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Wilma Noyes oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Wilma Noyes conducted by Claytee D. White on April 11, 2007 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Noyes discusses her personal history and life in Las Vegas, Nevada from the 1920s onward. She describes moving to Las Vegas with her family in 1921 after her father got a job working for Union Pacific Railroad Company. Noyes explains how the railroad provided housing to its workers and what life was like in that housing. Noyes discusses attending the first schools in Las Vegas, one of them having had Maude Frazier as its principal. Noyes then describes what young people did for entertainment in Las Vegas, including dancing and going to movie theaters. Lastly, she discusses the history of the casinos and how the city has changed.
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Photograph of an Amtrak train, Las Vegas, 1979
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Photograph of the new freeway, North Las Vegas, circa early 1970s
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Photograph of railroad reproduction, Las Vegas, 1980
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Photograph of box car, Ralston (Nev.), 1906-1928
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People gathered on the roadside near railroad tracks: photographic slide
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From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). Photo is out out focus.
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People gathered on railroad tracks: photographic slide
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From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352).
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Photograph of an Amtrak train, Las Vegas, October 28, 1979
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View of some fields and some railroad tracks: photographic slide
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From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). In the distance of the picture we see some people, cars, and an American Flag.
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People outdoors near railroad tracks with tents and signs: photographic slide
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From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). The tents have signs and posters on them. There is an "[Information?] poster on the tent that has some papers attached to it. Below it, there is a poster that says, "CHRISTIAN CHURCHES SPEAK".
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