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Boulder City, Clark county, southeastern Nevada, U.S. is situated by the Hoover Dam. The only reason for its existence was the requirement of housing the employees hired to build the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. At the time of construction of the Dam, Boulder City sheltered more than 4,000 employees in 1500 buildings from 1931 to 1935. [5] [6]
English: Old Boulder City Hospital Property was sold and, despite a preservation effort, the facility was demolished late in 2015. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America .
In the film, she puts on a one-woman show titled So Long Boulder City, which gets her noticed by an agent. Boulder City is mentioned in S1E6 of Milo Murthy’s Law. The novel Lords of St. Thomas (GWP, 2018) by Jackson Ellis tells the story of the last family to vacate nearby St. Thomas, Nevada in 1938 following construction of the Boulder Dam.
SR 172 (Hoover Dam Access Road) / I-11 / US 93 north / Goldstrike Canyon Road – Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, Boulder City: Interchange northbound, roundabout southbound; I-11 exit 2; SR 172 east is former US 93 south/US 466 east: 1.4: 2.3: Lakeshore Road: To Lake Mead: Boulder City: 7.0: 11.3: Veterans Memorial Drive – Boulder City Municipal Airport
Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Boulder City, Nevada" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Hoover Dam Lodge is a hotel and casino near Boulder City, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Richard Craig Estey (Nevada Restaurant Services). It was previously the Gold Strike until it was largely destroyed by an accidental fire on June 16, 1998. It reopened the next year as the Hacienda and then took on its current name in January 2015.
The hotel was built for W.F. Grey, who saw the opportunity for a hotel in the "government town" of Boulder City. The hotel was completed in 1933. P.S. Webb built the hotel and purchased it from Grey in 1935 as part of his tourist agency. Webb advertised heavily, turning the hotel into a destination resort. Webb sold the property during World ...
It was during World War II and the years immediately afterward that Nevada's gambling and tourist industries began to take off. People like Bugsy Siegel, a New York City gangster, flocked to Nevada to take advantage of the growing communities. Many people visited Nevada's snow-topped mountains during the war years to ski.