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Show on THE ZEPHYR/OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2004 home with descriptions of the places I had been, and Marie would publish it in the paper. She was a very nice old lady, quite pretty and always well-dressed. She finally died in the nursing home in Blanding, maybe ten years ago. h fi i i ? wo Pee eae tae from the war. I met him at the Hole n’ the Rock. It used to be a restaurant. Albert Christensen and his brother Leo built it. They had a dance hall and a restaurant, and it was really the only honkytonk anywhere nearby. There was nothing like it in Monticello or Moab, so we'd all congregate and meet down there. It was in San Juan County and was too far away for the San Juan Sheriff to patrol, and Grand County wasn’t interested because it was just another burden on them and it wasn’t in Grand County anyway. So it became the wildest place and finally somebody got stabbed down there and they had to take away their beer license. And that’s where ] met my husband Hub. LITTLE WEASEL ADS, : THE Ws Siz R i INC. PRESENTS vik COM re AY D O THE DESERT RAT COMMANDO IN CUSTODY? Never say you're going to put peanut butter ontheGeoW's windshield (ws? Thad never been any farther from home than Salt Lake without my parents with me. So | got ona train and went to Washington, DC when ] was 20 years old and I stayed there a couple of years... Then I heard we were building a road to Alaska ..and I applied for the job. Jumping back a bit, tell me about World War II. I was living in Monticello and working in a government office there. I’d gone to college in Gunnison but came home on a vacation and got this job so I never went back to school. I took a civil service exam and received a notice that I’d been offered a job in the State Department. I had never been any farther from home than Salt Lake without my parents with me. So I got on a train and went to Washington, D.C. I was 20 years old and I stayed there a couple of years. Then I heard we were building a road to Alaska that they called the Al-Can Highway at the time. We thought that would be pretty exciting so another girl and | applied for the job and off to Edmonton we went. We were there until the last year of the war and the project was winding down, so we transferred to San Francisco. That’s where I was for V-J Day which was pretty exciting. And then I came home where I met Hub at the Hole n’ the Rock. But you didn’t know Hub before then. No. Moab kids were pretty wild. My parents made them off-limits and we couldn’t date them. But I married one. He was a good friend of Donna Loveridge and her husband had grown up in Moab too. So he used to come up to see them all the time and I just managed to capture him. NEXT MONTH: Time is of WALKABOUT a. ee TRAVEL GEAR” || (1 Supplying the Independent Traveler with Essential Gear and Information “EXPLORE THE WORLD BEFORE ITS TOO LATE." Call us at 1-800-852-7085 for a free catalogue And order On-Line, Anytime, Anywhere www.walkabouttravelgear.com Maxine remembers uranium, boom days in Moab, and Charlie Steen. So 181 06.1 AND LISTEN ON-LINE WORLDWIDE: WWW.KZMU.ORG [ NOT amets en FOLLOW ELECTION RETURNS RIGHT HERE ON KZMUu! PAGE25 ee | |