Plat of Zion
99% Invisible
SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars
4.8 β’ 28.1K Ratings
ποΈ 14 December 2016
β±οΈ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars. |
| 0:04.0 | All right turning on to South Temple Road. |
| 0:08.0 | Road place. It's just called South Temple. |
| 0:10.0 | South Temple is in fact the complete name of the street on which our |
| 0:13.9 | producer Sam Greenspan is driving crossing 500 east exactly 660 feet later Sam |
| 0:20.1 | drives across the next major street. Here's 400 east. |
| 0:23.0 | And 660 feet after that. |
| 0:25.0 | 300 east. |
| 0:27.0 | If you recognize the streets that Sam is calling off, |
| 0:29.0 | you already know exactly where he is. |
| 0:31.0 | And what he's about to see. |
| 0:33.0 | 200 East. |
| 0:35.0 | And now here's State Street, which seems to work like a 100 East. |
| 0:40.0 | Wow, there it is. |
| 0:42.0 | Oh my gosh, that is the Mormon temple. |
| 0:44.4 | The Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah. |
| 0:49.8 | It's quite striking. It's beautiful. The urban grid of Salt Lake City, Utah is designed to tell you exactly |
| 0:56.8 | where you are in relation to Temple Square, one of the holiest sites for Mormons. |
| 1:01.7 | I first learned about this when I was writing a letter to a friend in Salt Lake |
| 1:04.8 | whose address was like 300-something south 2,100 East Salt Lake City UT which to me |
| 1:11.6 | sounded less like a specific house number and more like a set of |
| 1:14.8 | coordinates but that's pretty much how every address works in Salt Lake City and in |
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