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Palacios, Craig Sean
Craig Palacios was born on November 1, 1971 and grew up in the Paradise Palms neighborhood in Las Vegas, Nevada. His family lived close to him and he remembers playing with his relatives up and down the Maryland Parkway Corridor. His first job was in construction where he poured and finished concrete. His talents
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Transcript of interview with Jerry Fox by Barbara Tabach, November 12, 2014
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Interview with Jerry Fox by Barbara Tabach on November 12, 2014. In this interview, Fox discusses his father's restaurant, Foxy's Delicatessen, which opened on the Las Vegas Strip in the 1950s, and his own business endeavors including the Tinder Box and an embroidery business.
Jerry Fox grew up in Los Angeles until his family moved to Las Vegas in February 1955, where his father opened Foxy's Delicatessen, the city's first Jewish deli. Jerry would go on to follow in his father's entrepreneurial footsteps, operating several ventures across different industries, including his own restaurant, Foxy Dog. Jerry sold Foxy Dog in 1975 after going through a divorce, the same year that Foxy's Deli closed.
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Mackey, Maureen, Reverend, 1943-2014
Maureen Elise Mackey was born in October of 1943 in Teaneck, New Jersey. She was a member of the Sisters of St. Mary, and later earned her bachelor’s degree and became a high school science teacher. After serving one of several missions to the Congo, she entered medical school in 1971 at the University of Texas. After several years as a respected physiatrist in Las Vegas, Nevada, Mackey returned to school in 1999 to earn her Masters of Divinity degree at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California.
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Eaton, Bruce M., 1904-1985
Bruce Eaton was born December 20, 1904 in Toronto, Kansas. His family moved to various places in the Midwest of the United States before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in June of 1932. He held jobs in truck driving, construction for the Hoover (Boulder) Dam, a superintendent for Clark County School District, and a congressional member of Boulder City, Nevada. Eaton passed away September of 1985.
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Richert, Paul Jerome, 1911-1980
Paul Jerome Richert was born on February 11, 1911 in Chicago, Illinois. He married Pamela Dorothy Furmage. Richert was a chemist for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. He later left chemistry and worked as an educator, becoming an assistant principal in the Clark County School District.
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Paul J. Richert oral history interview, 1976 March 29. OH-01567. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Schwartz, Stanley
Schwartz was born on May 13, 1926 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He attended Colorado Military School in Denver, Colorado and the University of Southern California. He left the university without a degree and went into the merchant tailoring business in Los Angeles, California. After that business went bankrupt, he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada with his brother, Seymour Schwartz, around 1951 and started Schwartz Brothers Clothing.
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Clark County School District superintendent research files, Peabody Governor's Study of Education in Nevada, "The Urbanization of the Clark County School District" dissertation, 1999-2007
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Patrick W. Carlton Papers on the Oral History of the Public School Principalship Project
Box/Folder: Box 04
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