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News clips showing the construction progress of the Stratosphere Tower: video
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Archival Collection
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A series of news clips showing the construction progress for the Stratosphere Tower; clips show multiple news presenters from various news stations including Steve Crupi from KTNV-TV Channel 13, Bianca Ferrare from KVBC Channel 3, and other presenters from KLAS-TV Channel 8; people interviewed in the clips include Donald Peterson from Vegas World; Dave Cruce, foreman; Ronald Willis, a Las Vegan; Raymond Lafaire, a tourist; Jerry Miller, crew worker; and other unidentified people and construction workers; a video montage of aerial views of construction is also shown; b-roll of press announcement, Stratosphere Tower drawings, ground breaking, construction, and Las Vegas. Original media VHS, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486. From the Bob Stupak Professional Papers (MS-01016) -- Professional papers -- Audiovisual material -- Digitized audiovisual clips file.
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Duncan, Ruby, 1932-
Ruby Duncan was born in Tallulah, Louisiana on June 7, 1932. Her parents passed away when Duncan was three years old and she spent the remainder of her youth living with various relatives in and around Tallulah. Duncan started work at the Ivory Plantation at an early age, only going to school part-time. She quit school to work full-time as a waitress and later a barmaid. Duncan left Tallulah for Las Vegas, Nevada in 1952 to live with her aunt near Henderson, Nevada.
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Cunningham, Don
Don Cunningham, Jazz musician and Las Vegas resident was born in 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri. As a child he was heavily influenced by blues and jazz musicians such as BB King, Count Basie, and Ella Fitzgerald. Growing up in St. Louis Cunningham worked shining shoes and cleaning steps going to white neighborhoods working inside taverns. He received saxophone lessons from a family friend and joined the band attending a segregated high school.
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Sanchez, Tony F., III, 1966-
Tony F. Sanchez III was born in the Las Vegas’ Women’s Hospital. It was 1966 and the plot of land the hospital sat on near Eastern and Sahara streets was considered rural. It was on the desert of the east Las Vegas that young Tony would grow up, graduate from Valley High School, and then graduate from University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Dave and Marcia Washington and their children: photograph
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Archival Collection
Description
Color photograph of Marcia and Dave Washington (seated) and their children (standing, left to right): Amber, Ray, Angel and April. Framed certificates and plaques are on the wall behind the group.
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Dave Washington with Mayor Oscar Goodman: photograph
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Archival Collection
Description
Color photograph of Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman and Las Vegas Fire Chief David L. Washington, standing next to a Las Vegas Fire Department truck, prior to the start of a parade. Mayor Goodman wears a sash designating him as the Grand Marshall. Handwritten on back in pen, "Mayor Oscar Goodman + David L. Washington, Fire Chief, prior to the start of many parades they attended together."
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Photograph of (left to right) April, Carrie, Josh, Johnie, Eddie, and Jeff Wright, 1991
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Archival Collection
Description
Color photograph of grandparents Eddie and Johnie Wright with their son, Jeff, and his three children, 1991.
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