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Transcript of interview with Betty Bunch by Joyce Marshall, January 9, 1996, February 7, 1996, & February 13, 2002

Date

1996-01-09
1996-02-07
2002-02-13

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Betty [Rosenthal] Bunch began dancing as a child. By the time she was nine years old she decided she would have a dancing career. At 18 years she began to work in stock theatre productions. Within a short time, she had joined the Moro-Landis dancers. She landed her first job in Las Vegas in 1956 at the Sahara Hotel as part of the opening line for Donald O'Connor. Following the Sahara, she worked as a dancer at the Riveria, and then returned to the Moulin Rouge in Hollywood. In 1961 while vacationing in Las Vegas, she landed a job dancing at the Dunes. She continued to dance, sing and do comedy until after the birth of her second child. At that time, she retired from the Las Vegas showroom, but not from show business. Her involvement in both film and stage has remained rich and varied. This interview focuses on the time Betty spent performing on the Las Vegas strip, including her long involvement with the acclaimed afternoon show Bottoms Up. The interview provides information on workin

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Transcript of interview with Ruth Urban by Barbara Tabach, August 24, 2015 and September 16, 2015

Date

2015-08-24
2015-09-16

Archival Collection

Description

In this interview, Urban discusses her upbringing in Las Vegas, and childhood friendships, many which came from within the Jewish community. She talks extensively about her professional career and passion for mediation as a strategy for problem-solving. In addition, Urban describes her community service commitments over the years, including her current role with Nevadans for the Common Good. Urban married Andrew Urban Jr. in 1983, and the couple have a son, Andrew Urban III.

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Transcript of interview with Jillian Hrushowy by Joyce Marshall, September 26, 1995

Date

1995-09-26

Description

Jillian Hrushowy arrived in Las Vegas in 1959 as part of a company hired to appear at the El Rancho Vegas Hotel in a production called La Nouvelle Eve. She has remained here (other than three short-term contracts in Reno, Nevada) until present day. She is now the production manager for Legends in Concert at the Imperial Palace Hotel. She was an only child, born in Rhodesia to English parents and raised in a home with servants and tutors. Her mother exposed her to the arts at an early age. Jillian took dancing lessons from the age of three years until she began dancing professionally. When she was fifteen years old, both parents agreed it was time for her to leave Rhodesia and finish her education in England. Living alone was difficult and lonely, but it afforded her a wealth of opportunities otherwise unavailable. She worked as a dancer in small, local productions while still in high school. When only eighteen, she got a job dancing in La Nouvelle Eve in Paris which eventually came to Las Vegas. This interview focuses on the years from Jillian’s arrival in 1959 until she retired from dancing in 1979. It follows her transitions from dancer, to principal dancer to production manager. [The first twenty minutes of the tape is warped and the text is garbled. The transcriber has lightly edited the transcript.]

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Photograph of Lilly Fong, circa late 1960s-1980s

Date

1967 to 1989

Description

Lilly Fong, member of the University of Nevada Board of Regents, and Las Vegas, Nevada civic leader and philanthropist.

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Photograph of Lilly Fong, 1974

Date

1974

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Lilly Fong, member of the University of Nevada Board of Regents, and Las Vegas, Nevada civic leader and philantrhopist.

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Photograph of Freda (Humphrey) Schuyler, Wilmington North Carolina, circa 1957

Date

1957

Description

Freda (Humphrey) Schuyler at approximately 56 years of age.

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Photograph of Samuel Newhouse and party waiting for private car, Caliente (Nev.), 1906

Date

1906

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Samuel Newhouse's party waiting in Caliente for private car to Salt Lake 1906

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Photograph of the Newhouse party at Caliente Depot, Caliente (Nev.), 1906

Date

1906

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Samuel Newhouse's party waiting in Caliente for private car to Salt Lake 1906

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Photograph of the Samuel Newhouse party in Caliente departing for Salt Lake City, Caliente (Nev.), 1906

Date

1906

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Samuel Newhouse's party waiting in Caliente for private car to Salt Lake 1906

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Photograph of three women gold panning at Resting Spring Ranch, Warner Spring (Nev.), 1915

Date

1915

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Caption: L-R Dora Lee Brown, Clara Lee, unidentified

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