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Binion's Horseshoe Club and Benny Binion's personal photographs, approximately 1940 to 1985

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Binion’s Horseshoe Club Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00318
Collection Name: Binion’s Horseshoe Club Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box SH-065, Box SH-032

Archival Component

"To Mom on her Birthday" note, Salvation Army certificate for Harold Stocker, Hillsway certificate for Maybe Stocker, approximately 1967 to 1978

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Stocker Family Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00154
Collection Name: Stocker Family Papers
Box/Folder: Box 2

Archival Component

Aerial photograph of Cashman Field and remains of the Mormon Fort, 1960

Date

1960

Description

Aerial view of Cashman Field and Old Mormon Fort looking southeast.

Image

Aerial photograph of Cashman Field and remains of the Mormon Fort looking northeast, 1960

Date

1960

Description

Aerial view of Cashman Field and Old Mormon Fort looking northeast.

Image

Aerial photograph of Cashman Field, southwest direction, after 1947

Date

1948 to 1958

Description

Aerial view of Cashman Field

Image

Aerial photograph of Cashman Field, northwest direction, after 1947

Date

1948 to 1958

Description

Aerial view of Cashman Field

Image

Photograph of the outside view of Binion's Horseshoe Parking Garage (Las Vegas), 1962

Date

1962-12-01

Description

Facade of the Horseshoe parking garage. Stamped on original: "Las Vegas New Bureau - Las Vegas, Nevada. Convention Center - Photographers - Don English. Jerry Abbott. Joe Buck. Milt Palmer. John Cook."
Site Name: Horseshoe Club
Address: 128 East Fremont Street

Image

Photograph of a quarter horse sale on Fremont Street (Las Vegas), April 17, 1968

Date

1968-04-17

Description

Horse sale on Fremont Street at night, showing the neon of the Mint, Horseshoe, and Hotel Fremont, all of which make up part of Glitter Gulch. Stamped on original: "Allen Photographers, Inc. Post Office Box 4253 Las Vegas, Nevada 89106."
Site Name: Fremont Street
Address: Fremont street, Las Vegas, NV

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Photograph of the Horseshoe Hotel & Casino at night (Las Vegas), 1960s

Date

unspecified year in 196X

Description

Night view of the Horseshoe Hotel and Casino. Stamped on original: "Jay Florian Mitchell. Photographer. 614 So. 6th DU 4-5148 Las Vegas, Nevada. Douglass Studio, Inc. 614 South Sixth. Dudley 4-5148. Las Vegas, Nevada."
Site Name: Horseshoe Club
Address: 128 East Fremont Street

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Transcript of interview with Jim Marsh by Claytee D. White, June 5, 2012

Date

2012-06-05

Archival Collection

Description

Jim Marsh in Denver, Colorado. Father was the chief for the Colorado Patrol. Mother lived in Nebraska. Jim split time in both places while growing up. He was a service member of the Army and once getting out of the service he started his work with his father at a Ford dealership. Jim went on to work and own dealership in several different areas, Colorado, California, New Mexico, and Washington states before arriving in Las Vegas, NV in 1971. Once arriving in Las Vegas Marsh purchased a dealership called American Auto Mart. Around 1976 Jim Marsh bought the Santa Fe Saloon along with the twenty lots surrounding it for 12,500. This was his first experience in the gaming industry Marsh was the only dealership in the world for 25 years to have a gaming license in a new-car dealership. Marsh discovered interest in Belmont when there was a lone resident Rose Walter. The two bartered and Jim gained land in Belmont and went on to build a bar and church for the town. Marsh eventually went on to own the Skyline Casino. Jim Marsh founded the Nevada Auto Auction in 1987 on Las Vegas Boulevard South Eventually sold it and used the investment to build the Longstreet Casino. Marsh was' also a member of business organizations, Better Business Bureau and The Red Cross Marsh has been a member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board for at least 25 years. Tonopah is another location that Marsh has invested in. After leasing the gaming at the Mizpah Hotel to later buying the Valley Bank building and moving the gaming from Mizpah. It is still successful today. He also purchased the Tonopah Station House which is a hotel bar, and restaurant; along with owning the grocery store Scolari's next-door. Tonopah has proved to be a very good investment for Jim Marsh.

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