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Transcript of interview with Michael J. Montandon by Stefani Evans and Claytee D. White, September 22 & October 4, 2016
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Mike Montandon, former Arizonan and former three-term mayor of the City of North Las Vegas (1997-2009), is a natural storyteller. As he recalls municipal governance during a period of record-breaking growth, he talks of forming relationships with developers, legislators, and other municipalities; he speaks to land use, open space, parks, trails, conservation and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act (SNPLMA). He shares histories and stories of the Becker family's role in developing Clark County, of the Combs family's North Las Vegas pig farm; of the drama that routinely characterized BLM land auctions, and of why North Las Vegas spent millions of dollars to build its own sewage treatment plant. The guy who never ran for office in high school or college moved to North Las Vegas in 1992 and four years later was elected as mayor of one of the nation's fastest-growing cities. He ran because he realized the City was populated with people just l
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David Ober interview, October 11, 2017: transcript
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Tucson, Arizona, native David Ober moved to Las Vegas twice. He arrived reluctantly the first time in 1978 with his parents as a high-school student, when his father, Hal Ober, came to Las Vegas to begin building and marketing the U.S. Home (now Lennar) brand. While the elder Ober soon left U.S. Home to open his own home-building business, R.A. Homes, his youngest child left Las Vegas shortly after his high school graduation to return to his native Tucson, follow in the footsteps of his siblings, and attend the University of Arizona. After graduating from the University of Arizona David Ober opened his own mortgage company and began building a life in Phoenix. In the late 1980s he agreed to take a large pay cut, return to Las Vegas, and learn his father's business from the ground up. At the time, Hal Ober was developing his award-winning, master-planned community, Desert Shores. David Ober, the youngest of the five children of Hal and D'Vorre (Dee) Ober, agreed to participate in the
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Architectural drawings of residential home in Las Vegas, Nevada, floor plan and three elevations, 1955
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Floor plan with three different front exterior elevations for a ranch-style residential home in the Greater Las Vegas development in Las Vegas, Nevada. Floor plan is labeled "Plan 10," and elevations are labeled A, B and C.
Site Name: Greater Las Vegas
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Architectural drawings of residential home in Las Vegas, Nevada, floor plan and three elevations, 1955
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Floor plan with three different front exterior elevations for a ranch-style residential home in the Greater Las Vegas development in Las Vegas, Nevada. Floor plan is labeled "Plan 11," and elevations are labeled A,B and C.
Site Name: Greater Las Vegas
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Architectural drawing of residential home in Las Vegas, Nevada, exterior elevations, 1955
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Front, rear, left and right exterior elevations of a ranch-style residential home in the Greater Las Vegas development in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Site Name: Greater Las Vegas
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Architectural drawings of residential home in Las Vegas, Nevada, exterior elevations, 1955
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Archival Collection
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Front, rear, left and right exterior elevations of a ranch-style residential home in the Greater Las Vegas development in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Site Name: Greater Las Vegas
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Architectural drawings of residential home in Las Vegas, Nevada, exterior elevations, 1955
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Two different sets of drawings of front, rear, left and right exterior elevations of a ranch-style residential home in the Greater Las Vegas development in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Site Name: Greater Las Vegas
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Architectural drawings of residential home in Las Vegas, Nevada, exterior elevations, 1955
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Archival Collection
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Front, rear, left and right exterior elevations of a ranch-style residential home in the Greater Las Vegas development in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Site Name: Greater Las Vegas
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