Tourism and Conventions are the lifeblood of Las Vegas. Accordingly, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority spends millions of dollars on national advertising to attract tourists and conventioneers. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority also operates the Las Vegas Convention Center, the largest single-level convention facility in the United States with more than 1 million square feet of exhibit space. Shown above in one of the huge convention halls is Fernando Perez, the Sales Manager for the Convention Center. Born in Cuba, Perez has worked in the Hotel-Tourism field for over 23 years in places like Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico and Nevada.

Around the turn of the century, Ramon Sanchez emigrated from Spain to the United States where he became a rancher in Tremonita, New Mexico. Many years later, his son, Cesario, migrated to Liberal, Kansas, to work on the railroad. It was there that his daughter, Marcelina, pictured above, was born and raised and where she eventually met and married her musician husband, Gene Sandusky. In 1941, the Sanduskys moved to Las Vegas where they settled in a new housing tract called Sunrise Acres. Some 45 years later, Mrs. Sandusky stands in her back yard with the original Sunrise Acres community well and water tower looming prominently in the background. Presently, Mrs. Sandusky is working hard to gather the history of that still cohesive neighborhood, one of the earliest in Las Vegas.

From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). Written on sign: "Remember Karen Silkwood Radition -> Cancer".

From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). Written on newspaper: "Reagan OKs Neutron Bomb".

From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). Written on newspaper: "Reagan OKs Neutron Bomb".

From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352)

From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352)