A list of Layton's top 28 businesses in 1951: Only 2 left today

                                                           Heritage Museum of Layton photograph.

HERE'S a list of Layton's top businesses in 1951, according to the Weekly Reflex newspaper of Nov. 15, 1951:

Wayne's Market
Dick's Service
Dick's Distributing company
Tri-State Lumber Company
Layton Launderette
Bill's Sheet Metal
Traveler's Cafe
Layton Department Store
Ray Walker's Service
Layton Cold Storage
W.M. Bush Company
Adams Grocery
Nellean's Cafe
Layton Sporting Goods
Roy's Service
Layton Auto Parts
Ray's Shoe Repair
Adams Supermarket
Signal Cafe
Farmer's Union
Union Furniture Company
Bishop's Ford
Clarence S. Simmons Realty
Dick's Billards
Kowley Drug
Layton Noodle Parlor
Stockman's Bar
Penney's
(All these were members of the Layton Chamber of Commerce.)

-HOW many of these 28 businesses listed are left today?
Only Bill's Sheet Metal (now Bill's Comfort Systems) and Stockman's Bar.

                                                                          Heritage Museum of Layton photographs.

Layton City's budget in 1955: $156,000

                                                 Layton City Hall in 1955.
                                                                                       -Heritage Museum of Layton photograph.

LAYTON City's budget in 1955 was only $156,490.05
A break down of expenditures then was:
Administration: $10,550
Public safety: $3,150
Police Department: $9,750
Streets: $31,900
New roads: $7,500
Water and sewer operating fund: $27,706
New water and sewer lines: $49,196.55
Sewer and water retirement: $16,814.66

Layton's first garbage dumps were in hollows

  The current Layton landfill, in the extreme northeast section of the City, is also for all of Morgan County and most of Davis County (except Bountiful).

THE first garbage dump in Layton was located just south of Gordon Avenue at Church Street.
Layton historian Harris Adams said that's where the first garbage dump in the city was, in the early 20th Century. It was in a hollow and was simply filled up for ground level.
Then, another hollow was used for waste. This one was located just south of Highway 193, near 2500 North. (Today, Layton Christian Academy, Apple Village Assisted Living Center, plus some homes are located. Again, a hollow in the area was filled with waste.
After that, in 1956, Layton and neighboring Clearfield City moved their solid waste disposal to where it is today -- in the extreme northeast section of the City. Adams said his father, a member of the Davis County Commission, was instrumental in getting the current modern landfill established.
Today, a special service district, Wasatch Integrated Waste Management District, operates this landfill.