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Eddie Escobedo Sr. and son Eddie Jr. drafting "El Mundo", the largest Spanish-language weekly newspaper in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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The success of "El Mundo," the largest Spanish-language weekly newspaper in Las Vegas, is indicative of the tremendous increase in the Hispanic population. El Mundo was started in 1980 by Eddie Escobedo, a Las Vegas born in Torreon, Mexico. Escobedo served at Nellis Air Base during the 1950's and decided to make Las Vegas his home. Escobedo is assisted above by his son, Eddie Jr.
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Rafael Vega and his mother, Mary, standing inside one of their many businesses: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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In 1978, after successfully operating Casa Vega, a popular Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles, California, Rafael Vega, his family, and his mother, Mary, moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. Since then, under the leadership of Rafael, the Vega's have started a series of successful businesses which today comprise Vegas Enterprises. In 1985, Vega Enterprises had gross revenues of $21 million.
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Beatriz Gutierrez, one of the first female Spanish langauge disc jockeys in Las Vegas, working at KUNV radio: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Beatriz Gutierrez was possibly the first female Spanish language radio disc jockey in 1980's Las Vegas. Her program was the forerunner of other Spanish language radio programs and television Spanish language music and talk shows like those shown on major media providers like Univision and Telemundo.
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Cynthia Leyva, age 7, attending school in Clark County, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Bright eyed and engrossed in her lesson, elementary school student, Cynthia Leyva, age 7, personifies the tremendous growth of Hispanic students in the Clark County School District.
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Members of the Nicaraguan Association of Las Vegas standing with a Catholic priest: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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The Nicaraguan Association of Las Vegas includes members who fled their country because they could not tolerate the repressive Marxist regime that took over after the Sandinistas toppled the U.S. backed dictator, Antonio Samoza in 1978. The priest at the center of the photograph said he wanted to return to Nicaragua but cannot because he had been critical of the Sandinista government who does not tolerate any form of criticism.
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Fernando Perez, Sales Manager for Las Vegas Convention Center, stands inside an empty hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Tourism and Conventions are the lifeblood of Las Vegas. Accordingly, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority spends millions of dollars on national advertising to attract tourists and conventioneers. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority also operates the Las Vegas Convention Center, the largest single-level convention facility in the United States with more than 1 million square feet of exhibit space. Shown above in one of the huge convention halls is Fernando Perez, the Sales Manager for the Convention Center. Born in Cuba, Perez has worked in the Hotel-Tourism field for over 23 years in places like Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico and Nevada.
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Marcelina Sandusky standing in backyard located within the original Sunrise Acres community with the water tower visible in the background: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Around the turn of the century, Ramon Sanchez emigrated from Spain to the United States where he became a rancher in Tremonita, New Mexico. Many years later, his son, Cesario, migrated to Liberal, Kansas, to work on the railroad. It was there that his daughter, Marcelina, pictured above, was born and raised and where she eventually met and married her musician husband, Gene Sandusky. In 1941, the Sanduskys moved to Las Vegas where they settled in a new housing tract called Sunrise Acres. Some 45 years later, Mrs. Sandusky stands in her back yard with the original Sunrise Acres community well and water tower looming prominently in the background. Presently, Mrs. Sandusky is working hard to gather the history of that still cohesive neighborhood, one of the earliest in Las Vegas.
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Nevada Test Site protest sign: photographic slide
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Archival Collection
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From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). Written on sign: "Destroy weapons leave people standin'".
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Nevada Test Site protest sign: photographic slide
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Archival Collection
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From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). Written on sign: "Remember Karen Silkwood Radition -> Cancer".
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Photo of newspaper and magazine: photographic slide
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Archival Collection
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From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). Written on newspaper: "Reagan OKs Neutron Bomb".
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