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Audio clip from interview with Gil Shaw, May 3, 2016
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Archival Collection
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In this audio clip, Gil Shaw talks about being the default historian for Congregation Ner Tamid, and his interest in preserving history for future generations.
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Audio clip from interview with Lynn Rosencrantz, January 7, 2016
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Archival Collection
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In this clip Lynn Rosencrantz describes what it is like for her to be Jewish in Las Vegas, Nevada as an adult.
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Robert L. "Bob" Forbuss portrait, interior at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center, three days before grand opening: digital image
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Archival Collection
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Salton, Alexander "Al", 1894-1948
Alexander “Al” Salton (1894-1948) was a founding member of the Las Vegas, Nevada Jewish community. Salton moved to Las Vegas in 1928 with his wife Rebecca and his children, Adele and Charles. He worked for a grocery store that sold bootlegging supplies, and he invested in real estate. After Prohibition ended in 1933, Salton opened Al’s Bar on South First Street. Al’s Bar was the first bar in the area to have guaranteed jackpots and was very popular among the Union Pacific Railroad workers.
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Reynolds, Douglas D.
Dr. Douglas Reynolds was born July 12, 1943 and was raised in Pekin, Illinois. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University, and his master’s and doctorate degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. Reynolds moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1983 and joined the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) engineering faculty that same year. Reynolds' primary specialty was mechanical vibration and acoustics. He taught machine design, kinematics and dynamics, and courses in mechanical vibration and acoustics.
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Richardson, Virginia Beckley
Through her oral interview and the materials she provided, Virginia Beckley Richardson
gives us a unique and fascinating look at both a pioneer family of Las Vegas and the early
activities of the Service League, the forerunner of the Junior League of Las Vegas. Her personal
recollections are an insight into life in the city's early years, and the biography of her father
written by her brother, Bruce, humanizes a prominent figure in Las Vegas' history. The
newspaper articles she made available enhance her descriptions of the Service League's activities.
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Wright, Thomas C.
Thomas C. Wright was born to Lucille and John S. Wright on November 6, 1941. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada with his family in 1956. He did his undergraduate work at Pomona College, with his junior year spent in Peru at the University of San Marcos. He went to the University of California Berkeley and earned his MA and PhD in history. He began teaching at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1972. He studied and taught on Latin American history, authoring several books and articles. He retired in 2011.
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Cowan, Susan, 1928-
Susan Cowan grew up in Kansas City, Missouri with her parents, older sister and grandparents. By the time Cowan graduated from high school, she had moved five different times. This continued once she was married, she eventually settled in Boulder, Colorado. It was there that Cowan began working in higher education as a secretary at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where she met her second husband.
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Geran, Hazel, 1926-
Hazel Geran was born June 11, 1926 in Mississippi and lived in Chicago, Illinois for two years. In 1948, at the age of 21, Geran moved to Las Vegas, Nevada to live with relatives. As so many others, she came to Las Vegas in search of a better job. Hers would be as a keno writer at the Westside Cotton Club.
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Hale, Blair
Dr. Blair Hale was born in Idaho in 1949, the third of four children born to Zendal McKay and Lenny Raymond Hale. His education includes semesters at Brigham Young University, El Camino City College, and a dental degree from Washington University.
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