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Audio recording clip of interview with Ruth Eppenger D'Hondt by Claytee D. White, August 25, 2011, and July 9, 2012

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D'Hondt, Ruth Eppenger White, Claytee D

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Part of an interview Ruth Eppenger D'Hondt conducted by Claytee D. White on August 25, 2011. D'Hondt shares memories of her parents' restaurant.I want to start with your early life. Tell me where you grew up and what your parents did for a living. I grew up right here in Las Vegas on Jackson Street. We had a restaurant. My mother owned the restaurant, actually. My dad was a laborer for the Test Site it was called at that time, but he also helped out in the restaurant. We all worked in the restaurant as we grew old enough to work there. We had the restaurant for about 26 years. Tell me the name of the restaurant. It was my mom's name, Mattie's Cafe. What did you serve? What we called it in that time was just home cooking. It was a very popular place. The entire family ate there. And all of our vendors that came to bring supplies from all over, they would stop and eat there as well. It was a popular place. As a matter of fact, what I remember now of interest, once we started recruiting from UNLV ballplayers. They would come in. The coach would bring them over and they would buy a meal ticket so that they could be fed
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