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Interview with Ernest Benjamin Williams, March 26, 2004
Date
2004-03-26
Archival Collection
Description
Narrator affiliation: Budget and Logistics, Atomic Energy Commission, U.S. Department of Energy
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Transcript of bus tour of "Jewish Las Vegas" by Temple Beth Sholom, May 17, 2015
Date
2015-05-17
Archival Collection
Description
Temple Beth Sholom organized and led a bus tour of parts of Las Vegas that are significant in local Jewish history. Stops on the tour included Woodlawn Cemetery and the former Temple Beth Sholom campus on Oakey Boulevard. Narrator Arlene Blut gives the overview of the Jewish community, and Rabbi Felipe Goodman talks to tour participants at the cemetery. Former Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman speaks at the old synagogue along with Josh Abbey, whose mother created the stained glass windows at the temple.
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Interview with Ann G. Dye, November 1, 2004
Date
2004-11-01
Archival Collection
Description
Narrator affiliation: Program Manager, ReeCO in support of Department of Defense, Los Alamos National Laboratory & Sandia Programs
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Las Vegas Rotary Club 50th Anniversary Program, 1973
Date
1973
Archival Collection
Description
50 year anniversary program for the Las Vegas Rotary Club, from 1923-1973.
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Charles Guy interview, 1995: transcript
Date
1995-04-06
1995-04-14
1995-04-21
1995-05-19
Archival Collection
Description
Guy begins by talking about his birth in Brazil, Indiana, his early work selling Civilian Conservation Corps magazine subscriptions, and his travels across the United States before arriving in Boulder City, Nevada in 1938. Next, Guy recalls his early memories of Boulder City, the Las Vegas Wash, and his work at the Boulder Beach campgrounds at Lake Mead Recreation Area and in Overton, Nevada. Guy also discusses the campgrounds' working conditions, entertainment, access to amenities, and work associates. Afterwards, Guy talks about his time as a railroad worker in Indiana and Las Vegas, Nevada, Block 16 in Las Vegas, Las Vegas entertainers, working as a volunteer fire fighter, and anecdotes about people in his personal life.
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Transcript of interview with Adele Baratz by Claytee D. White, March 19, 2007
Date
2007-03-19
Archival Collection
Description
Interview with Adele Baratz by Claytee White on March 19, 2007. In this interview, Baratz talks about her parents who came to the United States as teenagers from Russia and eventually settled in Las Vegas after a short time in California. She discusses the Jewish community in Las Vegas when she was growing up, and her father's job selling bootlegging supplies, then as a real estate broker, then as a bar owner. Baratz attended the Fifth Street Grammar School, which was built after a fire destroyed the original school, and Las Vegas High School. As a teenager, she worked at Nellis as a messenger and in the rations department, then went to nursing school in Baltimore at Sinai Hospital. She talks about her father's bar, "Al's Bar," that was popular with Union Pacific Railroad workers, and how the bar was forced out for the building of the Golden Nugget. Baratz recounts where her family lived, the growth of the Jewish community, and building the first synagogue on Carson Street.
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Program from Christmas with Class at the Thomas and Mack Center, December 16, 1983
Date
1983-12-16
Description
This program is from the gala opening of the Thomas and Mack Center at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in 1983, which featured a celebrity lineup including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Diana Ross. The program provides details of the contributions of Jerome Mack and Parry Thomas to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Dennis McBride LGBTQ Poster and Sign Collection
Identifier
MS-00842
Abstract
The Dennis McBride LGBTQ Poster and Sign Collection (1977-2018) contains posters and signs created by the Las Vegas, Nevada Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) community, collected by historian Dennis McBride. These handmade and commercially printed signs cover events of particular interest to the Las Vegas, Nevada LGBTQ community, including social events, entertainment venues, political rallies, and Gay Pride events.
Archival Collection