Culinary Union workers strike at the Frontier Hotel and Casino in August of 1991. Strikers are seen with signs marching in a parking lot. The American flag is shown multiple times, along with a portable restroom with a multiple protesting sign, including one depicting Margaret Elardi. Police officers are also seen on site. The Frontier marquee is depicted and reads: "Welcome Boilermakers, players bar 10am to 10pm, boilermakers 50 cents, bottle beer 25 cents."Arrangement note: Series I. Demonstrations, Subseries I.A. Frontier Strike Site name: Frontier Hotel and Casino
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Oral history interview with Dennis Ortwein conducted by Claytee D. White on May 06, 2009 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Ortwein discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956 and his various careers as an elementary school teacher, a junior high teacher, and an elementary school principal. He also discusses working at a teacher's college in Nigeria, being a church choir director, and his experience as a singer. He then talks about school integration in Las Vegas and above-ground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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