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Transcript of an interview with Clinton Wright by Claytee D. White, October 13, 2005

Date

2005-10-13

Description

Clinton Wright worked as a photographer for the Las Vegas Voice for fifteen years. In his interview, he discusses living and working in Las Vegas, and raising his family.

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Audio/visual recordings of radio interviews on KNPR, 2005-2009

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Las Vegas Art Museum Records

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Transcript of interview with Murl Emery by James M. Greene, October 18, 1974

Date

1974-10-18

Archival Collection

Description

On October 18, 1974, James M. Greene interviewed Murl Emery (born June 7th, 1903 in Bolton, California) at his home in Nelson, Nevada. Also present during the interview is Mrs. Emery and Mr. Dutch Eckhart, a guest who has just arrived to visit with Mr. Emery. The interview covers Mr. Emery’s personal experience in and around Southern Nevada, particularly in the areas from Searchlight, Nevada to Nelson, to Boulder Canyon, but mostly on the Colorado River. Mr. Eckhart also helps to interject some insight into the popularity of the Model T Ford in those days and early days of newly paved roads. Additionally, they discuss water shortage, wells, the building of the railroad, and mining in Nevada. Mr. Emery also discusses the books that were written about his adventurous life, his discoveries and his explorations.

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Transcript of interview with Flo Mlynarczyk by Claytee White, July 7, 2005

Date

2005-07-07

Description

Flo Mlynarczyk began life in Fort Morgan, Colorado. Her parents divorced and she moved with her mother first to Loveland and eventually to Los Angeles. Her mother started the first Red Cross in Bell Gardens, oversaw the building of their home, and raised money for various charities. Flo remembers when the Japanese were rounded up and interred during WWII. She was in grade school and recalls that one day they all just disappeared. Upon graduation from high school in 1943, Flo moved to Kodiak, Alaska, to live with friends. She recalls total blackouts on the streets of Kodiak due to the war, the Short Snorter Club, and her return to California after a bout of pneumonia. Back in Bell Gardens, Flo worked for a department store, married and divorced in 1945, gave birth to her son Michael in 1946, and ended up in Tonopah, Nevada, with a sister who ran a cafe there. After a second marriage ended, Flo moved to Las Vegas and began working at Phelps Pump and Equipment as a bookkeeper.

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Jocelyn Cortez interview, March 18, 2019: transcript

Date

2019-03-18

Description

Interviewed by Nathalie Martinez. Jocelyn Cortez is a Salvadoran-American immigration lawyer. She grew up on the Eastside of Las Vegas and grew up going to school in the Clark County School District and at UNLV before going to Law School at the University of Arizona. She is an engaged community member as an immigration lawyer working alongside the Culinary Union and the Latino Bar Association.

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Harold M. Agnew oral history interview, 2005 October 10

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Nevada Test Site Oral History Project Records

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Robert Agonia oral history interview, 2005 June 29

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Nevada Test Site Oral History Project Records

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Curtis Amie oral history interview, 2005 January 21

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Archival Collection

Nevada Test Site Oral History Project Records

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Roger Andersen oral history interview, 2005 September 20

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Archival Collection

Nevada Test Site Oral History Project Records

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William Beam oral history interview, 2005 January 20

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Nevada Test Site Oral History Project Records

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