Oral history interview with Vernon Bostick conducted by Robert McCracken on January 19-20, 2000 and February 04, 2000 for the Women's Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN) Las Vegas Women Oral History Project. Bostick opens his interviews by discussing his family history and upbringing in a company-owned town in Colorado. Bostick talks extensively about his life in Colorado, his interest in nature, and working on his family ranch. He then describes his forestry management job for the state of Washington. Bostick discusses how his work eventually took him out West, and why he opened a consulting firm to facilitate relations between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and ranchers. He then talks about how his son's success working at the Nevada Test Site convinced him to take a job there in the 1960s. Bostick then discusses a variety of environmental issues and law specific to Las Vegas, Nevada. Bostick ends his interview discussing his opinions about environmental legislation and management.
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Oral history interview with Myron E. Leavitt Sr. conducted by Monique E. Kimball on September 28, 1975, October 26, 1975, and December 04, 1975 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Leavitt discusses growing up in Bunkerville, Nevada in 1895. He also describes working as a freight driver in the early 1900s. Leavitt later describes Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1920s and shares his reaction upon arrival.
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Oral history interview with Angela Clarke conducted by Lisa Gioia-Acres on October 03, 2008 for the Heart to Heart Oral History Project. In this interview Dr. Angela Clarke recounts moving to Las Vegas, Nevada to practice as a board-certified family practitioner. She speaks about her busy schedule in private practice and the various boards and committees she served on at several area hospitals.
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Oral history interview with Stella Kalaoram conducted by Kristel Peralta and Cecilia Winchell on August 2, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project.
Stella Kalaoram discusses her childhood in Singapore, the occupations and ethnic diversity of her family, and the four languages she speaks: English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil. She shares her immigration journey to the United States with her husband, from Singapore to San Bernardino, California in 1990, and their move to Las Vegas in 2000. Stella also shares her employment experiences as a dental assistant, a housekeeper for the Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino, and as a shop steward for the Culinary Workers Union. She also talks about contracting COVID-19 and her hospital experience, her family's differing religious faiths, and her translation work to empower the Asian-American community.
Subjects discussed include: insurance benefits; Volunteer Organizer (VO); mask mandates; vaccine hesitancy; food traditions; language barriers; Baba and Nyonya cultures.
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Oral history interview with Roy and Lucina Waite conducted by Bernard Timberg on January 15, 1974 and January 30, 1974 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. The Waites' discuss life in Las Vegas, Nevada when it was primarily a mining town, and how much the people, community, and environment changed as the population grew.
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Oral history interviews with Cathren J. Holder conducted by Claytee D. White on June 4 and 15, 1996 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Holder talks about her childhood and education in Fordyce, Arkansas, her move to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1952, and her first experience of living in a two room shack with her older brother and his family. She then discusses her work, marriage, places she shopped, and changes in the Westside since her arrival.
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Oral history interview with Alma Athella Huffman conducted by R. A. Grau on March 2, 1972 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. This interview covers the history of Southern Nevada. Huffman also offers an in-depth description of early life in Bunkerville, Nevada. Huffman lastly discusses being a Justice of the Peace.
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