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Transcript of interview with Ronald "Ron" Lurie by Stefani Evans and Claytee D. White, October 17, 2016 and November 10, 2016

Date

2016-10-17
2016-11-10

Archival Collection

Description

Ron Lurie is a product of Las Vegas. Ron Lurie knows Las Vegas. The Los Angeles native arrived in Las Vegas with his parents when he was twelve years old; his father opened Market Town next to White Cross Drug Store. Lurie graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1958 and attended Nevada Southern, where he played baseball and basketball before joining the United States Army Reserves. Returning from training, he began working at a new store, Fantastic Fair. Soon the owner, builder Lloyd Whaley, asked him to manage a new Fantastic Fair. At 24 years of age, he managed the entire Fantastic Fair store, which later became Wonder World. Over time, Lurie would manage three of the four Wonder World stores. In this interview, the former mayor of the City of Las Vegas and former Las Vegas City Council member talks about running for City council because he wanted more parks and ball fields downtown and about his political career, which coincided with the years of explosive growth in the 1970s and 1980s. The current vice president and general manager of Arizona Charlie's also v discusses his careers in the grocery business and in gaming; he speaks to giving back to the community and the changing demography of the area surrounding Arizona Charlie's; he talks of the ways Steve Wynn pioneered an aura of glamour that helped to upgrade Downtown Las Vegas; he recalls the challenges of public safety, regional transportation, flood control, and the Monorail and of civic dreams of a magnetic levitation train that would connect Downtown Las Vegas to Cashman Field. He remembers his parents and his wife; he talks about his children, and he shares vignettes of, among many others, Ernie Becker IV, Bill Briare, Al Levy, Steve Miller, and Bob Stupak. Throughout, Mayor Lurie especially beams when he talks about his family, his friends, his work, Las Vegas, the Boys and Girls Clubs, and baseball. This man loves baseball.

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City Council: Wayne Bunker, Al Levy, Mayor Bill Briare, Bob Nolen, and Ron Lurie, 1985

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Las Vegas, Nevada Elected Officials Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00298
Collection Name: Las Vegas, Nevada Elected Officials Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 02

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City Council: Arnie Adamsen, Wayne Bunker, Mayor Ron Lurie, Bob Nolen, and Steve Miller, 1987

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Las Vegas, Nevada Elected Officials Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00298
Collection Name: Las Vegas, Nevada Elected Officials Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 02

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Groundbreaking for the Senior Citizens Center, including Oran K. Gragson, Ron Lurie, and Aaron Williams, approximately 1960-1969

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Archival Collection

Oran K. Gragson Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00310
Collection Name: Oran K. Gragson Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 01

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Land auction re-enactment; includes John Cahlan, Bill Briare, and Ron Lurie, 1980 May 15

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File

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Florence Lee Jones Cahlan Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00045
Collection Name: Florence Lee Jones Cahlan Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 02

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Photograph of presentation by Steven Kwon & members of the Korean association of Las Vegas of their directory to councilmen. Left to right: Paul Christensen, Ron Lurie & Al Levy, October 19, 1983

Description

Label on back: Presentation by Steven Kwon & members of the Korean association of Las Vegas of their directory to councilmen. Left to right: Paul Christensen, Ron Lurie & Al Levy, October 19, 1983