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Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) Corporate Records

Identifier

MS-00403

Abstract

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.

Archival Collection

Leprechaun Mining and Chemical, Inc. Records

Identifier

MS-00464

Abstract

The Leprechaun Mining and Chemical, Inc. Records from 1954 to 1998 contain business information, Foot Chemical Company partnership documentation, meetings, audit and investment reports, financial papers, and stock certificates and transfers. Also included is data on the minerals mined in Nevada, such as salt, potash, and lithium.

Archival Collection

Floyd Jenne interview, 1996: transcript

Date

1996-03-11
1996-04-11
1996-10-08
1996-03-13
1996-03-18
1996-03-23
1996-03-28

Description

Jenne discusses his birth in Ogden, Utah in 1915, his early life in Northern Nevada in 1920s, and his later life in Boulder City, Nevada working as a reclamation ranger for the Bureau of Reclamation. Jenne begins the interviews discussing his work as a steel foundry worker and miner in McGill, Nevada, studying forestry, and enlisting in the Civilian Conservation Corps at Utah State University in 1934. Jenne then describes his experiences moving to Boulder City and working as a reclamation ranger. Other topics Jenne covers include providing security for notable Boulder City and Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) visitors and patrolling the area. Lastly, Jeanne talks about the Boulder City Junior Chamber of Commerce, Boulder City's incorporation, and Boulder City law enforcement.

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Interview with Bruce Lee Wilhelm, June 22, 2005

Date

2005-06-22

Description

Narrator affiliation: Mining engineer, Project manager, Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECo)

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Interview with Robert William Mackenzie, January 1, 2005

Date

2005-01-05

Description

Narrator affiliation: Atomic Veteran, Pacific Proving Ground; Curtiss Atomic Marines

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Interview with Anna (Anne) Welsh, June 23, 2004

Date

2004-06-23

Description

Narrator affiliation: Protester, Nevada Desert Experience

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Transcript of interview with Sandra Peña by Lada Mead and Stefani Evans, March 27, 2017

Date

2017-03-27

Description

Sandra Peña’s story begins in East Los Angeles, where she spent her first fifteen years with her parents (both from Michoacán, Mexico), and her younger sister. The father's managerial position at Master Products allowed the family to live rent-free in a company-owned house behind the main factory, because he collected the rents for the company's two other dwellings. In this interview, Peña recalls the family move to Porterville, in California's Central Valley, her return to Los Angeles at nineteen, and her work with Parson’s Dillingham, a contractor for the Metrolink rail system. She draws the link between the Los Angeles and Las Vegas construction communities by describing her husband's move to Las Vegas to find work; a chance Las Vegas encounter with a friend from Chino, California; her ability to gain employment in Las Vegas at Parson’s, a company that had joint ventured with Parson’s Dillingham, and her move from there to Richardson Construction, a local minority-owned company. As Peña says, "It's kind of all intermingled. Even if you go here and you go there, it's like everybody knows everybody." Throughout, Peña weaves her family story into the narrative as she describes her youth, the birth of her son, the illness and death of her father, and her family's participation in her current employment with Richardson. As she remembers the people, places, and events of her life, Peña speaks to the ways one woman of color built on her interstate construction connections and rose in a male-dominated industry.

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Chabad of Green Valley

Rabbi Mendy Harlig and Rebbetzin Chaya Harlig established Chabad of Green Valley/Henderson out of their home in 1998, where they offered religious services, holiday celebrations and classes to the local Jewish community.  In 2002, they moved into the Eastern Ave storefront, enabling the center to enhance its existing services and expand into a wider variety of programs benefiting the community.  Chabad of Green Valley/Henderson has recently had a groundbreaking on the site of their new property, located on Carnegie St. between Kenneth Ave.

Transcript of interview with Darlene Kelly by David P. Wiser, March 16, 1975

Date

1975-03-16

Description

On March 16, 1975, David P. Wiser interviewed former hair dresser and dealer, Darlene Kelly (born December 1st, 1942 in San Francisco, California) in the collector’s home in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two discuss how Kelly first arrived in Las Vegas, as well as her occupational history. Kelly goes on to describe the Stewart Ranch, as well as the social environment of the forties and fifties in Southern Nevada.

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