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Kennedy, Janet, 1924-
Janet Kennedy was born on October 22, 1924 in Stratford, Connecticut. She married her husband Norm in 1946. They moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1963. Janet was a homemaker and had four children.
Person
oral histories (literary works)
Works that record interviews conducted to preserve the recollections of persons whose experience or memories are representative or are of special historical or social significance
Material Type
Photograph of the Governor's Palace in Santa Fe, New Mexico, circa 1920s to 1940
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Photographs of U-Haul on Fremont Street, Las Vegas (Nev.), April 18, 2017
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Site address: 2030 Fremont St
Sign owner: Joe Shoen
Sign details: The U-Haul company began in the summer of 1945 in Washington by Leonard Shoen, by 1955 U-haul had become nationally recognized and a big hitter ever since. This Vegas location was built in 1953. In 1999 the Founder of U-Haul, Leonard Shoen died in a car crash at the age of 83 in Las Vegas.
Sign condition: 4- This sign does show some fading
Sign form: Pylon
Sign-specific description: This sign showcases a orange border and white plastic back lit signs spelling U HAUL in black letters. Each letter is in its own sign box.
Sign - type of display: Plastic back lit
Sign - media: Steel and plastic
Sign - non-neon treatments: Plastic
Sign environment: This location is on East Fremont near Eastern Ave and is surrounded by other little shops and old Motels.
Sign - thematic influences: This property showcases the company's branding that they use for all of their signs and logos.
Survey - research locations: U haul website (history portion) https://www.uhaul.com/About/History/ , Assessor's Page
Survey - research notes: The history portion of U-Haul's website showcases the full history of the company including how the Post WW-2 moving boom benefited the company. https://www.uhaul.com/About/History/
Surveyor: Wyatt Currie-Diamond
Survey - date completed: 2017-08-29
Sign keywords: Pylon; Plastic; Steel; Backlit
Mixed Content
Stonewall Park Collection
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Abstract
The Stonewall Park Collection (1983-1987) documents the Stonewall Park project, an unrealized gay community in Nevada. Material includes news clippings and ephemera, as well as financial records and ancillary documents detailing bankruptcies and litigation associated with the Stonewall Park project. Much of this material is photocopied from MS 1990-15 (Fred Schoonmaker Papers), held at the Museum of GLBT History in San Francisco, CA.
Archival Collection