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Mary Eaton explains how families dealt with the temperatures
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| Title | Mary Eaton explains how families dealt with the temperatures |
| Play video or audio | http://banyan.library.unlv.edu:8080/ramgen/Mary3.rm (video); http://banyan.library.unlv.edu:8080/ramgen/audio/maryaudio/Mary3audio.rm (audio) |
| Photographer/Artist/Creator | Eaton, Mary |
| Original Date | 1986-11-15 |
| Summary/Description | In an interview with Dennis McBride, Mary Eaton explains how families dealt with the ranging temperatures in Boulder City. |
| Subject | Eaton, MaryHeat -- Nevada -- Boulder City -- 1930-1940Women -- Nevada -- Boulder City -- 1930-1940 |
| Full Text | Mary: We had a-like a frame, a wooden frame with burlap over it, and (let's see, how did we do that?) there must have been-turned a hose on that someway so it kept that burlap wet. And so you'd do that and put that in the window, and that was before the swamp cooler. Dennis: Was it very effective? Mary: No, not really. I used to have a-we had a floor fan, and I used to take a pan of water and put the floor fan behind it, hoping that that would make it a little cooler. Well, it didn't-not really-but it kinda gave you the satisfaction of knowing you were trying to do something, but... Dennis: What other ways did people try to keep cool here, or try to keep their houses cool even? Mary: Well, a lot of people just took the hose and turned it on the roof, and just wet the roof down, especially people who had graveyard workers. And another thing: these floors, you couldn't hurt them, they were just, you know, rough wood, and just turn the hose in on the floor and that would, you know, kinda keep it wet and it seemed like a little bit cooler. We'd also take a shower and go to bed wet. Dennis: How did you keep from getting pneumonia? Mary: I don't know; probably some people did. Dennis: Now what did...how did you handle the cold and the wind? Mary: Well the wind, I've still never gotten used to that wind, but there wasn't anything very much we could do about that until we got grass and trees planted. But, now, for the cold we had Flame-O stoves. Dennis: What's Flame-O? Mary: It's an oil...burning, oil-using fuel. And everybody had Flame-O stoves. Dennis: What did a Flame-o stove look like? Mary: Well, it was round, about so high. That's about it. Dennis: Did it have a stovepipe? Mary: Yes, it had a stovepipe. And it'd get real hot; it worked pretty well, the Flame-O stove. And they had these Flame-O tanks-there was a place out on Boulder highway where you could get the Flame-O. |
| Coverage | Nevada--Boulder City |
| Image Number | TC557.5 .H6 E28x pt.1 |
| Access and Ordering Information | Not to be reproduced without permission. To purchase copies of images and/or for copyright information, contact University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries, Special Collections at: http://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/ |
| Format | Video/Audio/RealMedia 0:02:21 minutes |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Mirocapture capturing software; Helix conversion software |
| File Name | Mary3.rm; Mar3audio.rm |
| Contributor | McBride, Dennis |
| Resource Type | Moving Image |
| Source | Boulder City Oral History Project |
| Holding Institution | University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries, Special Collections |
| Digital Collection | Early Las Vegas. Hoover Dam |
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