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Map of the city of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, the "Strip", 1957
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Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) Corporate Records
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The Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) Corporate Records (1914-2000) document the history of the Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) and is comprised of photographs of sign production and finished signs, negatives, slides, transparencies, anniversary scrapbooks, and videotapes. The collection also contains meeting minutes, correspondence, price books, drawings, calculations, newspaper and trade magazine articles on YESCO, advertising materials, and oral history interviews and audio recordings of YESCO designers and executives. YESCO is responsible for many of the neon signs in and around Las Vegas, Nevada and Reno, Nevada, as well as other Western states.
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McCurdy, Greg, 1961-
Greg McCurdy is a native Las Vegan who was born February 09, 1961 and raised in West Las Vegas, Nevada with his five siblings. Though he was young at the time, he remembers the turmoil of the late 1960s in Las Vegas and the local Civil Rights Movement.
Growing up, McCurdy loved playing baseball but also mowed lawns and worked at the McDonald's restaurant on Bonanza Street. At the age of 22, in 1983, he joined the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
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Dejong, Michael
Michael DeJong was born March 22, 1969 and grew up in Michigan. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1990 at the age of 21. DeJong graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and entered the casino industry as a pit clerk at The Mirage Hotel. He also worked as a floor representative for Club Mirage, the casino’s players club, before going into the Management Association Program which allowed him to learn about and transition into supervisory roles.
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