Transcript of interview with Barbara G. Brents Claytee D. White, January 12, 2010

When Barbara Brents and her husband Mike moved to Las Vegas in 1987, she had no desire to call it home. It was part of a life adventure, an enchantment with the "Old West" and about a job at UNLV. Sure it wasn't the ivy covered campus, but "the kitsch of Las Vegas was kind of the appeal." Living in John S. Park Neighborhood proved to have a charm on the couple, who have lived in three different homes there. One had a view of Bob Stupak's World of Las Vegas sign and another was used in a scene for the television series Nasty Boys. Their current home was previously owned by Berkeley Bunker, a former U.S. Senator. Over the years they have enticed others to live in John S. Park and continue live there themselves. Barbara shares historic footnotes, political stories, and what lead up to the historic districting of the neighborhood she so dearly cherishes. As she says, "The reason I like Las Vegas is this neighborhood, and I would be gone in a second if this neighborhood died."