Audio clip from interview with Eva Whaley, May 13, 2013

So then I had this little summer job already working for this Jewish lady on the Strip. My cousin had got this job for me. She owned a motel. So what she would have me do is do the dusting in her—they had a part where they lived—she would have me do the dusting in the office part and then she would have me do her—put the steaks on because them Jews, they ate steaks every day. She showed me how to do it, how to put the steaks on every night for their dinner, and then she would finish the rest of it. So it was like four or five hours that I would work there. What is the name of the motel? I don't even remember. But these people also owned apartments that were on the Westside and these apartments was called—they was right there on C and McWilliams—the Bel Aire; they were called the Bel Aire Apartments. So after we got married then they gave me an apartment— they didn't give it to me; they allowed us to have an apartment there in their apartment complex. So then that's how we got our first little apartment; it was just a little room, didn't even have a kitchenette, just a bed and the bathroom. Then across the street was the Westbrook Apartments, something, but anyway they had a kitchenette with theirs. So eventually, maybe in a few months we moved over there and got the apartment there. And then 1962 Margie Elliott was the real estate agent. My husband had heard about her, so he came over and talked to her. At that time they were building houses right behind Kit Carson School and we went to apply for one of those houses. She said, well, you guys are so young. By now he had got a job working at the Test Site. I was working for the Schwartzes; they owned the Schwartz Brothers men's store downtown, and I was baby-sitting their daughter. Her name is Patty. I was working for them five days a week. The pay that they paid me paid the rent; it was like 75 dollars a week and the rent was like 62 dollars. So they would just take the rent money out of the check. But anyway, then Margie Elliott said, okay, you guys are so young. She said what you need to do is just save your money because they're going to build some houses across—it wasn't Lake Mead then; it was something else—they're going to build some houses across there very soon. So save your money and then you'll probably be able to get one of those houses. So that's what we did. So when the houses came available over here, she gave us a call and we went in and we applied for the house, put in for the house. Marge's real estate office was on F Street right behind—it was a market over there called—I can't remember. It was a store, market, and her real estate office was behind that store and it was a barbershop there and also was a pharmacy, Desert Pharmacy or something. But anyway, she called us and we went over to her place and we filled out the application. I think the deposit was like a thousand dollars or something and we did get the house. So we were the first one, because she had told us about it, to apply for one of the houses here, so they named the street Travis Street. So they put us on Travis Street.