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Curtis, Archie, 1941-
Archie Curtis was a local sports enthusiast and blackjack dealer. He discusses athletics in Nevada, and racial discrimination on the strip. He also talks about playing sports and against other schools in Las Vegas, Moapa, Virgin Valley, and Caliente.
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Scott, Arlone
Arlone Scott was born in Delhi, Louisiana. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1951. She worked as a supervisor of maids in a hotel.
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Frost Eglington, Earle, 1890-1981
Earle Eglington was born in 1890 moved to Las Vegas in 1911 and married Olive Lake. The couple remained in Las Vegas until the 1980s, witnessing the dramatic growth of the region. Earle died in 1981.
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Lake-Eglington, Olive, 1895-1992
An early Las Vegas resident, Olive Lake-Eglington (neé Olive Lake) was born in 1895 in California. In 1904, she moved with her family from Ontario, California to Las Vegas, Nevada in a covered wagon. Eglington's father, Robert E. Lake, was a barber and was also involved in the early civic development of young Las Vegas, for which an elementary school was eventually named in his honor. Olive Lake graduated in the first Clark County High School class in 1913, and soon after married Earle Eglington, who had moved to Las Vegas in 1911.
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Ellsworth, Charlotte R. (Charlotte Rowberry), 1912-1998
Weltha Charlotte Rowberry was born in Carston, Albert, Canada on July 11, 1912. She married Elmo Hughes Ellsworth on October 16, 1936 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She worked in Las Vegas as a room reservation manager at the Flamingo Hotel from 1950 to 1967, then the Frontier Hotel from 1969 to 1970. After her husband died, she moved to Reno, Nevada where she worked as the room reservation manager for the MGM Grand Reno. She died in Salt Lake City on July 16, 1998.
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