Last night we drove around the historic district a while. They've done a nice job with the older buildings and historic businesses. We also noticed a number of bronze statues around town. Many of them were installed last May as part of a public arts project.
High winds (gusts up to 32 miles an hour) kept us here at the Elks Club in Boulder City a day longer than we had planned. No worries. We went grocery shopping, bought a few parts and pieces for the rig, and visited the Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum, housed in the old Boulder Dam Hotel. What an amazing engineering feat it was! and as the museum points out, the challenges the workers and their families faced just in daily living are noteworthy too. There was no school planned, no houses, no services, as all the families moved in. High temperatures were another challenge - no air conditioning in those days! Quite a bit of history is available on the museum web link, above.
After touring we had another couple of cold one's in the Elks lounge - nice folks to visit with. Weather predictions are for much less wind tomorrow, so we'll be heading north.
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