The opening of the Western Airlines office in the Riviera Hotel. Standing from left to right are: Doris Parlaman, Mayor C.D. Baker, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Fox, and Arthur F. Kelley (VP, Sales, Western Airlines). They are cutting the ribbon at the opening ceremony. Site Name: Riviera Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.) Street Address: 2901 South Las Vegas Boulevard

Horse drawn stage leaving Tonopah for Manhattan, circa 1905. There was an inscription on the image. "The coaches were the primary mode of passenger transportation between central Nevada's early mining camps. They were eventually replaced by railroads which built into Rhyolite, Goldfield, Tonopah, and Blair, but served the area's smaller satellite camps until the mid-1910's when the automobile took their place. The photo was reproduced from an original 1905 colored postcard."

Located 10 miles southeast of Tonopah, the camp was settled in the late 1890s when silver and gold was discovered in the area. In May, 1900, when Jim Butler picked up his first samples at the site that would become Tonopah, he was en route to Klondyke. He offered the local assayer, Frank Higgs, an interest in the find for an assay, but Higgs declared the samples worthless and threw them out. Fortunately, Butler retrieved more samples on this return trip to Belmont. The building on the right with the large smoke-stack was the assay office. None of the structures remain today.

Candelaria was born as a result of silver mining in the area. Silver was discovered nearby in 1863 and large scale mining began in 1873. The town-site was laid out in 1876 and soon supported saloons, stores, a newspaper, schools, and a railroad, the Carson and Colorado, which reached town in 1882. Peak population was over 1,500, recorded in 1883. The mines most prosperous years were during the 1880s, although mining continued through the 1950s with a total production of over $21,000,000. Candelaria was virtually deserted by 1940 and had become a ghost town by 1950. Large scale open pit mining began in 1977 and continued through 1996.

In most central Nevada mining camps, building materials were scarce during early development. Empty bottles, cans and stones were used to fabricate dwellings. In Goldfield, dugout homes were built into the walls of the two largest washes that crossed the townsite. The dugouts were cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The major disadvantage was size. Most were limited to one room. As building materials became available, conventional housing soon replaced the dugouts. The majority of Goldfield's dugouts were destroyed in the flood of 1923, although a few can still be found in the smaller washes on the west edge of town.

There was an inscription on the image. "The burro was the principal form of transportation used by prospectors in central Nevada at the turn of the century. The prospectors had a love-hate relationship with the animals, which were dependable and well adapted to the desert region, although they could be stubborn and cunning. As the automobile became the accepted mode of transportation, the burros were turned loose and roamed the streets and local trash dumps of the area's towns. They were one of the principal forms of entertainment for local children until they gradually disappeared from the metropolitan areas in the 1920s. The burros that roam Death Valley and the Marietta area of central Nevada today are descendants of those left behind by the prospectors."

The Clark County High School girls' basketball team poses with a ball. Later the school was renamed Las Vegas High School. Louella Franses Wengert (Ham) is the first girl to the left holding the ball. Site Name: Las Vegas High School (Las Vegas, Nev.)