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An Interview with Barbara Buckley, Kevin Buckley, Michael Buckley, Jill Buckley and Lindsay Stilwell
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Oral history interview with Barbara Buckley, Kevin Buckley, Michael Buckley, Jill Buckley and Lindsay Stilwell conducted by Claytee White on January 28, 2014 for the West Charleston Neighborhoods-- An Oral History Project of Ward 6. Kevin discusses the early Pinto Palomino neighborhood, working as a teenager, black-white relations, his education, serving as one of Howard Hughes physicians, and the move to Las Vegas. Barbara talks about the difference between Flintridge, California, and Las Vegas in 1968 when the family first arrived. The family members also discuss community participation and hotel-casino entertainment for young couples, and rearing children in Las Vegas.
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The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, January 27, 1983
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Letter and envelope from Mary Etta Syphus, Provo City, Utah to John M. Bunker, Logan City, Utah
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From the Syphus-Bunker Papers (MS-00169). The folder contains an original handwritten letter, an envelope, a typed transcription of the same letter, and a copy of original letter attached.
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Ainsworth, Louis C., 1921-1986
Louis Charles Ainsworth was born on July 22, 1921 in Manchester, New Hampshire. He served in the United States Air Force from 1942 to 1946 as a corporal and settled in Silver City, New Mexico. He married Mary Helen Rowley, who survived him after his death in 1986. He had five children, two from his marriage with Mary Helen and three from a previous marriage to Betty Jean Conger. He passed away on July 18, 1986 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Bradford, Darrell A., 1930-1996
Darrell A. Bradford was born on March 19, 1930 in Spanish Fork, Utah to Moses Bradford and Anna Rigtrup. Bradford worked as an assistant manager at Alamo Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada before it was sold in 1948 by its owners, George and Peg Crockett, to Clark County and renamed McCarran International Airport. Bradford married Ruth Young in Elko, Nevada in May of 1954. Bradford died on December 22, 1996.
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Preddy, Sarann Knight
Sarann Preddy was born July 27, 1920 in Eufaula, Oklahoma. Sarann Knight Preddy moved to Hawthorne, Nevada, in the 1940s, becoming a business owner and president of the NAACP. Later she moved to Las Vegas, where she served as a community activist and worked as one of the first black 21-dealers. Preddy bought the Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada and worked to preserve the building and its history. She passed away on December 22, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Strong, Eugene, 1893-1962
Actor and vaudeville performer Eugene Strong was born on August 9, 1893 to Jean Chistopherson and Peter Strong in Wisconsin, United States. He performed on stage in The Virginian for two years before entering a forty-week vaudeville tour on To Save One Girl. Strong also appeared as Endicott on Howard Hughes' The Front Page (1931).
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#71268: "Please I'd Like to Grow", located on the first floor of Lied Library, highlights student activism at UNLV from its founding up until the present day. The exhibit's title was taken from a photo printed in the 1968 edition of the UNLV student yearbook, Epilogue, of a college student holding a sign that reads "Please I'd Like to Grow", November 30, 2016, 2016 November 30
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Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 01
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Scrapbooks, 1935-1997
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The scrapbooks series (1935-1997) primarily contains scrapbooks with newspaper clippings covering the work of Margaret Kelly at the Folies-Bergère and Lido de Paris, and her long career as creator and manager of the world famous Bluebell Girls. Included are materials from 1958 about the Bluebell Girls shows in Las Vegas, Nevada. The series also contains a scrapbook with newspaper clippings, photographs, and show programs.
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Collection Name: Margaret Kelly Collection on the Bluebell Girls
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