Audio recording clip of interview with Samuel E. Wright by Claytee D. White, October 8, 2010
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Part of an interview with Samuel E. Wright conducted by Claytee D. White on October 8, 2010. Wright explains what led to the formation of the F Street Coalition and the initiation of neighborhood preservation efforts.Give me some information about that F Street Coalition. Tell me what happened recently — well, first, before we talk about the F Street, let's bring ourselves up to that. What happened in the Department of Transportation after that arterial was put in? Anything else noteworthy that you want to talk about? Well, first of all, I'd like to talk about what had happened earlier on. This was not the first time the situation with F Street had occurred. In our research we discovered that back in the late sixties, early seventies, the State of Nevada Department of Transportation had a program, not just a project, a program to close all of the lettered streets - A, B, C, D, E and F, G and H. They were going to close all of them off. And what they wound up doing is they closed off A and B and C. 30 D was left open. With the freeway? That's right, with the freeway. And D was left open. Let's see. E's closed off. F was left open. G is closed off. And H was left open. Okay? So at the time
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