In a profile of Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore, Salt Lake City, Utah, on the occasion of its 80th anniversary, Bookselling This Week noted that, since the legendary bookshop's "history has been chronicled extensively, BTW asked Tony Weller for some of the lesser-known facts about the family business." These include:
- We foolishly have some 17,000 square feet of storage and workspace supporting a 20,000 sq.-ft. sales area.
- Salt Lake's first punk bar was in what is now our basement.
- We have a cozy relationship with the Scrub Oak Bindery, which does skilled restoration and binding work.
- Catherine and I met at punk rock shows and parties.
- We have one of the largest collections of USGS (United States Geological Survey) publications in the nation.
- Sam Weller built the long catwalk around the interior of our high-ceilinged main floor in 1973 because he loved the feel of the Scribner's store in New York.
- After finding the second bowling pin under our floorboards in the basement, I learned that there used to be a bowling alley there.
- The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, and Mormon murderer Mark Hoffman were customers of ours.
- Terry Tempest Williams used to work here and met her husband here.