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Photograph of Robert D. "Bob" Fisher, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 15, 2016

Date

2016-05-15

Description

Longtime Las Vegas broadcaster Robert D. "Bob" Fisher works during the taping of his weekly radio show "America's Diabetes Hour" broadcast from the Beasley Group's 2920 S Durango Drive location on KDWN AM 720. Fisher came to Las Vegas in 1992 to become the founding president and CEO of the Nevada Broadcasters Association (NVBA). He held that position for 22 years.

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Photograph of Robert D. "Bob" Fisher, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 15, 2016

Date

2016-05-15

Description

Longtime Las Vegas broadcaster Robert D. "Bob" Fisher works during the taping of his weekly radio show "America's Diabetes Hour" broadcast from the Beasley Group's 2920 S Durango Drive location on KDWN AM 720. Fisher came to Las Vegas in 1992 to become the founding president and CEO of the Nevada Broadcasters Association (NVBA). He held that position for 22 years.

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Photograph of Robert D. "Bob" Fisher, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 15, 2016

Date

2016-05-15

Description

Longtime Las Vegas broadcaster Robert D. "Bob" Fisher works during the taping of his weekly radio show "America's Diabetes Hour" broadcast from the Beasley Group's 2920 S Durango Drive location on KDWN AM 720. Fisher came to Las Vegas in 1992 to become the founding president and CEO of the Nevada Broadcasters Association (NVBA). He held that position for 22 years.

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Photograph of Death Valley Scotty and others, Bonnie Claire (Nev.), 1950

Date

1950

Description

Walter Edward Perry Scott, also known as the famous "Death Valley Scotty" stands on the left (in the hat) next to other unidentified individuals. Inscription with photo reads: "The road he predicted in 1880 would be made. 1880 to 1951 becoming a reality 'The Scotty Castle' road. Scotty's first public appearance in many years. He's getting public." See Images 0131 0273-0278 for more. Site Name: Scotty's Castle (Death Valley, Calif.)

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Photograph of John Cahlan, Claude Perkins, and members of Las Vegas High School's 50th graduating class, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1980

Date

1980

Description

Las Vegas's 75th anniversary and Diamond Jubilee Celebrations Chairman John Cahlan, left, stopped by Las Vegas High School to congratulate three members of the school's 50th graduating class-from left to right, Veronica McCullough, Steven Katz, and Kim Harney. Superintendent of Schools Claude G. Perkins, far right, announced that this year's diploma will bear the Diamond Jubilee Seal. Site Name: Las Vegas High School (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Photograph of Virginia Page, Miss Las Vegas, Sands Hotel, June 2, 1957

Date

1957-06-02

Archival Collection

Description

Nineteen year old Virginia Page from Brighton, England, winner of Meet Me In Las Vegas contest. Page, as Miss Las Vegas, won a trip to Las Vegas for a week starting June 2, 1957. Here she can be seen wearing a white bathing suit, a sash, and a crown. From left to right, the people standing in the picture include Bob Ottaway, Charles Goldsmith, Virginia Page (Miss Las Vegas), Glen Cradely (Trans World Airlines), and Yolande Donlan (Chairman of the panel of judges for the contest).

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Saharan Magazine from the Sahara Hotel and Casino, February 1966

Date

1966-02

Description

The February 1966 edition of The Saharan Magazine, a magazine created by the Sahara Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Headlines in the magazine include: "Sahara Winder Lineup: Kinds and DeCastros", "Canadian Tops Winners in Sahara Anniversary", "Sahara Airlines Attendance Soars Over 6,000 Mark", "Sahara Becomes "Shooting Headquarters" in 1966", and "Thunderbird Cash Binge!"

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Photograph of the interior of Hughes Tool Co., Houston, Texas, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

Transcribed from attached press release: HUGHES TOOL COMPANY Cornerstone of the industrial empire of Howard Hughes is the Hughes Tool Company of Houston, Texas, which last year produced more than half a million rock bits for drilling the kind of deep wells now producing 90 per cent of the world's petroleum. In the company's mechanical testing section (above) engineers test the products under conditions simulating actual drilling. Howard Hughes' father's invention of the rock bit is believed to be one of the most important industrial developments of the century; without such a tool we might still be living in a horse and buggy era."

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Photograph of Mayor Oran K. Gragson (left) with author Earl Wilson, circa 1971

Date

1969 to 1972

Archival Collection

Description

Las Vegas Mayor Oran K. Gragson (left) with author Earl Wilson. Mayor Gragson is holding a copy of Earl's book, The Show Business Nobody Knows. A large cake decorated as a newspaper announcing the publishing of the book sits on the table in front of them. The location where the photograph was taken is unknown. Oran Kenneth Gragson (February 14, 1911 – October 7, 2002) was an American businessman and politician. He was the longest-serving mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, from 1959 to 1975. Gragson, a member of the Republican Party, was a small business owner who was elected Mayor on a reform platform against police corruption and for equal opportunity for people of all socio-economic and racial categories. Gragson died in a Las Vegas hospice on October 7, 2002, at the age of 91. The Oran K. Gragson Elementary School located at 555 N. Honolulu Street, Las Vegas, NV 89110 was named in his honor. Earl Wilson (May 3, 1907–January 16, 1987), born Harvey Earl Wilson, was an American journalist, gossip columnist and author, perhaps best known for his nationally syndicated newspaper column, It Happened Last Night. Wilson's column originated from the New York Post and ran from 1942 until 1983. His chronicling of the Broadway theatre scene during the "Golden Age" of show business formed the basis for a book published in 1971, The Show Business Nobody Knows. He signed his columns with the tag line, "That's Earl, brother." His nickname was "Midnight Earl". In later years, the name of his column was changed to Last Night With Earl Wilson. In his final years with the Post, he alternated with the paper's entertainment writer and restaurant critic, Martin Burden, in turning out the column. (Burden, who died in 1993, took over the Last Night column full-time upon Wilson's retirement.) Wilson is also the author of two controversial books, Show Business Laid Bare, and an unauthorized biography of Frank Sinatra, Sinatra – An Unauthorized Biography. The former book is notable for revealing the extramarital affairs of President John F. Kennedy.

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Photograph of a man working on rock bit drilling pieces at the Hughes Tool Co., Houston, Texas, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

Transcribed from attached press release: "HUGHES ROCK BIT PRODUCTION more than 500,000 rock bits produced last year by the Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, for drilling the kind of deep wells which now produce 90 per cent of the world's petroleum. The rock bit was invented by Howard Hughes' father and the resulting business became the cornerstone on which Howard Hughes built his industrial empire. The machinist above is performing an operation on the cones which make up the rotating end of the Hughes rock bit." Transcribed from photo sleeve: "The Kearney and Trecker 4 spindle machine at the Hughes Tool Company in Houston, Texas. Ca. 1950s."

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