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Virginia Zasucha (Barrett) inherited a house on Fremont St in the 1930s from Las Vegas pioneer Richard Busteed. She ran it as a rooming house in the 30s, and leased the Fremont & 10th corner to a service station. Together with her husband Jack Barrett, her daughter Stella, and Stella's
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