Oral history interview with Judith Lee Johnson Jones conducted by Claytee D. White on February 22, 2007 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Johnson Jones discusses winning a contest that allowed her to be a showgirl at the Sands Hotel and Casino when she was seventeen, receiving a college degree in Houston, Texas, and performing in the Elvis movie “Viva Las Vegas.” She also talks about her twenty-nine-year career in education.
Oral history interview with Mazie Martin Jones conducted by Jane P. Kowalewski on November 03, 1978 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Jones discusses her father, Doctor Royce Martin, the first doctor to own a private practice in Las Vegas, Nevada. Jones then explains how her father first arrived in Southern Nevada and his different investments in real estate, hospitals, and hotels. She goes on to share her father’s hotel pursuits after retiring from medicine in the late 1940s.
Oral history interview with Todd Jones conducted by Claytee White on January 07, 2010 for the Voices of the Historic John S. Park neighborhood Oral History Project. Jones discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1991 to become a professor of philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and buying a home in the John S. Park Neighborhood.
Oral history interview with Willie, James, and Jamet Jones conducted by Robbin McLaurin on March 05, 1980 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. The Jones’ discuss discrimination and the limited jobs that the hotel industry offered to black people. They then discuss the importance of the black community and how Las Vegas, Nevada changed throughout the years.
Oral history interview with Marie Jordan conducted by Danny Budak on March 20, 1978 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Jordan discusses her personal perspective of life in Nevada, being a local resident for twenty years, family life, and changes that she has witnessed in the Las Vegas, Nevada Valley.
Oral history interview with Marie Jordan conducted by Edward Gentry on February 27, 1981 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Jordan discusses the social differences between Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada, particularly in the ways schools were segregated. Jordan also discusses the “Whites Only” policy on the Las Vegas Strip.
Oral history interview with Odell Jordan conducted by Stephen Motley on March 15, 1978 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Jordan discusses his job history and the early hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada. He specifically talks about his life as a hotelman and job as a health inspector.
Oral history interview with Katherine M. Joseph conducted by Claytee D. White on October 25, 2004 and September 05, 2007 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. Joseph discusses dancing in Paris, France with Josephine Baker and working at the Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino during its heyday. Joseph also discusses race segregation in Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1950s and of the burgeoning and bustling African-American communities and neighborhoods.
Oral history interview with Madeline Kadin conducted by Kathy Mandel on March 08, 1975 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Kadin discusses atomic testing and ranch life in Las Vegas, Nevada. She also explains the history of Helldorado and how it has changed over the years.
Oral history interview with Yorgo Kagafas conducted by Claytee White on January 14, 2010 for the Voices of the Historic John S. Park Neighborhood Oral History Projects. Kagafas discusses becoming an urban planner for the City of Las Vegas, Nevada in 1999 and implementing the neighborhood planning process.