Residents and shop owners -- even the ones in the shiny new stores on the east side of 1100 East and 2100 South -- say Sugar House is a ... all » kind of "Our Town" for both the tragically and affluently hip. It's the sort of place where having tattoos and face piercings can actually help rather than hurt the chance of getting a job, and where exotic dancers come to shop. "The strippers shop here," says Jesse Dobbs, 22, as he points to a pair of thigh-high, faux snake-skin, high-heel boots for sale at the Blue Boutique. "Who else would want these but a stripper?" Dobbs, sporting a silver bar through his nose and other larger things in his ears, says he fits right in at Sugar House, where he clerks at the boutique, now considered a fixture in Sugar House after 15 years. "There's a high flow of traffic here," he said. "And there's a lot of, like, alternative people here. It's not just all regular people." Indeed there are folks like Dobbs all over Sugar House. The local businesses here have unique lures that aren't found elsewhere in Salt Lake City or Utah.  «

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