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Before
Building the Dam
Manix department store Boulder City; 1931
Courtesy of the University of Nevada at Reno Oral Histories
Manix department store Boulder City; 1931
Courtesy of the University of Nevada at Reno Oral Histories
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Mary Ann Merrill:
| K: Well, you’ve given me a pretty good physical
description of what much of the town looked like. Perhaps you could
add to it a little bit. You could tell me something about the downtown
area. M: The downtown area was nice. The Manix store was the place to go. It had everything. It had dry goods, and it had a shoe shop, and it had a little grocery store. And, of course the company store had all of these, too. They had the dress shop, and they had a drug store, and they had the grocery store. And those were the 2 stores in town. That’s all we had right then. Later on we got the central market, but that was about 1936, probably. [It was] probably in 1936 when Mr. Stubbs had the first central market, and that was on Wyoming Street. Then it moved to where Smith’s root beer stand was. And we had the theater. That was down from Smith’s root beer stand. And a sweet shop and different things moved later. |
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