EG: President Roosevelt came and by that time we had our school started and we had a little orchestra at the school. And my oldest son, Tommy, he played violin. And they had the kids, the school kids played a piece or two for President Roosevelt at the dedication of the dam, and I was very, very proud of that.

EG: Oh, he did. Now I want to tell you, my husband -- we leased 40 acres below town and we had a ranch, the only ranch that has ever been here. It's now where the airport is and everything. And, of course, he always fussed and if our cows'd get up into town, he'd raise holy hell. But one time, one of our cows got up into town and he called us to get it back down, and then when my husband went to get it, why, old Simms was watchin' it, too, and all of the school kids were watchin' the cow. And, you see, a lot of the kids that had come from cities and everything, they'd never even seen a cow. And he didn't realize that. And when he realized that some of these school kids had never even seen a cow, why, he wanted us to leave the cow long enough till the kids went back to school and then we had to get the cow back where it belonged.

EG: There were lawyers, doctors, everybody that hadn't committed suicide because of tryin' to get a job, any kind of a job. And that's the reason that -- that this man went in too quick and got disemboweled. I don't know what he had done before he came, but they were in so big a hurry to make their four bucks a day and have some kind of money after they'd lost everything, that they didn't know anything about mining, you see.

EG: Oh, yes, they were -- they were workin' in the tunnels and everywhere just right along as -- as common laborers. Yes, sir.

EG: My husband was a marvelous man. He was such a good man and everybody loved him. I think he was loved by all of the children that are my children's age, we were Mom and Pop Godbey to the whole town because -- then when they started the Legion, then we had the Sons of the Legion and the Daughters of the Legion. And he was the father for the Sons of the Legion and I was the mother for the Daughters of the American Legion. And, you see, the servicemen got priority for being hired. And so that's why we had so many servicemen in Boulder and we had nearly a thousand men in the American Legion when the dam was finished.

EG: He did everything. See, how here was the proposition. After we moved into Vegas, any time that he wanted to come in he'd have to quit the job he was on and draw his pay in order to bring me any money because they only paid once a month. And he'd have to try to come in once a week to see me and the children. And he'd have to quit his job. Then he'd have to come out and get a job somewhere else. So he worked on all kinds of jobs.

EG: Well, this is a picture of my whole family taken in the 3D-foot pinstock pipe ready to go down to the dam on the 32-wheel trailer.

EG: That was Christmas Day, 1934.

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