Abstract
The Dolores Brownhofer Neonis Photograph Collection (approximately 1940-1970) contains photographic prints, negatives, and a slide depicting the Brownhofer family at restaurants, bars, and casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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The Dolores Brownhofer Neonis Photograph Collection (approximately 1940-1970) contains photographic prints, negatives, and a slide depicting the Brownhofer family at restaurants, bars, and casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada. There is also one aerial image of the intersection of Maryland Parkway and Charleston Boulevard.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish. Some transcripts do not exist in final form, therefore any editing marks in a transcript (deletions, additions, corrections) are to be quoted as marked.
Biographical / Historical Note
Delores Brownhofer Neonis was born June 6, 1926 in Los Angeles, California to Isabel and Xavier Brownhofer. Neonis relocated and purchased her first home in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1941. Neonis married John Neonis on February 2, 1951 in Kern, California. Xavier and Isabel Brownhofer moved to Las Vegas from Los Angeles in 1954 and purchased a restaurant called "The Original Steak House." Delores Brownhofer Neonis was listed as the vice president of the restaurant. She also worked for her parents as a cook in 1958 and 1959. The family sold the restaurant in 1960.
Neonis operated her own real estate company, Delores Neonis Realty, in Las Vegas until the late 1970s. Neonis also served as a chairperson for the Commuter Effective Mass Transportation Committee from 1972 to 1974, who sought to create a monorail system in Las Vegas.
Neonis died on December 22, 1992 in Los Angeles, California.
Sources:
Delores Brownhofer Neonis Papers, 1941-1975. MS-00182. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Genealogy Files about "Delores Frances Brownhofer." Accessed March 10, 2020 on familysearch.org
Preferred Citation
Delores Brownhofer Neonis Photograph Collection, approximately 1940-1970. PH-00116. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Materials were donated by Delores Brownhofer Neonis in 1976; accession number 76-46.
Processing Note
In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, James Howard wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.