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Photographs of NASCAR Cafe signs, Las Vegas (Nev.), 2002
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Site name: Sahara Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Site address: 2535 S Las Vegas Blvd
Sign details: Located in Sahara casino's Sahara Ave. side
Sign condition: Structure 5 Surface 5 Lighting 5
Sign form: Fascia
Sign - type of display: Neon; Incandescent; Backlit
Sign - media: Steel; Plastic
Sign - non-neon treatments: Graphics; Paint
Sign animation: Chasing, flashing, oscillating
Sign manufacturer: Mikhon Lighting and Sign
Sign - date of installation: 2000
Surveyor: Joshua Cannaday
Survey - date completed: 2002
Sign keywords: Chasing; Flashing; Oscillating; Fascia; Neon; Incandescent; Backlit; Steel; Plastic; Graphics; Paint
Mixed Content
Photographs of Bally's signs, Las Vegas (Nev.), 2002
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Site name: Bally's Las Vegas
Site address: 3645 S Las Vegas Blvd
Sign owner: Park Place Entertainment
Sign form: Pylon; Fascia; Porte-cochère
Sign - type of display: Neon; Incandescent; Backlit
Sign - media: Steel; Plastic
Sign - non-neon treatments: Graphics; Paint
Sign animation: Chasing, flashing, oscillating
Surveyor: Joshua Cannaday
Survey - date completed: 2002
Sign keywords: Chasing; Flashing; Oscillating; Pylon; Fascia; Porte-cochère; Neon; Incandescent; Backlit; Steel; Plastic; Paint; Graphics
Mixed Content
Postcard of a house made of glass bottles, Tonopah, (Nev.), 1900-1920
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Site Name: Peck's Bottle House (Tonopah, Nev.)
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Photograph of men standing in front of Justice of the Peace and Recorder office, Round Mountain (Nev.), early 1900s
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Site Name: Office of Justice of the Peace (Round Mountain, Nev.)
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Photograph of Frontier club at night, Las Vegas, circa mid 1930s to early 1950s
Date
Archival Collection
Description
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Transcript of interview with Brad Nelson by Stefani Evans, October 30, 2017
Date
Archival Collection
Description
In 1984, with the advice of his father ringing in his ears, Brad Nelson uprooted his wife and two children from their Denver home and moved them to Henderson, Nevada, where he would begin a new adventure in shaping the new master-planned community of Green Valley with Mark Fine and American Nevada Corporation (ANC). Nelson, lifelong Nebraskan and only child of his parents, arrived armed with a Bachelor's degree in landscape architecture with urban planning option, a Master's degree in urban planning, and fifteen years of planning and executive experience with the national firm of Harmon, O'Donnell and Henniger Planning Consultants. He arrived in time to plan Green Valley's first village, the Village of Silver Spring. By the time he left ANC for Lake Las Vegas in 1999, his work was done and most large parcels had been sold. As Nelson puts it, by 1999 ANC was "out of land, and I'm a land guy." Lake Las Vegas had plenty of undeveloped land, so "land guy" Nelson a chief operating officer
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Video interview with Rose Hamilton, Carolyn Haywood, Marilyn Armstrong, Hannah Johnson, Bobbie Gilmore and Delores "Dodi" Johnson, January 20, 2007
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Oral history conversation with Rose Hamilton, Carolyn Haywood, Marilyn Armstrong, Hannah Johnson, Bobbie Gilmore and Delores (Dodi) Johnson. The group shares memories of how they and their families came to live in Las Vegas during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Ken Frejlach oral history interview
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Abstract
Oral history interview with Ken Frejlach conducted by Chuck Williams on January 21, 2015 for the Friends of Red Rock Canyon in Nevada Oral History Project. Frejlach begins the interview by talking about his family life and how they started working on Oliver Ranch near Blue Diamond, Nevada. He describes their duties while working and the Carole Lombard plane crash site. Frejlach also talks about his mother's medical illness. He talks about his move the town of Blue Diamond, and describes his time there attending school. Lastly, he speaks more about the Oliver Ranch property.
Archival Collection
Photograph of the Westerner Gambling House (Las Vegas), circa 1950s
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Color Photograph of the facade of the Westerner Gambling House.
Site Name: Westerner
Address: 23 Fremont Street
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Film transparency of street view of Fremont Street (Las Vegas), circa 1932
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Fremont Street in the 1930s.
Site Name: Fremont Street
Address: Fremont street, Las Vegas, NV
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