An up-close view of Howard Hughes.

Portrait photograph of a young Howard Hughes.

Caption: Jake Goodfriend
Site Name: Jake's Dance Hall (Goldfield, Nev.)
Pioneer Dance Hall (Goldfield, Nev.)

Narrator affiliation: Physicist, First director, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory; Arms control negotiator; Director, Defense Dept. Research adn Engineering

Margaret Ostler Stout-Hall’s personality shines in this interview, in which she discusses growing up in Las Vegas’s Rancho Circle. She moved to Las Vegas with her family in 1951, when she was twelve and her father bought Las Vegas’s Seven-Up Bottling Company. She immediately found friends at John S. Park Elementary School and later at Las Vegas High School, where she became a Rhythmette. Margaret describes her Rancho Circle neighborhood, dragging Fremont Street, working at the El Portal Theater, and dancing at the Wildcat Lair. As a Rhythmette, she traveled to New York and Philadelphia to perform on the “Ed Sullivan Show” and the Elks National Convention. Stout-Hall credits Rhythmette advisor, Evelyn Stuckey, for developing a sense of confidence, belonging, and responsibility in the young women she led. It was this confidence that enabled Margaret to go to work for Harry Reid after she suffered a tragic loss. Former Rhythmettes honored Stuckey by lobbying the Clark County School District to name a school after their former mentor; the school opened in 2010.

A portrait of Howard R. Stocker, Oscar Stocker's younger brother. The inscription reads "Howard Stocker died on Sunday January 15, 61 [1961]." Howard Raymond Stocker was born December 19, 1884. He was a graduate of Lehigh University, class of 1906.