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Photograph of interior lobby area of Huntridge Theater with art contest entries, 1968
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The caption from newspaper clipping (Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 22, 1968) for this photograph states: Harry Zumar, General Manager of the Huntridge Theater and Radio KENO's Disc Jockeys, Harry Miller and Scotty Morgan try to pick a winner from the many entrants in the Art Contest, held in conjunction with Walt Disney's ""Never A Dull Moment"" now at the Huntridge Theater. ""Never a Dull Moment"" stars Dick Van Dyke and is a hilarious spoof on a million dollar art heist. Contest pictures will remain on display at the Huntridge Theater throughout the showing of ""Never a Dull Moment.""
Ina Wood oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Ina Wood conducted by Ken Scarbrough on March 12, 1981 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In her interview, Wood details her and her husband's personal experiences living in Las Vegas, Nevada since moving to the city in 1954.
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Chester Lockwood oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Chester Lockwood conducted by James R. Crevelt Jr. on April 25, 1979 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Lockwood talks about his early life and discusses hotel development and culture in early Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Cathy Jones oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Cathy Jones conducted by Renee Walden on March 12, 1978 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Jones discusses being a dependent at the Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada and what it is like being in the military.
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Marvin Frisk oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Marvin Frisk conducted by Roger Tyndall on April 02, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Frisk discusses his career in aviation with United Airlines at McCarren International Airport.
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Transcript of interview with Tom Wright by Claytee White, February 14, 2005
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Dr. Tom Wright was born and grew up in Illinois. His father finished his PhD in Chicago and then taught at Illinois College in Jacksonville. His mother suffered from arthritis and was told to seek a warmer climate, so John Wright packed up his family and moved to Las Vegas. Tom was 14, ready for high school, and his two brothers were elementary school age. Tom attended Las Vegas High School, which was close to the Crestwood community where the family had purchased their first home. He remembers that UNLV had no buildings when his dad first started teaching there. Instead, he conducted class in high school classrooms and church Sunday school rooms. Dr. Wright started off at a community college as a Geology Major, but a class with Bud Poland convinced him that history was his passion. He transferred to Pomona to continue his bachelor's degree. He spent his junior year in Peru on a study-abroad program, and that experience made him a Latin Americanist. The information he gath
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Jocelyn Cortez interview, March 18, 2019: transcript
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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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