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Photographs of Jerry Mack with politicians, 1980s

Date

1980 to 1985

Description

Photographs show Jerry Mack with local and national politicians.

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Photographs of Joyce and Jerry Mack at Las Vegas events

Date

1990 to 1999

Description

Group of photographs of Joyce and Jerry Mack at local Las Vegas events.

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Photographs of Joyce and Jerry Mack and family, 1970s

Date

1970 to 1979

Description

Group of photographs of Joyce Mack with her family on vacation.

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Photographs of Jerry Mack and others at the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty signing at the White House, 1979

Date

1979

Description

Group of photographs taken at the White House during the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty signing in 1979. The photographs show President Jimmy Carter and Henry Kissinger.

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Minutes Temple Beth Sholom Board of Directors meetings, September 1952 - December 1956

Date

1952 to 1956

Archival Collection

Description

The meeting minutes of the board of directors of Temple Beth Sholom, then known as the Jewish Community Center of Las Vegas, Inc., include the proceedings of meetings held from 1952 to 1956. Also included are periodic reports from committees of the board such as Jewish education, cemetery, and building committees, and budget reports.

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Handwritten list of names of Jewish people living in Las Vegas in the 1940s

Date

1946-09-26

Archival Collection

Description

This list was written by Charles Salton, brother of Adele Baratz. Salton lists the names of Jewish people living in Las Vegas in the 1940s. The list is dated September 26, 1946.

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Photograph of the Danny Kolod Building at Temple Beth Sholom during construction.

Date

1960 to 1965

Description

Black and white photograph during the construction of the Danny Kolod building at Temple Beth Sholom. Members pictured: Al Benedict, Stan Irwin, Jerry Mack, Irving Devine, Ruby Kolod, Rabbi Aaron Gold, Max Goot and Yale Cohen.

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Photograph of a group of men dressed in costumes, 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

A group of men from the Las Vegas Jewish Community Center are dressed in women's dresses and hats, possibly for a fundraising event. Seated L-R: Kay Wallerstein, Louis Mack, Dave Zenoff, Al Goot, and Adam Gobel. Standing L-R: "Doc" Knoller, Dave Messing, Ben Rosenfeld, unidentified, and Jerry Mack.

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Photograph of past presidents of Temple Beth Sholom, Las Vegas (Nev.), circa 1978

Date

1977 to 1979

Description

A group photograph of past presidents of Temble Beth Sholom in Las Vegas, Nevada. From left to right, the men standing are identified as: Melvin Moss, Jack Entratter, Harry Wallenstein, Al Goot, David Zenoff, and Jerry Mack. From left to right, the men seated are identified as: Nate Mack (Jerry's father), Mike Gordon, and Lloyd Katz.

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Transcript of interview with Joyce Mack by Barbara Tabach, February 23, 2015

Date

2015-02-23

Archival Collection

Description

In this interview, Joyce Mack discusses meeting her husband, Jerry Mack, in Los Angeles,their early life as a couple, and moving to Las Vegas at the suggestion of Jerry's father, Nate Mack. She discusses how Jerry met Parry Thomas and their banking and real estate investments. Mrs. Mack talks about the opening of the Thomas and Mack Center at UNLV, and the development of the strip hotels, and discusses her children.

Joyce Mack: wife to Jerry Mack and matriarch of one of the most influential families of Las Vegas history. During this oral history conversation, she begins by tracing her family ancestry from Kiev to New York to Omaha and then Los Angeles, where she was born and raised. At a UCLA fraternity party in the early 1940s, a teenage Joyce Rosenberg was swept off her feet by her older brother's friend Jerry Mack. Jerry was from Boulder City, Nevada and had attended school in Las Vegas. In 1946, the couple married and took an extended honeymoon throughout the United States and Cuba. Soon afterwards, Jerry's father Nate Mack, a businessman and real estate developer encouraged the newlyweds to come to Las Vegas. She tells of Jerry sharing his vision of the valley's future. Thus began a successful journey that traverses decades of Las Vegas history and breathtaking growth in which the Macks were active participants and leaders. Joyce recalls the people the first met, who they raised their children side-by-side with and became lasting friends. These people were other Las Vegas pioneers including the Greenspuns and mostly importantly her husband's partnership with Parry Thomas which created the Bank of Las Vegas. It was their partnership she explains that reduced the presence of the mob element. As members of the small Jewish community of the late 1940s, the Macks would participate in the founding of Temple Beth Sholom.

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