From the KLVX Steamboats on the Colorado Photograph Collection (PH-00156). Written on photo sleeve: "Ehrenburg, Arizona Territory Ruins of old city." "COPY Reproduction from the Original in the Arizona Historical Society" stamp on verso.
Gwendolyn K. Walker arrived in North Las Vegas in 1962 from Houston, Texas, as a five-year-old with her parents, two brothers, and her cousins. The Walker family at first moved to a rented house on D Street, and Gwen attended Kit Carson Elementary School for first grade. Her mother enrolled in nursing school, so she sent Gwen back to Delhi, Louisiana, to be raised by her grandmother. In Delhi Gwen picked cotton with her aunt while she was in the second grade. Gwen returned to North Las Vegas to live with her mother and complete elementary school at Jo Mackey before matriculating to J. D. Smith Elementary School for junior high school and then to Clark High School. Later she attended UNLV. Gwen and her mother joined Saint James Catholic Church at H Street and Washington Avenue, but after she returned from Delhi she joined Second Baptist Church, where she became close with a cohort of friends that remained strong even as she experienced racism and bullying and love for the first time.
An aerial photo of Boulder City, Nevada. The photo was taken in 1974 by Cooper Aerial Surveys, 1692 West Grand Road, Tucson, Arizona 85705, Phone 884-7580.
An aerial photo of Boulder City, Nevada. The photo was taken in 1974 by Cooper Aerial Surveys, 1692 West Grand Road, Tucson, Arizona 85705, Phone 884-7580.