Audio clip 1 from interview with Ruth Urban, August 24, 2015 and September 16, 2015

Let's start with how you came to live in Las Vegas. How old were you when you came? I was ten when we actually moved here, but we had been coming up to Las Vegas every summer since I can remember as a young child. We were living in Los Angeles and my mother had a childhood friend from New York who lived here and was somewhat of a pioneer here, Bella Stern. She had a ranch on the corner of what is Arville and Oakey. At that time Oakey was called Porter Drive and there was nothing but desert there and her ranch. Her ranch had bungalows on it for divorcees. It was quite a spectacular ranch. We used to come up every summer and spend the summer with her. My mom visited with her, and my sister and I played. It was a great summer. Then one summer, in 1958, we came up like we had every year and the next thing I know is my mother said, "Well, we're moving here." What did you think of that? That was the end of their marriage. She had come up here and there was a recession at t