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Photograph of Nate Jacobson and Jimmy Hoffa at the opening of Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 5, 1966
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of Steve Lawrence, Jay Sarno, Edyie Gormé and Nate Jacobson, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 25, 1966
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Nate Jacobson and Jimmy Hoffa at the opening of Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1966 August 05
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Bill Willard Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 05
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Carolyn Goodman oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Carolyn Goodman conducted by David Schwartz on January 21, 2009 for the Remembering Jay Sarno Oral History Project. In this interview, Goodman talks about her friendships with Nate Jacobson, Jerry Zarowitz, and Elliot Price. She describes the business relationship that they had with Jay Sarno, the increase of casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada during the 1960s, and their contributions to the development of the Las Vegas Strip.
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Edythe Katz-Yarchever oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Edythe Katz-Yarchever conducted by David Schwartz in 2006 for the UNLV University Libraries Oral History Collection. In this interview, Katz-Yarchever discusses 1960s Las Vegas, Nevada, the opening of the Caesar's Palace Hotel and Casino, Nate Jacobson, and William "Billy" Weinberger and his wife Jean. She also talks about Jake Freedman, president of the Sands Hotel and Casino. She also spends time talking about race relations and discrimination in Las Vegas businesses and community, the Westside, and the three movie theatres she and her husband, Lloyd Katz, owned in the city.
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Jacobson, Nate
Nathan "Nate" Jacobson was the president of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada during the 1960s. Formerly an insurance executive and a part-owner of the Baltimore Bullets basketball team, Jacobson partnered with hotel developer Jay Sarno to build Caesars Palace, which opened in 1966. Jacobson served as president of Caesars until 1969, when it was sold to Clifford and Stewart Perlman of the Miami-based Lum's restaurant chain.
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