A man photographed with a fish on State Street during the 1983 flooding event remembers his experience, saying he and his family actually ate the rainbow trout that was swimming in the flood waters. SpencerJosephTV
Alma Allred, the man in a well-known photo with a trout on State Street, remembered his experience during the unprecedented flooding event.
"We couldn't get cars into the garages because there were rivers going around all of them," said Allred."While I'm standing there looking at this gravel and this river coming down State Street, here comes this rainbow trout," Allred recounted. Yet, like all fish stories, Allred struggled to find anyone who would believe him. Determined to capture evidence, he had a realization.Allred managed to find someone to take a photo of him with the fish, and the next day, the Salt Lake Tribune featured the story on its front page.
"I had a neighbor who called me the next day too. He was in New Jersey, and it was on the front page of the newspaper there," Allred recalled.
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