From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.K. Miscellaneous. Locke built the restaurant in the 1950s when oil was discovered in Railroad Valley. 

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.K. Miscellaneous. 

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.G. Miscellaneous. Mrs. Banovich, born in Yugoslavia in 1877, is holding flowers she grew in her Garden.

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.G. Miscellaneous. Front row, from left, are Olga Beko, Jennie Reeves, and Ardith Thompson. Captain Smith, stationed at the Tonopah Army Air Base, is in rear cener, flanked by two army officers whose identities are unknown. 

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.G. Miscellaneous. The woman with the white corsage and hat on the right is Captain Smith’s wife; Colonel Flynn sits at her right, followed by Catherine Banovich-Lydon, and Captain Smith. The Tonopah Army Air Force Band is providing entertainment. NOTE: The image on this picture inadvertently reversed during printing. 

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.G. Miscellaneous. A gathering of local citizens and Tonopah Army Air Base personnel at the Ramona Hotel, spring of 1943. From left, Colonel Flynn, Captain Smith’s wife, Captain Leo Delore, Catherine Banovich-Lydon, and members of the Tonopah Army Air Force Band, Nevada. 

 From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.G. Miscellaneous. Dempsey was the Grand Marshal in the Tonopah 50th Anniversary Parade. Dempsey knew Lydon from his early days in the Tonopah-Goldfield are, when Dempsey roomed (batched) with Lydon's brother. Dempsey is known to have said that the two toughest fights of his life were against a local fighter, Johnny Sudenberg, with whom Freck Lydon trained. Lydon was involved in law enforcement in Tonopah for many years. If a troublemaker saw Lydon put on his gloves when making an arrest, the troublemaker knew he was in for a tough time!.