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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to J. P. Mack (Los Angeles), June 10, 1939

Date

1939-06-10

Archival Collection

Description

Walter Bracken urging the Union Pacific Railroad to pay serious attention to maintaining a wooden pipeline, which was leaking badly in numerous places in summer. The reservoir level was at seven feet and falling.

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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to J. P. Mack (Los Angeles), June 12, 1939

Date

1939-06-12

Archival Collection

Description

Telegram informing that the Las Vegas Land and Water Company crew repaired 108 holes in their main pipeline and gained a foot of water in the reservoir overnight.

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Letter from E. E. Cunningham (Yermo, Cal.) to J. P. Mack, November 27, 1930

Date

1930-11-27

Archival Collection

Description

Discussion of selling water to people living next to the Arden Pipeline, provided they were not using the water to manufacture moonshine.

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Letter from F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), August 26, 1930

Date

1930-08-26

Archival Collection

Description

Letter outlining the procedure for a one-time purchase of bulk drinking water on the St. Thomas line.

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Letter from W. R. Armstrong (Los Angeles) to E. E. Cunningham, June 19, 1930

Date

1930-06-19

Archival Collection

Description

The sale of drinking water to the residents of the Moapa Valley were on a case by case basis.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles) July 25, 1928

Date

1928-08-18

Archival Collection

Description

Walter R. Bracken of the Las Vegas Land and Water Co. approved of Knickerbocker's decision for the Union Pacific Railroad to provide Bishop Earl with water from Overton.

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Transcript of interview with LaVerne Ligon, BJ Thomas, and Leonard Polk conducted by Claytee D. White, July 9, and July 18, 2012

Date

2012-07-09
2012-07-18

Description

LaVerne Ligon was born in 1942 in Washington D.C. Around the age of nine, she started dancing at the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet, which started her career in dance. She took her first job as a professional dancer when she was eighteen with the Capitol Ballet Company. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1973. In 1974, she successfully auditioned for a touring cast of Hello, Dolly! After completing that show, Ligon performed in a number of productions in Las Vegas, including Hallelujah Hollywood and Jubilee. She retired from dancing in the early 1980s after sustaining an injury and she opened the Simba Talent Agency, a dance school for at-risk youth. She also worked for Family Services, but is now retired. She continues to work on projects with the Simba Talent Agency. BJ Thomas was born in 1935 in Plain Dealing, Louisiana. He moved to Las Vegas in 1968 after working for the Post Office in San Francisco. He worked a number of jobs for two years before beginning to pursue work as a stage hand. Thomas worked for shows at the Tropicana and Caesars Palace. He is currently retired. Leonard Polk Jr. was born in 1948 in Monroe, Louisiana. He and his mother moved to Las Vegas in 1949 when he was just two months old. His father worked on the Hoover Dam. Polk grew up in West Las Vegas and remembers the movement to integrate the schools in the city. As a young adult, he joined the Marines and served a tour of duty in Vietnam. Polk began to work for shows in Las Vegas after he finished his military career. He worked for the Aladdin Baghdad Theater and for the MGM Grand Hotel. He is currently retired, but remains active with the First African Methodist Episcopal Church.

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