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UNLV Libraries Collection on Casino Game Protection

Identifier

MS-00846

Abstract

The UNLV Libraries Collection on Casino Game Protection includes resources on casino security dating from 1975 to 2004 compiled by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Special Collections and Archives. Materials include published reports related to casino security, gaming legislation, and gaming controls. It also contains information from surveillance information network reports, including the Griffin Book by Griffin Investigations, and other sources that document persons who committed offenses in casinos. The reports were designed to assist casino operators in spotting cheaters, advantage players, and scam artists.

Archival Collection

Ruth Fyfe, K. Oscar Knudson, and Fern Olive oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01042

Abstract

Oral history interview with Ruth Fyfe, K. Oscar Knudson, and Fern Olive oral conducted by Susan Kendall on March 22, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. The three interviewees discuss their early experiences teaching in Las Vegas, Nevada elementary schools beginning between 1924 and 1926. Topics the interviewees discuss include interstate school sports events, physical education for girls, sports for girls, teacher shortages, and school overcrowding. They also discuss illegal gambling in Las Vegas, Nevada prior to 1931, as well as Fremont Street casino and bar development in relation to the Las Vegas Grammar School (currently known as the Historic Fifth Street School) and the Las Vegas High School (currently known as Las Vegas Academy of the Arts) after Nevada legalized gambling.

Archival Collection

Michael Arage oral history interview: transcript

Date

2021-11-12

Description

Oral history interview with Michael Arage conducted by Dalton DuPré on November 12, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. In this interview, Michael Arage discusses his upbringing in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Ontario, Canada with his sister and his Filipino-Palestinian heritage. He talks about how his parents immigrated to the United States, his life and education in Toronto, and his relocation to Los Angeles, California where he married his wife. Michael Arage shares how the couple moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2012 when his wife started a job at Zappos. Because he lacked a work visa, Michael Arage began playing poker and working in sports betting. In 2019, he founded a community organization to support the people of Palestine, called Nevadans for Palestinian Human Rights. Michael Arage talks about his activism efforts, anti-Arab racism, his cultural upbringing, and of Filipino and Arabic foods and customs. He also shares his views of living in Las Vegas, the difficulties of raising a child away from her cousins, and differing governmental policies and healthcare between Canada and the United States.

Text

United States laws and gaming regulation, 1949 to 2005

Level of Description

Sub-Series

Scope and Contents

Materials include news reports, copies of legislation, and legal analyses of state and federal regulations on gaming from 1949 to 2005 collected by Eugene Martin Christiansen. The materials are primarily comprised of newspaper articles and reports concerning state-level regulation of legal gambling, but the materials also include some federal legislation.

Archival Collection

Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00561
Collection Name: Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
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Photograph of slot machine and sign inside Stardust Casino, Las Vegas (Nev.), circa 1974

Date

1973 to 1975

Description

Interior view of the Stardust Hotel, with a slot machine and a casino tournament sign near what seems to be an open employee doorway. Other slot machines and a walkway can be seen to the left, with a blurred person visible moving away from the photographer. The signs above the machines read "Shop" and "Change." The tournament sign in the center reads "Play Now to Enter the 20th International Gin Rummy Tournament. $40,000.00." This color photograph was taken before the casino was renovated in the mid 1970s. Site Name: Stardust Resort and Casino Street Address: 3000 South Las Vegas Boulevard

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