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Binion's Horseshoe Club and Benny Binion's personal photographs, approximately 1940 to 1985
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Binion’s Horseshoe Club Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box SH-065, Box SH-032
Archival Component
"To Mom on her Birthday" note, Salvation Army certificate for Harold Stocker, Hillsway certificate for Maybe Stocker, approximately 1967 to 1978
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Stocker Family Papers
Box/Folder: Box 2
Archival Component
Transcript of interview with Daryl Morris by Barbara Tabach, February 16, 2016
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Archival Collection
Description
Daryl Morris discusses growing up in Las Vegas and his love of acting.
Daryl Morris is a native of Las Vegas. Born in 1961, he is one of three sons born to Paula and Bobby Morris. He recalls his childhood of the 1960s and 1970s with great fondness of the fast friendships formed within the Jewish community. His day job is in insurance, but his great love is for acting. He tells of being smitten at the age of 11 and taking acting lessons as a youngster and then later studying with actor Jeff Goldblum. He has an impressive list of films in which he has appeared, including the opening scene of Mall Cop 2. He enjoys voice-over acting and teaching acting classes. He also tells about his Navy service, attending UNLV, and coming to settle in Las Vegas-the place he calls home. Daryl also participated in the January 31, 2016, Growing Up Jewish in Las Vegas panel discussion for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project.
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Photograph of the outside view of Binion's Horseshoe Parking Garage (Las Vegas), 1962
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Archival Collection
Description
Facade of the Horseshoe parking garage. Stamped on original: "Las Vegas New Bureau - Las Vegas, Nevada. Convention Center - Photographers - Don English. Jerry Abbott. Joe Buck. Milt Palmer. John Cook."
Site Name: Horseshoe Club
Address: 128 East Fremont Street
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Photograph of a quarter horse sale on Fremont Street (Las Vegas), April 17, 1968
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Archival Collection
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Horse sale on Fremont Street at night, showing the neon of the Mint, Horseshoe, and Hotel Fremont, all of which make up part of Glitter Gulch. Stamped on original: "Allen Photographers, Inc. Post Office Box 4253 Las Vegas, Nevada 89106."
Site Name: Fremont Street
Address: Fremont street, Las Vegas, NV
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Photograph of the Horseshoe Hotel & Casino at night (Las Vegas), 1960s
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Archival Collection
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Night view of the Horseshoe Hotel and Casino. Stamped on original: "Jay Florian Mitchell. Photographer. 614 So. 6th DU 4-5148 Las Vegas, Nevada. Douglass Studio, Inc. 614 South Sixth. Dudley 4-5148. Las Vegas, Nevada."
Site Name: Horseshoe Club
Address: 128 East Fremont Street
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Transcript of interview with Jim Marsh by Claytee D. White, June 5, 2012
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Archival Collection
Description
Jim Marsh in Denver, Colorado. Father was the chief for the Colorado Patrol. Mother lived in Nebraska. Jim split time in both places while growing up. He was a service member of the Army and once getting out of the service he started his work with his father at a Ford dealership. Jim went on to work and own dealership in several different areas, Colorado, California, New Mexico, and Washington states before arriving in Las Vegas, NV in 1971. Once arriving in Las Vegas Marsh purchased a dealership called American Auto Mart. Around 1976 Jim Marsh bought the Santa Fe Saloon along with the twenty lots surrounding it for 12,500. This was his first experience in the gaming industry Marsh was the only dealership in the world for 25 years to have a gaming license in a new-car dealership. Marsh discovered interest in Belmont when there was a lone resident Rose Walter. The two bartered and Jim gained land in Belmont and went on to build a bar and church for the town. Marsh eventually went on to own the Skyline Casino. Jim Marsh founded the Nevada Auto Auction in 1987 on Las Vegas Boulevard South Eventually sold it and used the investment to build the Longstreet Casino. Marsh was' also a member of business organizations, Better Business Bureau and The Red Cross Marsh has been a member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board for at least 25 years. Tonopah is another location that Marsh has invested in. After leasing the gaming at the Mizpah Hotel to later buying the Valley Bank building and moving the gaming from Mizpah. It is still successful today. He also purchased the Tonopah Station House which is a hotel bar, and restaurant; along with owning the grocery store Scolari's next-door. Tonopah has proved to be a very good investment for Jim Marsh.
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Photograph of Teddy Jane and Benny Binion standing in front of their house, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Archival Collection
Description
A photograph of Teddy Jane and Benny Binion standing in front of their house, Las Vegas, Nevada in August of 1943.
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Photograph of Teddy Jane and unidentified woman in front of a garden, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Archival Collection
Description
Teddy Jane Binion (right) stands with an unidentified woman (left) in a garden.
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Photograph of three people standing with their cars, Las Vegas (Nev.)
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Archival Collection
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Two unidentified women and a man (that could possibly be Binion's family members) stand in front of their cars on a ranch.
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