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An Interview with John Giuffra: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock

John Giuffra was born in 1911 in American Flat, a small valley to the south of Virginia City, Nevada. His father was employed by the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. When John was three years old, the Giuffra family moved to Virginia City, which has remained his home ever since. Mr. Giuffra is a graduate of the Fourth Ward School. Following overseas service in the military in World War II, he returned to Virginia City and worked as a heavy equipment operator for a mine in Gold Hill. Eventually this led to a career in construction throughout west-central Nevada. John Giuffra develops a picture of life in Virginia City over a period of five decades. Of particular interest are his comments on American Flat during the early 1900s, the Virginia City fire of 1942, and the economic revival of the community by tourism in the years following World War II.

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