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Date:  		 Mary Labourde, Angela Evans
Gretchen Holbert
Eureka, NV
7/28/?

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Mary Labourde, Angela Evans

Mary Labourde and Angela Evans (mother and daughter) lived in Eureka in hotels there. Mary Labourde lived in the French and Eureka Hotels and the Nevada Club.

In this interview, the two ladies describe Eureka's history and their lives there. They tell what is was like for them living in the hotels, as well as what is was like for the women running and working in hotels.

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The Eureka Hotel (11:00)
Life in the Hotel (10:50)
More of the Hotel Life (9:21)
The Food in the Hotels (9:52)
The Nevada Club, Life After the Eureka (8:20)
Some Other Nevada Hotels (5:30)
  
Keywords in Order of Appearance

Places

People

Topics

Years
Eureka, NV
Boone Springs, NV
Ely
Reno
Pocatello, ID
Austin, NV
 Mr. Landa
 hotels
French Hotel
Eureka Hotel
food
Great Depression
Colonnade Hotel

 

 1926
1927
1927-45
1936
1932
1948
1963

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