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Hughes Hotels "Spring Spree" promotion records

Date

1972

Description

Series XVII. Hotel and Casino Promotional Events

Mixed Content

Julie McDonald interview, March 14, 1981: transcript

Date

1981-03-14

Description

On March 14, 1981, Michael Richardson interviewed Julie McDonald (b. 1945 in Torrance, California) about her childhood and life in Las Vegas, Nevada. McDonald shares her first impressions of Las Vegas, her schooling and the location of residential areas. Throughout the interview, McDonald also goes into detail concerning her occupations at the Guild Theatre, her secretarial work at Nellis Air Force Base, her singing career and being a “21” dealer. McDonald discusses the changes in the gaming industry, particularly the incorporation of women dealers, the use of the silver dollar and the requirements for dealers. McDonald ends by discussing housing, major happenings within Las Vegas, recreation as a kid and mass media in early Las Vegas.

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Hughes Flite Deck Restaurant and Omni Bar at the Hughes Executive Terminal. Credit to Theodore F. Whitmoyer: photographic print, approximately 1968 to 1972

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Item

Archival Collection

Erle A. Taylor Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00237
Collection Name: Erle A. Taylor Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 02

Archival Component

Young stallion named Snit belonging to John Hughes: photographic print

Date

1938

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.A. Hughes Family. The horse was a mustang and was caught on the open range in the Pahrump Valley.

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Fourth of July celebration, menu, July 4, 1880, unknown restaurant

Date

1880-07-04

Archival Collection

Description

Note: At top of menu, "5:30 Ordinary." Location: Denver, Colorado, United States

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Photograph of Howard Hughes giving a news conference next to his DC-3, New York, 1947

Date

1947-04

Description

Howard Hughes giving a news conference beside his airplane after landing in New York. This was his first flight after the nearly fatal XF-11 prototype crash in 1946.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes leaving the Northrop Gamma Racer, Newark, New Jersey, January 13, 1936

Date

1936-01-13

Description

Howard Hughes leaving the cockpit of a Northrop Gamma, surrounded by a crowd at Newark New Jersey Airport. Hughes set a coast-to-coast speed record. A bank of microphones and a movie camera are seen beside the plane.

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Photograph of men working in the Hughes Tool Co. factory, Houston, Texas, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

Men working on Hughes rock drilling bit piece #5411-482 at the Hughes Tool company in Houston, Texas.

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HUD Requests for Reimbursements, July 1987 – July

1990

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Ruby Duncan Collection on Operation Life
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Collection Number: MS-00367
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Collection on Operation Life
Box/Folder: Box 28

Archival Component

Photograph of a drill bit at the Hughes Tool Co., Houston, Texas, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

Transcribed from attached press release: "LITTLE BIT Only an inch and a quarter in diameter, this "microbit" enables engineers at the Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, to estimate the performance of full-size bits for the oil drilling industry. The company operates the largest testing laboratory of its kind anywhere in the world and produces thousands of rock bits necessary to drill deeper and deeper as the world's shallow oil wells have become exhausted. Howard Hughes terms the Hughes Tool company the "keystone" of his industrial empire."

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