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Handwritten list of stores and businesses owned by Jews in Las Vegas, Nev. in the 1940s, by Michael S. Mack, 2015

Date

2015

Archival Collection

Description

This document is a listing of Jewish-owned businesses in Las Vegas and Southern Nevada across all sectors including retail, restaurants, hotels and gaming, as remembered by Michael Mack.

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Photograph of men dressed in western wear, 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

Standing, back row, L-R: James Bilbray, William "Bill" Galloway, unknown, unknown, unknown; Standing, middle row, L-R: Louis Mack, Bill Mendelson, Moe Sedway, Les Goldring, Nate Mack; Seated, front row, L-R: Dick Saxe, Lester (?) Goldring, Al Schulman, Ira Goldring, unknown, Mike Gordon

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Photograph of Harold Erickson and Hal Tuchman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, circa 1970s

Date

1970 to 1979

Description

Description provided with image: "L-R: Harold Erickson, UNLV Library; member of Las Vegas B'nai B'rith, Hal Tuchman. President of the Las Vegas Nate Mack Lodge of the B'nai B'rith looking over the more than 50 volumes of Judaic literature that the organization has donated to the University of Nevada Las Vegas Library."

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Transcript of interview with Joyce Mack by Barbara Tabach, February 23, 2015

Date

2015-02-23

Archival Collection

Description

In this interview, Joyce Mack discusses meeting her husband, Jerry Mack, in Los Angeles,their early life as a couple, and moving to Las Vegas at the suggestion of Jerry's father, Nate Mack. She discusses how Jerry met Parry Thomas and their banking and real estate investments. Mrs. Mack talks about the opening of the Thomas and Mack Center at UNLV, and the development of the strip hotels, and discusses her children.

Joyce Mack: wife to Jerry Mack and matriarch of one of the most influential families of Las Vegas history. During this oral history conversation, she begins by tracing her family ancestry from Kiev to New York to Omaha and then Los Angeles, where she was born and raised. At a UCLA fraternity party in the early 1940s, a teenage Joyce Rosenberg was swept off her feet by her older brother's friend Jerry Mack. Jerry was from Boulder City, Nevada and had attended school in Las Vegas. In 1946, the couple married and took an extended honeymoon throughout the United States and Cuba. Soon afterwards, Jerry's father Nate Mack, a businessman and real estate developer encouraged the newlyweds to come to Las Vegas. She tells of Jerry sharing his vision of the valley's future. Thus began a successful journey that traverses decades of Las Vegas history and breathtaking growth in which the Macks were active participants and leaders. Joyce recalls the people the first met, who they raised their children side-by-side with and became lasting friends. These people were other Las Vegas pioneers including the Greenspuns and mostly importantly her husband's partnership with Parry Thomas which created the Bank of Las Vegas. It was their partnership she explains that reduced the presence of the mob element. As members of the small Jewish community of the late 1940s, the Macks would participate in the founding of Temple Beth Sholom.

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