Chronicler: Rosie and Sil Uriguen

Interviewer: Gretchen Holbert

Date: 6/9/86

Subject: Paradise Valley Hotels

Only recorded on side 1

0:10         Paradise Hotel

0:24         had theater and stage

0:42         granite bar

0:50         Auditorium burned

1:03         quarry out of paradise, Italians quarried stone

1:25         Paradise Catholic church made out of this stone

1:43         Sil’s mother’s oldest sister came to Paradise first and brought the rest of the family

2:04         Chimney Creek

2:25         Solaegui

3:17         Paradise Hotel had boarders

3:39         Sil’s aunt had laundry service; her name Sinfarosa (?)

4:25         Sil’s uncle Gus had the hotel

4:47         Sinfarosa was midwife

5:45         Sinfarosa died in her 90s

6:20         Sil’s mother worked at the hotel for Viviana and later Johnny Yurreta and Justo Zabala

7:30         prohibition; “prohibes”

8:06         miners slept upstairs

8:24         the city police warned the hotel about the prohibes and immigration

8:47         Overland in Winnemucca

9:05         “prohibes”

9:15         Sil’s mom worked at the Telescope and the Star in Elko when she separated from  his father

10:10       Basque tables for herders and cowboys and other tables for small groups

10:29       Vick Markategi cooked; Sil’s mom was a waitress

10:37       prohibes caught Viviana; and Sil’s stepfather did time for her

11:48       Viviana

12:31       Cendagorta

12:44       Justo Zabala

13:05       Bush Hotel; had a bowling Alley, lots of rooms; burned down on a Christmas night

13:30       Winnemucca hotel had a handball court

13:49       Auditorium burned down; they tore down Gastanaga’s place

13:55       Cochero had a couple butcher shops

14:16       Cochero had a bar; burned down Gastanaga’s place

15:12       1950s

15:40       There were two Echeverria families in Paradise that were not related; Echeverria and Echevarria:Sil’s aunt married one

16:10       Jack Smith was accountant

16:37       granite hitching post

17:06       granite; Pasqualis and Bojos (?); Italians were stone masons

17:40       Basques were involved in sheep business; Chinese, Indians, Italians, Germans mostly worked on ranches; Schwartz, Stuarts

19:11       Alzola, Frosty

19:27       Wild Horse

19:34       Joe Legarza

19:50       Fritz Buckingham in Paradise

20:25       Frank Aramburu in Paradise

21:10       Mrs. Mendiola and Mrs. Gabica

21:20       Ethel Hornbarger was an Etchegoyen

21:27       Philip Egazki had a grocery store

22:18       Frenchie (?) had some photos of the hotel

22:44       John Yurreta, Pete Yurreta, Louis Bilbao all owned the hotel

23:23       Mendiola

23:43       “Lola Loca,” and  Santi Mendieta, had hotels

25:12       Sara Gartiz

25:29       Toni Gartiz

26:39       Pete Gartiz

26:42       END SIDE 1

SIDE 2 BLANK