The Real Hobbitville in Salt Lake City
My wife has been telling me for years about Hobbitville. A tiny neighborhood of little houses … where hobbits used to live on 13th -East in Salt Lake City. She swears her teenage friends used to sneak into Hobbitville… and she got ge chased away by little people. It was a place where dwarfs lived… in these little houses. Lo these many years later… Hobbitville… became Salt Lake City’s newest public park over the weekend.officially called Allen Park. After the late Dr. George Allen. As I read about this mythic home for Hobbits… that you can now visit… I learn Dr. Allen bought the property in 1931 to house some of his exotic bird collection. Dr. Allen played a big part in creating the Tracy Aviary… and Hogel Zoo. There were no hobbits. There were never little people… that my wife swears… were there. Actually.. an elephant lived there at one point. But I understand the stories. When I was growing up there were five different places in NJ called Midgetville. And there are more of them around the country. Apparently…. in the 1930’s people were transfixed by little people because of the Munchkins in the newly released Wizard of Oz… and anyplace you found tiny houses… you found rumors. And you found teenagers who swore they’ve seen the little people… Honey. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.