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Showboat Hotel and Casino b-roll for promotional videos: video
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Archival Collection
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B-roll of interior of Showboat casino; guests walking inside and viewing the large riverboat painting; guests going up the elevator and views of the rotunda. Video cuts out at times and camera operator directions can be heard throughout. Original media U-matic S, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486. From The Production Company Audiovisual Collection (MS-00930) -- Digitized audiovisual material file.
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Promotional videos for Bob Stupak's Vegas World: video
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Archival Collection
Description
Commercial for Bob Stupak's Vegas World shows footage of the interior of space-themed Vegas World while voice narrates over description of the casino being "out of this world"; commercial runs twice. Original media U-matic S, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486. From The Production Company Audiovisual Collection (MS-00930) -- Digitized audiovisual material file.
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Evans, Dorothy Casner, 1913-1993
Dorothy Casner Evans arrived in Tonopah, Nevada in 1938. She started working for her brother-in-law, Dave Roberts, as a bookkeeper at his freighting and house-moving business (Dave is the husband of Ellen Roberts, Dorothy's sister). She later started driving trucks and moving houses for the company. In 1950, Evans left the house-moving business and began working at the Tonopah Club. She left the Tonopah Club in 1962 to take a job as deputy sheriff in Mercury, Nevada. Dorothy Casner Evans died on November 24, 1993.
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