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Sketch of a house, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1950-1969
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Sketch of a house, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1950-1969
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Sketch of a Building, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1950-1969
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Sketch of Fun-Land Amusement Park, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1950-1955
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Sketch of an automotive center, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1950-1969
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Sketch of apparel shop, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1950-1969
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Photographic postcard of Badwater Basin, Death Valley (Calif.), 1950-1969
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Programs, organizational records, and reports relating to the Governor's Conference on Women.
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Governor's Conference on Women Records
Box/Folder: Box 01
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Transcript of interview with Elaine Cali McNamara by Claytee White and Stefani Evans, October 5, 2016
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This ability to greet each day with a challenge has laid the foundation for a long history of success for Elaine McNamara as she has navigated through local beauty pageants, an illustrious real estate career, serving on the Las Vegas-Clark County Library board during their decade of expansion to authorship. Her story of resilience starts when she became ill at approximately seven or eight with erythema nodosum that impeded her ability to walk for five months when she started collecting pictures of movie stars. Her favorite movies were any of Roy Rogers, Abbott and Costello, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Her family moved to Las Vegas, where she attended Las Vegas High School as well as UNLV majoring in elementary education and minoring in language arts. While she attended high school, she studied modeling in the evenings to help overcome her shyness and to become more outgoing. Becoming more involved with local and state beauty pageants, she met the likes of Phyllis Diller, Natalie Wood,
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Louis Yoxen interview, 2003: transcript
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Yoxen begins her interview by discussing how she first arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada to work for the U.S. State Department in the 1950s. She then describes her childhood in Alabama, competing in the Miss America pageant, and her life in Miami, Florida. Yoxen also discusses living in North Africa and Berlin, Germany while working for the State Department as a clerk. She then talks about moving around with her sister and her family, and eventually coming to Las Vegas. She describes what Las Vegas was like in the 1950s. Yoxen ends her interview with a discussion on her family, her husband's work, and their recreational activities.
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