Oral history interview with Allard Roen conducted by David G. Schwartz on October 31, 2003 for the UNLV University Libraries Oral History Collection. In this interview, Roen talks about the history of the Desert Inn Hotel, the Desert Inn Country Club, and the Desert Inn Golf Course and Tournament of Champions. He shares numerous stories and anecdotes about Las Vegas, Nevada casino-hotel figures, including Cecil Simmons, Morris "Moe" Dalitz, Wilbur Clark, and Howard Hughes. He also talks about the formation of the Nevada Resort Association, property development, and negotiating with labor unions and construction companies, including his 1960 work with the NAACP's James McMillan to eliminate racial segregation at the Desert Inn and Stardust hotels.
Guests Allard Roen, right, and his father at Wilbur Clark's birthday party in Las Vegas, Nevada. Allard Roen was general manager of Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn.
Two black and white photographs of people at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, Nevada. Handwritten under the left image: "The D.I. Bridge." Handwritten under the right image: " "Bo" Wininger - tv - Star and Tourney "Queen" Barbara Parkins kisses Annie Palmel, winner of the 1965 T-of-C Allard Roen."
Three images of people at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, Nevada. Going clockwise from left to right: the text under the first image reads: "beautiful putters"; the second text reads: "Gordon McRail and Walter Winchell"; and the third text reads: "Howard Copps and Allard Roen try out a new golf cart."
Oral history interview with Ann Lynch conducted by Sandra Klimik on October 17, 1985 for the UNLV University Libraries Oral History Collection. In this interview, Lynch briefly explains how she started working in hospitals as a volunteer in 1959 and then gives an overview of the development of hospitals in Las Vegas, Nevada. Most of the interview is directed at the development and history of Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas. Lynch discusses the developers, Irwin Molasky, Moe Dalitz, Allard Roen and Merv Adelson, and their the original goal to build a physician medical building to attract doctors to their planned community, which included the Las Vegas Country Club and gold course, the Boulevard Mall, and the Boulevard Apartments. She describes the opening of the hospital in 1958, and then moves into a more detailed discussion of nurses and how their roles have shifted since the 1960s. Finally, she talks about the city's growth and the economic burden insurance companies and federal programs like Medicare and Medicaid have on hospital profitability.