Photographer's note: "Second generation concrete base design for heliostats (a single deeper hole and a much simplified construction process), on site photo, Crescent Dunes Solar, near Tonopah, Nevada, USA." Photographer's assigned keywords: "110 megawatts; CSP; Concentrated Solar Energy; Concentrated Solar Power; Crescent Dunes; NV; Nevada; Solar Reserve; SolarReserve; Tonopah; concentrated solar thermal; green energy; ground-based photo; molten salt; on-site; renewable energy; storage; tower."
William Gekakis interviews his friend airline pilot Paul A. Beach (b. 1922) at his home, about Las Vegas, Nevada history. Beach, who moved to Las Vegas in 1952, covers topics including housing, physical boundaries of the city, the airport, church, transportation, tourist recreation, the economy, Nellis Air Force Base, the Strip, industries, presidential visits, the Korean War, atomic tests, and the educational system.