From the Las Vegas Bugle Photograph Collection on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (PH-00336). Images of customers at Badlands Saloon in Commercial Center, 953 E. Sahara, Las Vegas. Rafael Navarre, owner, identified on back.
Plumbing sheet for the Womens Hospital from roll 40 of the UNLV University Libraries Collection of Architecture Drawings. The hospital was originally located on East San Francisco Avenue (currently known as Sahara Avenue).
Oral history interviews with Barbara and Norman Kaye conducted by Claytee D. White on February 24, 2010, March 09, 2010, and December 06, 2011 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Barbara Kaye begins the interview by discussing her career as a showgirl and moving to Reno, Nevada in 1955 to work as a dancer in a show at the Mapes Hotel in 1955. She then talks about later moving to Las Vegas, Nevada to dance at the Riviera Hotel & Casino. She also describes living briefly in Hawaii with her husband, Norman Kaye, his career as a musician, and the life of a Las Vegas showgirl. Norman Kaye discusses his career as a musician in the Mary Kaye Trio with his sister, Mary Kaye. He recalls when they performed at the El Rancho Hotel and Casino, Tropicana Hotel, and Sahara Hotel and Casino, as well as his songwriting outside of the group and being named the poet laureate of Nevada by Governor Grant Sawyer. Lastly, he talks about his career in real estate and his company, Norman Kaye Real Estate.
Miss Evelyn Stuckey (second from left) sitting at a table with other unidentified individuals at the Congo Room located inside of the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.