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Transcript of interview with Barry Becker by Barbara Tabach, June 04, 2014

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Narrator

Becker, Barry

Date

2014-06-04

Description

Barry W. Becker's father was a land developer and real estate broker in the Los Angeles area. Howard Hughes told him to purchase all the land he could in the West Charleston area of Las Vegas, so his father started Becker Enterprises, Incorporated in southern Nevada, and Barry and his family moved here in 1971. Becker Enterprises developed 2,500 to 3,000 acres in the West Charleston area and built Arizona Charlie's Hotel Casino. Barry came to Las Vegas in his mid-twenties and worked on underground work and other projects for Becker Enterprises. After he married, Barry and his wife Sue moved to the West Charleston area. They lived in the Charleston Heights area and eventually moved to Rancho Bel Air.

Digital ID

OH_02084_book

Permalink

http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1x63f81w
Details

Contributor

Contributor: West Charleston Neighborhoods: an Oral History Project of Ward 1

Interviewer

Tabach, Barbara

Subject

Business
Married people
Casinos

Resource Type

Text

Material Type

oral histories (literary works)
typescripts
transcripts

Archival Collection

Barry W. Becker oral history interview

Citation

Barry W. Becker oral history interview, 2014 June 04. OH-02084. [Transcript]. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1x63f81w

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Language

English

Format

application/pdf

AN INTERVIEW WITH BARRY W. BECKER An Oral History Conducted by Barbara Tabach West Charleston Neighborhoods: An Oral History Project of Ward 1 Oral History Research Center at UNLV University Libraries University of Nevada Las Vegas ii ©The West C