Boulder City was created in the 1930s to house the workers building Boulder Dam, now called Hoover Dam, and there are no casinos. Affluent people have built lovely homes overlooking Lake Mead - the one in the middle you can barely make out, because it blends with the surroundings perfectly. The teensy worker houses have all been preserved - my one bedroom apartment is probably bigger.
P.S. I have it on good authority that the top house belonged to the late Mr. Whipple, he of the toilet paper TV commercials "Please don't squeeze the Charmin". What is it with Boulder City and toilet paper?
Boulder City has a lot of statues depicting the workers who built Hoover Dam and their families. The top guy made sure all the bathrooms had toilet paper and he cleaned them with that big brush. All this reminds me of growing up in communist Poland, where we had a lot of statues dedicated to the proletariat, but the women weren't nearly so stylish - they usually wielded an axe, too, and the children had nothing to laugh about.
