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Transcript of interview with Lendon Kaye Barney by Kelly Adams, March 3, 1978

Date

1978-03-03

Description

Kelly Adams interviews Lendon Barney (b. 1925) about his experiences as an early resident of Bunkerville, Nevada. Barney also discusses his membership in the Mormon church, as well as his career as a music teacher for schools in Clark County. Barney also describes some of the early development and changes in Nevada, such as the population growth, changes in housing prices, and the building of highways.

Text

Lena Carl Stewart with a rifle and a dog near a creek: photograph

Date

1900 to 1925

Archival Collection

Description

Lena Carl Stewart holding a rifle, and a dog with a duck in its mouth, by a creek on an unidentified property, probably the Las Vegas Ranch.

Image

Photograph of Round Mountain (Nev.), early 190s

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Photograph of Round Mountain (Nev.), early 190s

Image

The Light & Power Company building: photographic print

Date

1900 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)

Description

A street scene with people and a horse-drawn buggy. The Light & Power Company building is visible in the foreground. The location is possibly Goldfield, Nev.

Image

Text Rickards Drill arrival for mining: photographic print

Date

1900 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)

Description

Large blurry aerial group image. Center of photo reads "Arrival of Tex Rickards Drill for Mining and Water Rawhide Northern Water Co."

Image

Whitaker, Dean, 1925-

William Dean Whitaker was born in 1925 and raised in a suburb of Los Angeles,
California. Dean, as he is known, talks briefly about his parents and his brothers, for his youth quickly ended when he joined the Air Force and became an aviation cadet once he had turned 18 years old. The year was 1943 and World War II was raging. He became a member of the 398 th Bomb Group and flew twenty missions before being captured by the Germans.

Person

Toxton, Candy, 1925-2005

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Toxton

 

American Actress, born "Florence Tockstein"

 

Nov 12, 1925 - December 28, 2005

Person