Was this Ma the muse for E. L. Moore's Ma of Ma's Place?

I was reading the Midland Terminal section in Beebe and Clegg's Mixed Train Daily, and stumbled across this paragraph describing what they saw in their 1940s swing through Victor, Colorado:

Victor is another of the sad, unpainted Colorado mountain towns that had seen boom times and known big payrolls once. There is a fortress of a hotel, the Hackley, the shuttered office of E. Kolberg, assayer, the Gold Coin Cafe, Ma's Place, and a Public Library, "Open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Evenings." Ma's Place was a lunchroom in what had once been a bank and her kitchen was through the ponderous doors, still glistening with bolts and time locks, of what had been the vault. Ma, an ageless beldame and spry as a kitten, may never have heard of Escoffier but she did some very useful things in the field of meat pies.

I don't think E. L. Moore ventured to Victor, Colorado in the 1940s, but I'm sure he read at least parts of Beebe and Clegg's book. His Spumoni Club Coach was based on a prototype he found in there. E. L. Moore's Ma's Place isn't a bank, but the Ma in Victor might have been the muse for his Ma. Ok, you're right, this is simply another instance of a man who writes about E. L. Moore thinks everything relates to E. L. Moore. :-) The next thing I'll be telling you is that the Nazca Lines are actually omnivagant streetcar track plans created by ancient alien model railroaders .... it's April 1st, you take it from there :-)