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Street map of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and vicinity, circa 1979
Date
1979
Description
Color; 88 x 73 cm., folded to 24 x 10 cm. "C6-87." Panel title: Las Vegas. Also shows Nellis Air Force Base. Indexes on verso. "Cartographic Department copyright 1979 by California State Automobile Association." Original publisher: California State Automobile Association. Cartographic Department. Scale: One kilometer = 5/8 mile
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Street map of Las Vegas and vicinity, 1965
Date
1905-05-18
Description
1965 [ed.]. Color; 70 x 55 cm., folded to 24 x 10 cm. Panel title: Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and vicinity street map, home buyers guide. "1/65." Includes names of subdivisions. Index and advertisements for subdivisions on verso. "Compliments of First Western Savings & Loan Association."--Panel. "Drawn by Bob and Beverly Bennett, 1/65." Original publisher: Amusement Guide Publications of America.
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Street map of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and vicinity, circa 1969
Date
1905-05-22
Description
Color; 100 x 58 cm., folded to 24 x 11 cm. "569." Indexes on verso. Library's copy has a small piece missing along the left-hand side of the map. Original publisher: California State Automobile Association.
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) College of Business and Economics 33rd commencement program
Date
1996-05-11
Archival Collection
Description
Commencement program from University of Nevada, Las Vegas Commencement Programs and Graduation Lists (UA-00115).
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Transcript of interview with Donald C. Brinkerhoff by Stefani Evans, September 30, 2016
Date
2016-09-30
Archival Collection
Description
Las Vegas tourists who stop to admire the Mirage volcano, the Bellagio conservatory, the Wynn Las Vegas mountain, the Encore gardens, and the iconic Welcome to Las Vegas sign’s surroundings on the Las Vegas Strip likely do not realize that in each case they have sampled a unique landscape environment conceived by Don Brinkerhoff of Lifescapes International, Newport Beach, California. It is for producing work of this caliber that in 2016 the American Gaming Association selected Brinkerhoff to be the first designer inducted into the Gaming Hall of Fame. In this interview, the Los Angeles native and son of a working-class father and an artist/schoolteacher mother, explains how he spent his youth in an owner-built house in the modest suburb of El Monte, where he tended the family truck garden. Despite earning his degree in ornamental horticulture at California Polytechnic (Cal Poly), Don felt unschooled in the arts because the small school did not teach them. To fill that educational gap, Don took his wife and four children to Europe for two years, where he affiliated with the American Academy in Rome and worked for TAC (The Architects' Collaborative) in Greece among other adventures. The family spent another six months in Hawaii, where the children attended school and Don worked with a local landscape architect. The family’s unusual work, school, and travel experience more than completed Don’s arts education and shaped his world view and that of his daughter Julie in countless ways that came to silently benefit the Las Vegas built environment. Upon returning to California in 1968, Brinkerhoff opened his Orange County office, and Lifescapes International became the “go-to” firm to create water features for condominium projects. This work led to his first hotel-casino project at a Sun City golf course condominium project in South Africa, which in turn led to a telephone call from architect Joel Bergman inviting him to become one of three candidate landscape architects to work with Steve Wynn on what would become The Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas. Here, Brinkerhoff speaks to his design philosophy as ninety percent problem-solving and ten percent inspiration even as he describes organizing the signature tree for The Mirage, building the Mirage volcano, taking the idea for Bellagio’s conservatory from the DuPont family’s Longwood Gardens, of creating faux banyans in the Mirage atrium, of creating the model for the Las Vegas Strip median, and of building the mountain on Las Vegas Boulevard in front of Wynn Las Vegas to conceal the Cloud at the Fashion Show Mall. While the fortunes of Lifescapes International continue to grow and succeed worldwide, both Don and Julie credit Steve Wynn and their Las Vegas work: “Las Vegas has totally changed our lives.”
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, January 13, 1997
Date
1997-01-13
Archival Collection
Description
Includes meeting agenda and minutes.
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Interview with James Nobuo Yamazaki, October 14, 2005
Date
2005-10-14
Archival Collection
Description
Narrator affiliation: Physician in Charge, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Nagasaki
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Lamar and Patricia Marchese Papers
Identifier
MS-00884
Abstract
The Lamar and Patricia Marchese papers (1959-2015) contain awards, correspondence (both professional and personal), a Clark County Services and Facilities Directory, newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, Parks and Recreation information, KNPR events and newsletters, art exhibits brochures, and musical performances brochures. The collection chronicles the contributions of the long-time Las Vegas community leaders through photographs, speeches, an interview done with Lamar Marchese, professional papers, audiovisual materials, Las Vegas Centennial Board (LVCB) end of year report, and a LVCB book.
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