Color photograph of Debbie Conway assisting and coordinating the Martin Luther King Statue Dedication Ceremony.
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Color photograph of Debbie Conway (right) hosting the KCEP Power 88.1 radio talk show "Economic Empowerment into the 21st Century."
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Color photograph of Debbie Conway (left) in the studio hosting the KCEP Power 88.1 radio talk show "Economic Empowerment into the 21st Century.
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Color photograph of Debbie Conway in the studio hosting the KCEP Power 88.1 radio talk show "Economic Empowerment into the 21st Century."
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Debbie Conway stands with an unidentified woman at the Summer Business Institute Fundraiser.
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Color photograph of Debbie Conway (center left) presiding over a meeting of the Small Business Development Advisory Council.
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Color photograph of Debbie Conway with a group during a workshop for the small businesses in Clark County.
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Debbie Conway is pictured with Les Brown and Ramon Savoy. The First West Las Vegas Job Fair was held on the grounds of the Vons' Shopping Center now known as the Edmond Center.
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Courtney Mooney is the Urban Design Coordinator for the City of Las Vegas. Her job description includes a knowledge of historic preservation, which is her passion. In this interview she shares her professional and personal thoughts about John S. Park Neighborhood. She moved to John S. Park in 2002. As a professional she explains that "how I look at preserving neighborhoods or buildings, is more of a community preservation, not saving the individual building for the individual building's sake..." Courtney offers a big picture of the neighborhood's past, present and future. John S. Park, like so many other Las Vegas neighborhoods, was built during World War II and has been affected by history of segregation and the wave of changing demographics, and the work that went into the plan and requirements to be designated a historic neighborhood. Courtney provides a summary of the story about the land, its ownership and what lead to the foundation of the neighborhood: from John S. Park to George Franklin and John Law, to Mary Dutton and explains how the proposed development of the land differed from other communities being built to FHA standards and specifics that declared Las Vegas a Defense City in the 1940s. She lists the factors that made the neighborhood a logical and important target for the historic designation, a small neighborhood tucked away, that is "a snapshot of the types of people that were coming here," filled with community leaders, entrepreneurs, blue-collar and casino workers. She also mentions about the missed opportunity of the Las Vegas High School neighborhood for preservation while supporting the John S. Park designation.
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Courtney Mooney, Historic Preservation Officer for City of Las Vegas, is interviewed by the media during the unveiling of the banners in the Berkley Square neighborhood of Las Vegas, February 9, 2013.
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