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Radio interview with McBride conducted by Nevada State Archivist and historian Guy Louis Rocha about McBride's work in Boulder City and Hoover Dam history; Boulder City murder and suicide cases included in McBride's book-in-progress Blood in the Gravy; and McBride's then book-in-progress, Out of the Neon Closet: Queer Community in the Silver State [side A: 25:28; side B: 26:05], audiocassette, 2000 September 25
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Personal Papers
Box/Folder: Box 43 (Restrictions apply), Digital File 00 (Restrictions apply)
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Eckert, Donald L., 1953-
Donald L. Eckert was born on June 22, 1953 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was an assistant food director at the Barbary Coast Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Wilner, Linda C.
Linda Wilner was born July 15, 1944 in New York. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1970 to be closer to her family after divorcing her first husband, leaving her a single mother of two children. She met her husband, Martin at a Jewish Singles event. They were married on December 22, 1974 and adopted a son, Robert. She was a real estate agent in one of the most robust housing markets in the country at the time.
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, April 1, 1992
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Archival Collection
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Transcript of interview with Charles Salton by George Green, April 23, 1976
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Archival Collection
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Interview with Charles Salton by George Green on April 23, 1976. Salton discusses arriving in Las Vegas in 1929, after his family had moved from New Jersey to Huntington Beach, California. His father sold real estate, and expected a boom after the authorization for the construction of Hoover Dam. His father was involved in bootlegging and then owned Al's Bar, a drinking and gambling establishment, on the alley at South First Street. Salton describes the area around Fremont Street and Las Vegas Boulevard with businesses and grocery stores, the grammar school and high school, and the hospital. Salton talks about his social activities, including involvement in the Jewish Community Center (Temple Beth Sholom), and several of the bars, clubs and casinos in the area. He briefly discusses the mob influence in the casinos versus corporate ownership and then speaks about the education system in Clark County.
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Paul Sogan interview, May 16, 1995: transcript
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Archival Collection
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Interviewer: Dennis McBride
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Paul M. Lytle interview, March 8, 1995 transcript
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Archival Collection
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Lytle discusses his birth in Salt Lake City, Utah, his early life in Overton, Nevada, moving around the Southwest United States, and returning to Overton in the early 1930s to work with the Civilian Conservation Corps. Subjects Lytle also talks about in the interview include road and campsite construction at the Valley of Fire State Park, stories about associates and relatives, and being enlisted as a male nurse with the United States Army during World War II. Lastly, Lytle talks about the construction of an exhibit building at Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) originally used as a headquarters for soldiers during World War II to protect the dam.
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Interviews
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: History of Nursing in Southern Nevada Oral History Project Records
Box/Folder: N/A
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Greenberg, Gene
In 1976, Gene Greenberg decided to accept a job transfer with Donrey Media Group and relocated from Laredo, Texas to Las Vegas. Las Vegas was comfortable fit and for the next 30 years, he primarily worked in television ad sales. He rose to become executive vice president and general manager of KVBC-TV.
Significant to Gene’s ties to Las Vegas have been his ties to the Jewish community including his active involvement with Young Leadership, Jewish Federation, and Temple Beth Sholom.
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