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Photograph of Marla Letizia, Las Vegas (Nev.), March 02, 2017

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2017-03-02

Description

Longtime Las Vegas resident and Jewish community member Marla Letizia at home.

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Photograph of Marla Letizia, Las Vegas (Nev.), March 02, 2017

Date

2017-03-02

Description

Longtime Las Vegas resident and Jewish community member Marla Letizia at home.

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Photograph of Marla Letizia, Las Vegas (Nev.), March 02, 2017

Date

2017-03-02

Description

Longtime Las Vegas resident and Jewish community member Marla Letizia is interviewed at home for Jewish Family services.

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Photograph of Tom and Marla Letizia, Las Vegas (Nev.), March 02, 2017

Date

2017-03-02

Description

Longtime Las Vegas residents Tom and Marla Letizia at home.

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Photograph of Tom and Marla Letizia, Las Vegas (Nev.), March 02, 2017

Date

2017-03-02

Description

Longtime Las Vegas residents Tom and Marla Letizia at home.

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Audio clips from interview with Marla Letizia, August 26, 2015

Date

2015-08-26

Description

Marla Letizia discusses how she became president of Congregation Ner Tamid after being part of the board of the Meadows School. She also talks about growing up in Las Vegas and going to the Sahara to see performers.

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Transcript of interview with Marla Letizia by Barbara Tabach, August 26, 2015

Date

2015-08-26

Description

In this interview, Letizia discusses her career, and breaking gender barriers in both broadcasting as well as in advertising. She also talks about how her family ended up settling in Las Vegas, and the evolution of her relationship with Judaism from childhood to adulthood, eventually leading to her leadership roles with Congregation Ner Tamid as well as Jewish Federation, where she is on the Board of Directors.

Marla R. Letizia is the founder of Big Traffic Mobile Billboards in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company operates mobile billboard advertising trucks and employs brand ambassadors to carry WOBI? walking billboards for retail, gaming, and entertainment clients such as Caesars entertainment, Tropicana, and Cirque Du Soleil. Letizia founded Big Traffic in 2001 after leaving a successful broadcast journalism career to raise her two children. She met her husband, Tom Letizia, while working at KLAS-TV Channel 8 as an assistant production manager. She later became the first female director of live television news broadcasts in Las Vegas at Channel 8. She also developed a TV show called "Las Vegas Turnaround" and a syndicated production called "The Parenting Network." Letizia grew up in Las Vegas, and is a former president of Congregation Ner Tamid and a founding member of the board of trustees of the Meadows School in Las Vegas. In this interview, Letizia discusses her career, and breaking gender barriers in both broadcasting as well as in advertising. She also talks about how her family ended up settling in Las Vegas, and the evolution of her relationship with Judaism from childhood to adulthood, eventually leading to her leadership roles with Congregation Ner Tamid as well as Jewish Federation, where she is on the Board of Directors.

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Annual Report of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, 2013

Date

2013

Archival Collection

Description

Annual report from the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas for 2013.

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Congregation Ner Tamid Annual Report, 2006-2007

Date

2006 to 2007

Archival Collection

Description

2006-2007 annual report for Congregation Ner Tamid on the Greenspun Campus for Jewish life, learning, and spiritual renewal. The report includes statements, events, communities activities, statements, and photographs.

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Transcript of interview with Freddie Glusman by Barbara Tabach, October 29, 2015

Date

2015-10-29

Description

In this interview Glusman discusses his early memories of being raised in Vancouver, Canada and how he ended up in Las Vegas. He reflects on how he first got his start in the town and his early dealings with casinos and their owners while he was working as a carpet and drapery salesman and while working for Fabulous Magazine. Glusman explains how he started his restaurant and tells about the people he encountered while doing this that where significant to both the Jewish community and Las Vegas as a whole. He recounts stories that include such people as Meyer Lansky, Al Sachs, and Moe Dalitz.

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