"Charlie Rose had the colored crew down at the dam... that built the parapet walls along the highway there and around the spillways, around the canyon wall there, all that rockwork. That's as beautiful a piece of rockwork as you'll see anywhere in the country. He was a white man, Charlie was. When Charlie would take a day off, they'd put someone else down there to run the... crew, and the... crew wouldn't work. Most of them [would] take a day off too. Charlie Rose knew how to treat them. They would work for him. Anybody else, they wouldn't work for."20 - Bob Parker "I ate at the Anderson Mess Hall. The food was excellent. As a matter of fact, I have never run into anything that would compare with it the food and the amount of food they put out. When people came here, they hadn't had a square meal for a long time, and they certainly took the slack out of their belts. "I remember one morning a man I had never seen before. He was sitting next to me at the breakfast table...There must have been 15 eggs anyway on that platter. I asked him to please pass the eggs. He took them up, and he scooped the whole platterful off on his plate and gave me the empty platter. I never saw anything like it. "21 - Wilford Voss Single men quickly filled the new dormitories unemployed white men. Pressured by the government, Six Companies hired a few crews of African Americans and Native Americans. Eventually complaints of discrimination prompted federal government officials to insist that workers of color be allowed to live in Boulder City. Once the Anderson Mess Hall replaced the hot and dangerous cooking tents, each wing seated six hundred men. The kitchen between the wings held massive and modern equipment completed by a full-size bakery and a butcher shop. Men working in the canyon assembled box lunches each morning, selecting sandwiches, fruit, and desserts.