Boulder City, Nevada - FOR BREAKFAST

Known as the “Best City By A Dam Site”, Boulder City (pop 15,000) 209 sq miles is about 26 miles from Las Vegas and the last stop before Hoover Dam. Its sole reason for existence was the need to house workers contracted to build the Hoover Dam in built by the Bureau of Reclamation and the Six Companies that worked on the dam. Because the Hoover Dam project represented a focus for optimism for our country during The Depression, the town was to be an additional manifestation of this optimism with clean-living, the prohibition of alcohol and gambling and good quality of life.Läs mer