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Transcript of interview with Milton I. Schwartz by Claytee White, May 4, 2004
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Archival Collection
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In this interview, Milton Schwartz discusses his life in Las Vegas and his business investments. He worked at the Flamingo Hotel right after World War II, and he started Valley Hospital as an investor in 1970. Schwartz has a Hebrew academy named after him in Israel, and owned the Yellow-Checker-Star Cab Company. He was active in the Republican Party.
Milton I. Schwartz was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He enlisted in the Army the day after Pearl Harbor (age 20) and did a five year stint in the Pacific as a repeater specialist. After the war he returned to his job as a refrigeration mechanic in Brooklyn and was soon offered a job out in Las Vegas at the Flamingo Hotel, which was owned by Bugsy Siegel. After three months in Las Vegas, during which time he had several conversations over dinner with Beldon Cattleman, Milton returned to New York to work with his father in the fixture business. After ten years he sold that business and bought into Design Equipment Construction, which brought him back to Las Vegas. Milton started or bought many businesses over the years, but the one he's proudest of is Valley Hospital. He and his partners brought the first medical helicopters into Nevada and he feels that many lives were saved because of that. He also invested in Yellow-Checker-Star Cab Company, which he still owns. Two on-going concerns that are important to Milton are his involvement with the Republican Party and the Milton I. Schwartz Hebrew Academy in Israel. Of the many awards and plaques he has earned over the decades, he is proudest of the birthday acknowledgements from the Academy. He believes strongly that the most important achievements of his life revolve around his religion and the children being educated in it. Milton shares many stories, facts, descriptions, and anecdotes about Las Vegas in the decades since 1946. He built a house in the Scotch 80's, contributes to UNLV, and approves of city growth and the proposed changes in the downtown area. He has contributed much to the growth and stability of the Las Vegas valley.
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Audio clip from interview with Herb Tobman by Deborah Fischer, March 13, 1981
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Archival Collection
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Part of an interview with Herb Tobman on March 13, 1981. In this clip, Tobman discusses moving to Las Vegas, employment, and the gambling industry.
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Transcript of Interview with Barbara Kirkland
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Archival Collection
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On a sunny day in 1946, the train from Shreveport, Louisiana, stopped at The Plaza hotel in downtown Las Vegas like it always did. But on this particular day, Atha Toliver and her only child, twelve-year-old Barbara, stepped off the train and onto the dusty Western street of Fremont. Narrator Barbara Bates Kirkland recalls that event and living in Las Vegas for most of the next seven decades during this 2004 interview. Like many others who migrated from the South, Barbara Kirkland’s mother would find employment as a maid. A friend who already lived in Las Vegas had told her of the good paying jobs as private maid. So Atha who was determined that her daughter would get an education and a finer future saw this as her opportunity to achieve this for her daughter. Later, the entrepreneurial and creative mother opened Eva’s Flower Basket, a floral shop that Barbara operates in her retirement from teaching. Barbara returned to Louisiana for her senior year in high school, attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, and then returned to Las Vegas to teach first grade at Westside School. Barbara was active in the community, was a founding member of Les Femmes Douze, involved with Zion United Methodist Church and was friends with many of the early African American community leaders at the time. She talks about these, describes various neighborhoods where she lived and about raising her own two children in Las Vegas. Barbara was a founding member of Les Femmes Douze. AKA/Akateens.
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Audio recording clip from an interview with Hazel Geran
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Archival Collection
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Part of an interview with Hazel Geran by Claytee D. White on August 30, 2000. Geran talks about The Cove Hotel and Jackson Hotel on Jackson Street.
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Will Collins, Dacoda Clayton Collins, and Rob Schlegel in the Pride Visionaries float: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Gay Pride 1999 at Sunset Park; Photographer: Dennis McBride; "Pride Visionaries". L-R: Will Collins, Dacoda Clayton Collins; Rob Schlegel.
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Photograph of Aaron Williams presenting a trophy to a group of adults, ca. 1970
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Archival Collection
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Black and white photograph of Aaron Williams (plaid pants) presenting a trophy to a group of four men, ca. 1970. The man at right wears an "A.W. Astros" t-shirt.
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Photograph of youth baseball team "Aaron Williams Astros," ca. 1970
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Archival Collection
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Black and white group photograph of the Aaron Williams youth boys' baseball team. The players wear uniform shirts with the team name "Astros."
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Dave and Marcia Washington: photograph
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Archival Collection
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Color photograph of Dave and Marcia Washington at Dave Washington's retirement party in 2007.
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Photograph of Eddie and Johnie B. Wright at their 50th wedding anniversary, 2007
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Archival Collection
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Color photograph of Eddie and Johnie Wright at the celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary.
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Photograph of Eddie and Johnie Wright's three children, November 7, 1969
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Archival Collection
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Black and white photograph of Rueben Wright (age 7), Jeff Wright (age 10) and Hermina Wright (age 11), 1969.
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