| Title |
Lester Erbes, Moab, Utah, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
Lester Erbes, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Erbes, Lester |
| Contributor |
Guttman, Steve |
| Date |
1970-08-12 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Moab, Grand County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Erbes, Lester--Interviews; Moab (Utah); Broadcasters--United States |
| Description |
Transcript (40 pages) of an interview by Steve Guttman with Lester Erbes, on August 12, 1970. From tape number 40 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Steve Guttman interviewed Erbes, a broadcaster, in Moab. Subjects: personal background, recreational activities, television station, Moab as tourist center, poverty, politics, problems in Moab, future of Moab, Canyonlands (40 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
23 pages, 49 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6fb78x2 |
| Topic |
Broadcasters; Utah--Moab |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056188 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fb78x2 |
| Title |
Page 18 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056160 |
| OCR Text |
Show LESTER ERBES 111 that hire about fifteen or twenty people, but we pretty much live off each other over here." That town is chuck full of tourists. I guess the tourist business is probably the basis of their whole economy. It's bound to be that around here sooner or later. People travel, and there are more people around here all the time. SG: So it's your view that Moab will increasingly become a tourist center? LE: More and more, especially as they get better roads into the Canyon lands National Park area, for one thing, because that's going to bring a lot of people, there's no question about it. And better roads on the mountain. We have a heat problem here, as you know. It's just about over. If you are going to be around here for two or thee more weeks, you'll find a definite change. But if we can get our mountain roads to be all-weather roads, you know black top, why, I think that will diminish the heat problem for the tourist trade. We have a slump every July in tourist trade. The only reason, I'm sure, is because it's so hot here. But when we get out mountain roads developed to where people can wander around here in the desert in the daytime and then go up to the mountains and sleep at night, why, I think that we're going to have a better chance by far of holding our tourists longer. SG: You're talking about route roads like the Loop Road? 14 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fb78x2/1056160 |
