"Interviewed by Stefani Evans. Arriving in Las Vegas in 2015 directly from her hometown in Cebu Province, Philippines, Lucela M. Wattin was struck by the dry climate, "like an oven!" But she immediately felt at home in her apartment near Spring Mountain Road and Chinatown, because she could buy familiar food items, and because her new next door neighbor also came from Cebu Province.
Oral history interview with Gregory T. H. Lee conducted by Stefani Evans, Ayrton Yamaguchi, Cecilia Winchell, and Kristel Marie Peralta on December 1, 2020 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project.
Gregory discusses his birth in Honolulu, Hawai'i, his upbringing in San Francisco, California, his education from Harvard University, and his moving to Las Vegas in 1988 with his family. He shares how his parents, Doris Shoong Lee and Ted Lee, purchased a casino on East Sahara Avenue and renamed it the Eureka before Gregory left Las Vegas to earn his Juris Doctorate degree from USC Gould School of Law. He talks about his employment history related to law and the joint venture with his parents to open Eureka's sister property in Mesquite, Nevada. Gregory also discusses his Chinese and Japanese heritage, the Hawaiian culture, and his current affairs as well as his take on current events and discrimination in the United States, with particular regard to Black Lives Matter and COVID-19.
Subjects discussed include: Kyushu, Japan and "China virus."
Rotary party at Jack Woods' ranch at the southeast intersection of Flamingo and Maryland Parkway in Las Vegas, Nevada. Standing in the front row on deck: Robert Russell, Allye Lawson, Frances Butterfield, Dr. Stan Hardy, Major Sweeney. Seen sitting in the second row: Mrs. James Shaver, Mrs. Harvey Luce, Bess Gatewood, Maxwell Kelch, Laura Belle Kelch, William J. Moore, Pat Moore, ?, Pop Squires, Al Sharp, Mrs. Fred O'Donnell, Anna Fayle, Vanita Sharp, Ora Sells. Standing in the third row: Mrs. Harry Miller, Mathilda Russell, Jack Wollenzine, Mrs. Wollenzine, ?, ?, Charlie Dimock, Mrs. Dimmock, ?, ?, Leo McNamee, Florence Lawson, Mrs. O.W. Yates, Delphine Squires, Mrs. Frank Case, ?, ?, Nola Hardy, Les Edwards, Muriel Edwards, Cecile Oram. Seen in the fourth row: Mrs. Rosemary Ruymann, Hary Miller, Carl Hyde, James Cashman Sr., Dr. ?, Mrs. ?, Bryan Bunker, Al Wendelboe, Mrs. Cashman, Mrs. B. Bunker, Juanita Gusewelle, ?, Marge Allen, R.J. Willstead, Frank Case, Chris Rasmussen, Mrs. ?, Reine Underhill, Otto Underhill, Lola Woodbury, Clare Woodbury, Charlie Sells, Leonard Fayle, ?, ?, Dalton Buck, Mrs. ?, Fran McNamee, J.W. Wilson. Seen in the top row: Frank Gusewelle, Jim Shaver, Jack Wood, ?, Dick Clough, Mrs. Clough, ?, Coach Harvey Stanford, Cliff Leonard, ?, Harvey Luce, Harry Allen, Marion Earl, Vic Shurtleff, Mrs. ?, Myrtle Ronnow, ?, Lorin Ronnow.
Black and white image of students from Las Vegas School gathered for a class picture. First row, left to right: Bonnie Ball, Bernadine Bawman, Charles McAdams, Lucia Morales, Ferris George, Vivian Caudilf, Alvis Allen, Mildred Aldridge, Alen Kepler, Patty Bugess, Nanyu Tomiyasu. Second row, left to right: Richard Parker, Vinie Nielson, Ronald Baugh, Ruth Engwerson, Lyle Sfietz, Adela Varelas, Bob Nicholas, Theresa Santa Cruz, Leon Carlson, Josaphine Nills, and Wayne Bright. Third row, left to right: Harold Krammer, Marjorie Fenning, Claretdal Mastuson, Rowena Prague, Evelyn Young, Vands Mae Berry, Ester Bradly, Lewis Wells, Ethel Roy, Leon Jennings, Marjorie Rockwell, and Billy Tualese. Fourth row, left to right: Ernest Saari, Mabel Snow, Murial Hellen, James Martain, Nelson Bishop, Edward Frances, Jimmy Hard, Tim Carrigan, Gillian O'Brien, Tommy Bean, Natilia Michel, Richard Bingham, Katherine Carr, and Jack Horden. Fifth row, left to right: Leland Hanson, Wesly Barnum, Ruby Baey, Cla