Oral history interview with Bill Richardson conducted by Gretchen Schroeder on May 10, 2008 for the History of Blue Diamond Village in Nevada Oral History Project. In this interview, Richardson discusses living in Nelson, Nevada and later moving to Blue Diamond Village, Nevada where his father worked in the mines. He describes education in the Village and the homes that were built there. Later, Richardson talks about his father’s lumberyard, which received lumber from Mount Charleston, and Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1940s. Lastly, he describes his employment at the Nevada Test Site as a forklift operator.
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Oral history interview with Betty West conducted by Claytee D. White on May 10, 2008 for the History of Blue Diamond Village in Nevada Oral History Project. In this interview, West discusses growing up in Blue Diamond, Nevada. She describes the work her father, Mark West, did at the mines and recalls the Village where mine workers and their families lived in the 1950s. West discusses her employment at the Sahara Hotel in the 1960s as a slot girl and later as a cocktail waitress. Lastly, West talks about the changes in Blue Diamond, and eventually moving to Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Oral history interview with Alex X. Porter conducted by Claytee D. White on April 16, 2022 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: A Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Porter mainly discusses his membership of and devout role in the Nation of Islam. He discusses how he became involved with the religion after trying to enact change in the Black community through the NAACP. He discusses how his stance on education sets him apart from the majority of the Black community; he believes that a college degree is not necessary to teach intellectual topics to young people. Porter is active in the Las Vegas Black community as either a member or supporter of the Minister's Alliance, Shepherd's Breakfast, NAACP, Black Lives Matter, and the Nation of Islam.
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American mineral miner
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Looking northwest through the remains of St. Thomas towards the site of the Lost City
Transcribed Notes: Bureau of Reclamation typed notes appended to back of photo: Townsite of St. Thomas, Nevada--Moapa Valley Project--Nevada A view of a portion of the townsite of St. Thomas, Nevada, settled by the Mormons in 1865, during a period of low water elevation in Lake Mead, above Hoover Dam. The town was first covered by Lake Mead in June 1938.
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Looking southeast through the remains of Saint Thomas with Lake Mead in the background.
Transcribed Notes: Bureau of Reclamation typed notes appended to back of photo: Townsite of St. Thomas, Nevada--Moapa Valley Project--Nevada A view of a portion of the townsite of St. Thomas, Nevada, settled by the Mormons in 1865, during a period of low water elevation in Lake Mead, above Hoover Dam. The town was first covered by Lake Mead in June 1938.
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Nelda Powell Robinson was born in Kingsville, Texas in 1915, the daughter of Rudell Powell and Allie Robinson. She married Charles Wayne Cole in 1938. After Charles Cole died in 1970, Nelda Cole moved to Nevada where she met and later married Joseph Baran in 1980.
Nelda Cole died on October 3, 1987 in Overton, Nevada.
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Genealogy files about "Nelda Cole" and "Nelda Robinson." Accessed on Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org
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Relda Whitney Leavitt was born in Saint Thomas, Nevada on April 3, 1917 to Stowell Edward Whitney and Anna Isabel Frehner. She married Len R. Leavitt on August 17, 1938. They had one son, Len Randall Leavitt in 1939. Relda Leavitt died on March 12, 1997.
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Genealogy files about "Relda Whitney."Accessed on March 31, 2020 on FamilySearch.org.
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Oral history interview with David L. Stevenson conducted by Charles Jackson on February 26, 1979 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Stevenson discusses his upbringing in Las Vegas, Nevada. Stevenson discusses his early education and later working at chemical plants in Henderson, Nevada during his teens. Stevenson continues by recalling his career as a chemist at the Nevada Test Site, the purpose of the nuclear tests he was involved in, and the fallout that was carried across the country due to the testing. He also describes the growth of Las Vegas and its economy. Finally, Stevenson talks about being a real estate agent in Las Vegas.
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