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Each Friday, The Salt Lake Tribune presents images from its archives and the archives of the Utah State Historical Society in a special series called A Look Back. Today, we are showcasing photos from 30 years ago when heavy floods in Utah turned State Street into a river and a mudslide buried the town of Thistle.

Every gallery of the series is available at http://www.sltrib.com/topics/lookback.

Here are some of the previous installments: