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Hong Kong Tourist Association's Lunar New Year Dinner, menu, 1996 February 15

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Archival Collection

UNLV University Libraries Menu Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00436
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Menu Collection
Box/Folder: Box 56

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Transcript of interview with Howard Dreitzer by David Schwartz, June 04, 2015

Date

2015-06-04

Description

Interviewed by David Schwartz. Howard Dreitzer grew up in Miami. He came to Las Vegas in 1974 and went to dealer school on the GI Bill. Howard starting in gaming dealing craps at the Nevada Club and worked at several casinos downtown. Then he became a box and floor man at the Flamingo Hilton. Howard moved to Atlantic City and was a pit boss and later a shift manager at several casinos there. Then he worked at the Harrahs New Orleans Casino & Hotel until it went bankrupt. Howard was hired by the Hilton and worked at the Jupiter Casino and other properties in Australia, then was hired by Seminole Gaming in Florida to set up table games at various properties. Subjects: Nevada Club, California Club, Mint, Flamingo, Frontier, Sands AC, Golden Nugget AC, Golden Nugget LV, Trump Plaza, Showboat AC, Harrah's New Orleans, Conrad Jupiters, Seminole Gaming

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Photograph of breaking ground for the new Edgerton, Germeshausen, & Grier North Las Vegas Facility, North Las Vegas, Nevada, July 25, 1975

Date

1975-07-25

Description

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Edgerton, Germeshausen, & Grier North Las Vegas Facility, North Las Vegas, Nevada, July 25, 1975.

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Howard Hughes in New York after making a high-altitude flight from Los Angeles during which he tested a new two-ounce oxygen mask, 1938 August 20

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File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 17

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Transcript of interview with Gwen Walker by Claytee White, July 15, 2014

Date

2014-07-15

Description

Gwendolyn K. Walker arrived in North Las Vegas in 1962 from Houston, Texas, as a five-year-old with her parents, two brothers, and her cousins. The Walker family at first moved to a rented house on D Street, and Gwen attended Kit Carson Elementary School for first grade. Her mother enrolled in nursing school, so she sent Gwen back to Delhi, Louisiana, to be raised by her grandmother. In Delhi Gwen picked cotton with her aunt while she was in the second grade. Gwen returned to North Las Vegas to live with her mother and complete elementary school at Jo Mackey before matriculating to J. D. Smith Elementary School for junior high school and then to Clark High School. Later she attended UNLV. Gwen and her mother joined Saint James Catholic Church at H Street and Washington Avenue, but after she returned from Delhi she joined Second Baptist Church, where she became close with a cohort of friends that remained strong even as she experienced racism and bullying and love for the first time.

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Job #2000-197: Columbus Day, Halloween, new people for Harrah's/Dawn, 2000 July 20

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Greg Cava Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00399
Collection Name: Greg Cava Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Box 06

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Unknown author. For High Rollers Only, New York Times Magazine, 1976 November 15

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UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
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Collection Number: MS-00626
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 14

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Photograph of Howard Hughes, 1937

Date

1937

Description

Howard Hughes alighting from a Stinson Reliant SR-9 aircraft.

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Job #2003-551: Ralph and Howard studio portrait for Piercy Bowler Taylor Kern, 2003 July 17

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Greg Cava Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00399
Collection Name: Greg Cava Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Box 07

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