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Showroom Internationale menu, 1969

Date

1905-05-22

Description

Restaurant: Showroom Internationale Location: 3000 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

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Savoy Room, Chinese dinner menu;

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1980 (year approximate)

Description

Restaurant: Savoy Room Location: Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

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Chinese Kitchen, dinner menu

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1980 (year approximate)

Description

Note: Service from 6 pm-11:45 pm Restaurant: Chinese Kitchen (Las Vegas, Nev.) Location: Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

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Allycia B. Murphy oral history interview

Identifier

OH-03901

Abstract

Oral history interview with Allycia B. Murphy conducted by Stefani Evans on June 30, 2023 for Reflections: the Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. In this interview, attorney Allycia B. Murphy shares how she learned recently who her biological father was and how it has changed her life. She talks about connecting with half-siblings, her biological father, and learning about her father's Samoan, Japanese, and German family history. Murphy discusses growing up in southeast North Carolina, being enrolled with her mother's family as Lumbee Tribal Citizens, and learning to code switch. She talks about playing sports in middle and high school, majoring in African American studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and attending law school at North Carolina Central University. She recalls becoming a prosecutor with the North Carolina First Prosecutorial District, and meeting her husband. Murphy discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2017, getting married, and the loss of her first child, and subsequent children since her first pregnancy. She closes her interview discussing being hired by the City of Las Vegas as a Deputy City Attorney, Office of the City Attorney, Criminal Division, a position she continues to hold at the time of the interview.

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Showroom Internationale menu

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1980 (year approximate)

Description

Note: Notice of food cost increase inside menu Menu insert: Wine lists Restaurant: Showroom Internationale Location: 3000 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

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Biographical essay by Gary Sternberg, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Gary Sternberg grew up in Germany, witnessing anti-Semitic propaganda as early as age 7. He describes some of the experiences his father endured at a concentration camp, and his escape to China. He and his mother reunited with his father in Shanghai in 1940. They left Shanghai in 1948, eventually settling in Cleveland. He and his family came to Las Vegas in 1969.

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Michelle DiTondo oral history interview

Identifier

OH-03807

Abstract

Oral history interview with Michelle DiTondo conducted by Vanessa Concepcion on November 9, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project.

Michelle talks about her parents' experiences living in Osaka, Japan during the war, and the circumstances of her move as a child to Nellis Air Force base in 1972. She discusses living in North Las Vegas and her experiences being part of an air force family. Michelle shares stories of her life on the base and her interactions with other air force families. She also talks about her Japanese culture, foods she has cooked with her mother and brother, celebrating cultural events in light of the pandemic, and her career history including her most recent role working at MGM Resorts International.

Subjects discussed include: Air Force Base; NCO Club; AAPI Scholarship Fund; Taiko Drums.

Archival Collection

Letter from William Hosokawa, image 002 of 003: photographic print

Date

1942-04-22

Description

Second page of letter from William Hosokawa to his friend "Eddie". (March, 1942) (See photo #0254 0291, pho027011)

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