Like the Church’s granite vaults that hold genealogical records, a private company offers the same service in Little Cottonwood canyon.
The idea for commercial storage came from the Mormon church, which opened its six tunnel vaults in 1964, four years earlier than Perpetual Storage. The church rarely opens its vaults to outsiders and turned down an AP request to visit. . .
It wasn’t until computers came into widespread use that companies began looking for places safe from disaster to store backup copies of electronic records. Perpetual Storage is banking on this niche business to secure its future. It also keeps computer records for hospitals, government agencies and universities.
“We figure computers are not going to go away,” Nowa said. . .
In recent years, Perpetual Storage has turned away a Utah Jazz basketball player who wanted to store an antique car because it’s not a garage, a research group that wanted to store cryogenic cells because it wasn’t equipped for human storage, and a Utah-based religion, Summum, that wanted to store mummies.
“I thought they were talking about Egyptian mummies,” said Nowa, whose curiosity turned to horror when he learned local people would be mummified.
UPDATE: The Deseret Morning News picked up this AP story but included some photos, one which might be recognizable and helpful to those familiar with Little Cottonwood Canyon.
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