Boulder City: Restaurants

0002:0732: Boulder City: Restaurants
0002:0732

Boulder City: Restaurants

Name/Title

Boulder City: Restaurants

Entry/Object ID

0002:0732

Description

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 Room

Date

November 12, 2025

Notes

Photo Drawer 5

Created By

bcmha.archives@gmail.com

Create Date

March 9, 2021

Updated By

bcmha.archives@gmail.com

Update Date

November 12, 2025