Oral history of Blanche Allen Leavitt, 1985 June 11, 2006 March

Leavitt gives a little family history and mentions that her grandfather, a farmer, was the first person in Mesa to dig a well. She mentions several downtown businesses including the post office, Clyde's furniture store, Dennett's drugstore, LeSueur's grocery store, and The Toggery. She also recalls the Mezona dance hall and the Opera House theater. Leavitt talks about the flu epidemic when her entire family was ill and her uncle died leaving behind a wife and ten children. She recalls when she and her husband, Joe, married and tells a little about his work building Mesa's Mormon temple and his career as a Mesa police officer. Leavitt talks about the area surrounding her home on Horne Street, the building of homes and the development of the roads. She describes doing laundry by hand and having milk delivered by a milkman. She finishes the interview by reminiscing about several Mormon families who are all interrelated.