Harold Hind and his wife, Betty Hind, seated around a large table with others, probably at the Thunderbird Hotel, which opened on September 2, 1948. Site Name: Thunderbird Hotel (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Eight photographs from "Avec Plaisir" a Lido (Paris) production staged by Donn Arden, 1959. These are from a scene entitled "Au Temps des Tzars." Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)
Five photos from the Donn Arden staged production "Rhapsodie Ecossaise," a show held at the Lido in Paris, France. Pictured is a scene from "Avec Plaisir." Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)
Two photos from "Lido Circus," a scene in the stage production "Avec Plaisir" held at the Lido in Paris, France. "Avec Plaisir" was staged by Donn Arden. Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)
Three photographs of dancers in the Lido at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The show was staged by Donn Arden. Credit for creating the images goes to David Workman Photography. Site Name: Stardust Resort and Casino
In 1984, with the advice of his father ringing in his ears, Brad Nelson uprooted his wife and two children from their Denver home and moved them to Henderson, Nevada, where he would begin a new adventure in shaping the new master-planned community of Green Valley with Mark Fine and American Nevada Corporation (ANC). Nelson, lifelong Nebraskan and only child of his parents, arrived armed with a Bachelor's degree in landscape architecture with urban planning option, a Master's degree in urban planning, and fifteen years of planning and executive experience with the national firm of Harmon, O'Donnell and Henniger Planning Consultants. He arrived in time to plan Green Valley's first village, the Village of Silver Spring. By the time he left ANC for Lake Las Vegas in 1999, his work was done and most large parcels had been sold. As Nelson puts it, by 1999 ANC was "out of land, and I'm a land guy." Lake Las Vegas had plenty of undeveloped land, so "land guy" Nelson a chief operating officer