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Las Vegas Stadium site pre-construction, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-05-10

Description

Polaris Avenue is slated to see monumental change in the coming years as the Las Vegas Stadium project is slated for its east side.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes under the second XF-11, April 3, 1947

Date

1947-04-03

Description

Howard Hughes prior to test-piloting the second XF-11 prototype, a duplicate of the plane which crashed on July 7 the previous year.

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Dr. William S. "Doc" Park, Rotary Club President, 1929-1930, document 2 of 2

Date

1929 to 1930

Archival Collection

Description

Short biography on Dr. William S. "Doc" Park, President during the years 1929-1930. Continued from man000118.

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Transcript of interview with Theresa Jones Denning by Lynn Kelstron Ballard, February 26, 1977

Date

1977-02-26

Description

On February 26, 1977, Lynn Kelstrom Ballard interviewed Teresa Jones Denning (born in Overton, Nevada in 1912) about her life in Southern Nevada. Denning first talks about her family background and her upbringing in Overton, including her life on a farm and her education in that small town. Denning also talks about her recreational pastimes before talking about the building of Boulder Dam and her life in Boulder City. Towards the end of the interview, she talks about her work as a driver for Las Vegas High School, her husband’s work on the Boulder Dam, and the changes in living conditions that she has noticed in Boulder City over time.

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Interview with Brenda Adams Scruton, June 29, 2004

Date

2004-06-29

Description

Narrator affiliation: Senior Employment Representative, Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECo)

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Transcript of interview with Bruce L. Woodbury by Stefani Evans, September 27, 2016

Date

2016-09-27

Description

As Bruce Woodbury reflects on his twenty-eight years as Clark County's longest-serving County commissioner (1981–2009) he recalls serving with about thirty different commissioners. Surprisingly, "only seven of us got major jail sentences." He ruminates how Federal Bureau of Investigation probes Operation Yobo in the early 1980s and G Sting in the early 2000s exposed several Clark County politicians who succumbed to greed. While Woodbury considers honesty in office a given, his values were not held by all of his colleagues. One Operation Yobo recording caught a fellow commissioner responding to the query, "How about Woodbury?" with, "No, you can't touch him with a ten foot pole." Woodbury remembers his "campaign guys really liked that." Apparently the voters did as well, as he consistently won re-election. The Las Vegas native, who was raised in the John S. Park neighborhood and attended Las Vegas schools, earned his Bachelor's degree at the University of Utah and his Juris Doctorat

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