Dormitories, trains, and various buildings are visible when looking down at the camp set up for the Hoover Dam construction workers. Site Name: Hoover Dam (dam)
Oral history interview with Talia Levanon conducted by Barbara Tabach on January 21, 2019 for the Remembering 1 October Oral History Project. In this interview, Levanon discusses her role as the Director of Israel Trauma Coalition (ITC), an organization that provides trauma care and counseling in Israel and around the world. She recalls that three weeks after the 1 October shooting, she and a team from ITC arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada to offer training and support and worked closely with Las Vegas Metro Police Department.
Samuel Newman describes his experience during the Holocaust and being separated from his siblings at different orphanages. He was in Kyrgyzstan from 1943 to 1946, and at an orphanage in Poland until 1951. Newman trained in graphic arts and spent some time in the military in Israel. He came to the United States in 1968.
Oral history interview with Luther Pennington conducted by Greg Decker on February 27, 1979 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Pennington discusses working on the trains for the Union Pacific Railroad Company starting in 1927 and explains the various jobs he held on the train. Pennington then describes his position as locomotive engineer and recalls his experiences. Later, he discusses train routes, stations, and the dangers of working aboard a train.
79.1 Three unidentified women sitting on the ground. ; 79.2 Photo of a Salt lake train engine, #3705. Photo was identified as "passenger pigs". ; 79.3 Unidentified woman. ; 79.4 Photo of people sitting in a little train in front of a groceteria. Building to the right is a filling station and the sign on top says Venice. [could have been taken in Venice, California?] ; 79.5 Jump, photo of empty train cars taken so we are looking down on them from a tower or high place. ; 79.6 Salt Lake route best, photo of a train engine, #3432.