines.
Our time through security about 1 hour.
I estimate the time needed at the airport to be 3 hours for everything if Domestic. I'd give in 4 hours for International.
UT liquor laws remain stiff, but there are little islands that are exempt.
For details beyond that, I cannot comment, being a non-drinker.
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