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Show LESTER ERBES f/1 LE: Fred Stoye. I had sold my bowling alley and was sort of coasting along. As I say, I had dabbled in real estate a little bit, and had just recently sold a TV and radio setup he had in Las Vegas. He came up here to Moab and built the old post office building, what we call old-it's fairly new building, but the post office building. We used to communicate each year with Christmas cards at least, you know. So he just said, "Come on out and visit us, and maybe we can get something going." And we did. SG: What kind of things was he telling you about Moab? LE: Oh, he told me it was a beautiful little town in the West, with the mountains only sixteen miles away. Actually I guess they're not quite that far as the crow flies. But, of course, if you drive it, it's a little bit farther. At any rate, he just wanted me to come out and see it. He said it was beautiful country, and it certainly is. No qu~stion about it. I had a friend come out, an army buddy of mine. I had sent him a lot of pictures of the area. He came in on Frontier Airlines when the airport was still out here in the valley. They circled around, and he got off the plane. He walked over to me and said, "You know, I looked at all those pictures and they looked fun, but you really have to see this to believe it. "And he's right. It's beautiful country out here. I came out here to stay one year, in '56. I never 2 |
