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This set includes: 7-Eleven reference sheets, site plans, canopy details, reflected ceiling plans, general specifications, grading plans, utility plans, site plans, electrical plans and mechanical plans.
This set includes drawings by James Calvin Smith (engineer).
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Aerial view looking northeast showing Basic Magnesium's terminal reservoir site and 40" pipeline ditch.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from front of photo: " Basic Magnesium, Inc., Acting for and in behalf of Defense Plant Corp. Plancor 201, Engineers LTD. Contractor, For water services, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1-5-42"
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The building surveys series (1930-2001) contains historic building surveys created by students from multiple semesters of Ralph Roske's History 117 course. Locations include private homes, businesses, and government-owned sites. The materials compiled include histories provided by interviews with informants, building material types, blueprints, photographs, and fliers or pamphlets related to the sites.
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Ashley Hall was born April 3, 1943 in Caliente, Nevada. After high school, he worked for the Union Pacific Railroad at the Nevada Test Site as a cashier and as a signalman. He later attended Brigham Young University and the University of Nevada, Reno. After college, Hall served the City of Las Vegas in significant ways. Notably, as City Manager he was instrumental in the initial development of Summerlin, Nevada. Though he has retired from local politics, he remains active as the President of the Old Spanish Trail Association and as the U.S. Army Reserve Ambassador.
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