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Stardust New Years countdown (various cuts/options): video, 1995 December 20
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Local news reports on Stardust showgirl image on the outside of a Western Pacific Airlines plane. Footage shows the showgirl whose image is used (Aki, who performs in Enter the Night) posing next to the plane and a small group of people gathered inside the airport for the reveal. Jim Seagrave (Stardust Marketing) explains how the photograph was taken, then sent off to a company to be made into a vinyl wrap for the plane. Original media VHS, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486.
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Collection Name: Stardust Resort and Casino Records
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Box 037
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"New and Improved" Stardust Resort and Casino renovation promotion: video, 1991 December 31
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Local news segment interviewing Showgirls on their New Year's Eve resolutions. The first showgirl, Tami Kappi, hopes for world peace in the Middle East, and the second, Sharon Shackleford, hopes for more cures for illness and less stress in the world. Second segment includes interviews with locals and tourists as well, who hope for world peace, to lose weight, to win a million dollars, and sports teams to suceed. Original media VHS, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Stardust Resort and Casino Records
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Box 045
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"This Is Burlesque" show at the Aladdin's Bagdad Theatre with clip of performer Irving Benson: video
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Footage of the "This is Burlesque" show at the Aladdin Casino; clips feature showgirls dancing in various scenes; a short clip of comedian Irving Benson; additional acts in the show. Original media 16mm, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 2048 x 1556. From The Production Company Audiovisual Collection (MS-00930) -- Digitized audiovisual material file.
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Raya Meron oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Raya Meron conducted by Claytee D. White on July 14, 2014 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Meron discusses her upbringing in Israel, moving to Istanbul with her husband, and immigrating to Canada after their divorce. Meron also talks about her career as a showgirl in Las Vegas, Nevada, including being in the Vive les Girls road show in 1965. She then discusses her involvement in helping Cambodian refugees.
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Film transparency of the Tropicana Hotel's float entry in the Helldorado Parade, Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, May, 1957
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An Interview with Judith Lee Johnson Jones
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Oral history interview with Judith Lee Johnson Jones conducted by Claytee D. White on February 22, 2007 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Johnson Jones discusses winning a contest that allowed her to be a showgirl at the Sands Hotel and Casino when she was seventeen, receiving a college degree in Houston, Texas, and performing in the Elvis movie “Viva Las Vegas.” She also talks about her twenty-nine-year career in education.
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Mary Leo oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Mary Leo conducted by Rafael Reyes-Spindola on February 27, 1980 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Mary Susanne Kaime Leo moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1952. In the interview, Leo discusses community interactions during her childhood, as well as her employment with the Tropicana Las Vegas and the Riviera Hotel & Casino in the restaurant and sales departments. She also discusses the lifestyles of showgirls she interacted with.
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