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Set of photographs including employees at Vegas Village Thriftmart and Denton Drug

Date

1967

Archival Collection

Description

Photographer's notations: Employees at Vegas Village Thriftmart, Denton Drug, For Special Negro History issue of Voice, 3-30-67. Some photos from this set were previously online with the digital ID pho022096.

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Grant Application to the Nevada Humanities Committee, circa 1984

Date

1983 to 1985

Description

Grant Application to the Nevada Humanities Committee, Inc. for the Nevada Student Conference on the Holocaust and Human Rights.

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Eckert, Donald L., 1953-

Donald L. Eckert was born on June 22, 1953 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was an assistant food director at the Barbary Coast Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Person

Transcript of interview with Stanley Schwartz by Carol Schwartz, March 1, 1980

Date

1980-03-01

Description

Interview with Stanley Schwartz by Carol Schwartz on March 1, 1980. Stanley talks about coming to Las Vegas in 1951 to open a clothing business on Main Street, Schwartz Brothers Clothing. He compares the business district of the 1950s to the district in 1980, and advertising opportunities in the newspapers and on the radio. Schwartz talks about suit styles and changing preferences of buyers, and moving the store to Second Street, then Fremont Street, then to Maryland Square Shopping Center. In 1970, he changed the focus of the clothing store to "big and tall" and talks about the importance of customer service in retaining customers. He mentions Al Benedict and Herb Tobman as people he admired.

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