Name/Title
Boulder City: RestaurantsEntry/Object ID
0002:0732Description
The first grocery story/café in Boulder City, located at the bottom of Colorado Street on the truck route to Hoover Dam at the bottom of the hill; according to Sherl Stice, May 23, 1986; l-r: W.F. Shields, owner; Harry Buchanan, cook; Mrs. Shields, April 18, 1931; see Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal, April 28, 1931, p.1*; UNLS- Union Pacific Railroad collection no. 36
*Jack Shield, brother?, of W.F. Shields bought the nearby Hungercure restaurant [0002:0733-0735] in January 1932 [Las Vegas Age, January 9, 1932, 1:1]. The Shields brothers had owned a store some years before that was in Hesse's Camp on the Colorado River near the mouth of Las Vegas Wash. [see 0007:0333 for original]Other Name
UNLS Union Pacific Railroad Collection (no.36)Location
Location
Rolling Rack #4
Research RoomDate
November 12, 2025Notes
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