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Plans for the construction of the Showboat Hotel Casino in Atlantic City from 1985. John A. Martin, structural engineer; Albert A. Hellman, mechanical engineer; Norman A. Cohen, electrical engineer.
Site Name: Showboat Hotel and Casino (Atlantic City)
Address: 801 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ
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Gwendolyn K. Walker arrived in North Las Vegas in 1962 from Houston, Texas, as a five-year-old with her parents, two brothers, and her cousins. The Walker family at first moved to a rented house on D Street, and Gwen attended Kit Carson Elementary School for first grade. Her mother enrolled in nursing school, so she sent Gwen back to Delhi, Louisiana, to be raised by her grandmother. In Delhi Gwen picked cotton with her aunt while she was in the second grade. Gwen returned to North Las Vegas to live with her mother and complete elementary school at Jo Mackey before matriculating to J. D. Smith Elementary School for junior high school and then to Clark High School. Later she attended UNLV. Gwen and her mother joined Saint James Catholic Church at H Street and Washington Avenue, but after she returned from Delhi she joined Second Baptist Church, where she became close with a cohort of friends that remained strong even as she experienced racism and bullying and love for the first time.
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Newspaper clipping, At NYC Convention, The Las Vegas Sun, August 13, 1965; Photograph of Rose Rich, Fran Cohen and Neva Schwartz at banquet honoring Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Nelson Rockefeller; Photograph of Lillian Heller, Ella Wohl, Fran Cohen, Ethel Lasobnick, Rose Rich and Reva Schwartz at Region Award Party; Photograph of Hadassah members boarding TWA flight
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