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Main Street icon Peter Marshall continues his family's 100-year legacy of Salt Lake City shopkeeping.
Getting to Utah Book & Magazine (327 S. Main) hours before dawn so as to straighten his store for its 7 a.m. opening, he maintains a pattern long established within his family's legacy of urban shopkeeping.
Peter Marshall typically starts his workday before even the proverbial rooster has had a chance to stir. Getting to Utah Book & Magazine (327 S. Main) hours before dawn so as to straighten his store for its 7 a.m. opening, he maintains a pattern long established within his family's legacy of urban shopkeeping.
"After 109 years, you get kind of a routine," he told City Weekly during a recent interview. "I do it every day." He fervently adheres to the advice bequeathed to him long ago by his father Earl "Bud" Marshall Jr. (1921-1986): "Son, if you want something done, do it yourself."
And ever…
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