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Aerial view overlooking Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic prints

Date

1960 (year approximate) to 1966 (year approximate)

Description

From the Las Vegas: Snapshots of History Photograph Collection (PH-00425). The Dunes Hotel, The Bonanza, Caesars Palace, Flamingo Las Vegas, Sage and Sand Motel, the Sands Hotel and Casino, and Frontier (from south to north).

Image

G. B Barney Rawlings, Susan Oliver, Keith Hanna, and John Seymour (indentified from left to right): photographic print

Date

1968-05

Description

From the Erle A. Taylor Photograph Collection (PH-00237) -- Susan Oliver of Hollywood, California arrives at the Hughes Executive Terminal at McCarran in Las Vegas, Nevada to begin her duties as official hostess of the second annual International Exposition of Flight. She is greeted by G. Barney Rawlings, the vice president of sales for the Riviera, Hotel Keith Hanna, the administrative director for the Frontier Hotel, and John Seymour, the general manager of Hughes Airport operations.

Image

Promotional materials, 1942-1984

Level of Description

Series

Scope and Contents

The promotional materials series (1942-1984) consists of ephemera such as dice and playing cards, menus, magazines, an audit report, and programs and press materials, as well as correspondence, invoices, legal documents, and clippings about the Perfect 11 Contest.

Archival Collection

Frontier Hotel and Casino Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00297
Collection Name: Frontier Hotel and Casino Collection
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

José Luis Gutiérrez oral history interview

Identifier

OH-03488

Abstract

Oral history interview with José Luis Gutiérrez conducted by Maribel Estrada Calderón and Barbara Tabach on October 1, 2018 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Also present during this interview is José’s close friend Sergio Salgado, who was interviewed separately for the Latinx Voices project in 2018.

José discusses his early life growing up in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, and his migration to Tijuana and then Santa Barbara, California as a teenager. He talks about his restaurant employment history both in California and in Las Vegas, including his time working at the Jolly Parrot, the Dunes Hotel and Casino, and his own eatery: Tortilleria Los Arcos.

Subjects discussed include: Tortilleria Los Arcos; Club Social Mexicano.

Archival Collection