An image of the Visitors Bureau located on Arizona Street in Boulder City at night. Text across the white sign mounted on the front of the building: "Free Movies Building Of The Dam."
Lily Pons (left), Howard Hughes (center), and an unidentified man (right) at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Text printed on an attached strip of paper: "Noted flier and his hostess at cocktail party Los Angeles, Cal. -- Howard Hughes, noted flier, with Lily Pons, singing star, as he attended the cocktail party given by Miss Pons at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Credit Line (ACME) 11/8/38 NY LOND PAR."
Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "As Howard Hughes Was Welcomed to Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Cal. -- Mayor Frank L. Shaw of Los Angeles, Howard Hughes, Will Hays, "Czar" of the movies, and Governor Frank Merriam of California (left to right) are pictured at the luncheon in the Biltmore Hotel which followed the wild ovation for Hughes and his four companions on his record-smashing world flight as they arrived in Los Angeles from their triumph from the East. Credit Line (ACME) 8/2/38"
Description given with photograph: "Howard Hughes after landing in New York after a high altitude flight from Los Angeles during which he tested a new two-ounce oxygen mask. With him were (L to R): Charles Perrine, Glenn Odekirk, and Harry Connor."
From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). L-R: unidentified; Art Olson, Clark County Commissioner; Harold Corbin, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Boulder City Manager; Dr. Henry J. Reining, Dean of the College of Administration, USC at Los Angeles; Albert Franklin, Boulder City Councilman; Bob Broadbent, Boulder City Mayor; Dr. Thomas S. White, Boulder City Councilman; Grant Sawyer, Governor of Nevada; William Byrne, Henderson, Nevada mayor; Morgan J. Sweeney, Boulder City Councilman; Arleigh West, Acting Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation at Boulder City; Joe Manix, Boulder City Councilman; N.E. Broadbent, Mayor of Ely, Nevada; B. Mahlon Brown, Nevada state senator; Harley Harmon, Clark County Commission Chairman; Jake Dieleman, Nevada state assemblyman.
When Julie Brinkerhoff-Jacobs talks about the landscape architecture firm her parents, Barbara and Don Brinkerhoff, began in their home in 1958, she brightens and leans in. Since joining her parents’ firm in 1982, Julie gradually assumed responsibility for Lifescapes International’s sales, marketing, financial management, and strategic planning and serves as President and Chief Financial Officer. Here, Brinkerhoff-Jacobs talks of her life before joining and outside of Lifescapes: her family; her youth; her charity, HomeAid; her leadership activities; and her personal interests. Her focus, though, is Lifescapes and the Las Vegas people and the iconic projects that not only altered the ways that visitors perceive Southern Nevada but also changed the business of Lifescapes. “Not just in Las Vegas, but around the world people hire us because of what we've done in Las Vegas.” For Julie, one of the greatest joys of working alongside her parents was discovering them as peers—learning to know them as two people who “chose to live an incredibly artistic life together.” Her mother passed in 2014, but Julie and her father continue to work with and learn from each other.