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Corporate profile brochures for the Summa Corporation, 1990 and 1993

Date

1990
1993

Archival Collection

Description

These corporate profiles include the history of the Summa Corporation as a descendant of the Sharp-Hughes Tool Company.

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Transcript of interview with Joyce Mack by Barbara Tabach, February 23, 2015

Date

2015-02-23

Archival Collection

Description

In this interview, Joyce Mack discusses meeting her husband, Jerry Mack, in Los Angeles,their early life as a couple, and moving to Las Vegas at the suggestion of Jerry's father, Nate Mack. She discusses how Jerry met Parry Thomas and their banking and real estate investments. Mrs. Mack talks about the opening of the Thomas and Mack Center at UNLV, and the development of the strip hotels, and discusses her children.

Joyce Mack: wife to Jerry Mack and matriarch of one of the most influential families of Las Vegas history. During this oral history conversation, she begins by tracing her family ancestry from Kiev to New York to Omaha and then Los Angeles, where she was born and raised. At a UCLA fraternity party in the early 1940s, a teenage Joyce Rosenberg was swept off her feet by her older brother's friend Jerry Mack. Jerry was from Boulder City, Nevada and had attended school in Las Vegas. In 1946, the couple married and took an extended honeymoon throughout the United States and Cuba. Soon afterwards, Jerry's father Nate Mack, a businessman and real estate developer encouraged the newlyweds to come to Las Vegas. She tells of Jerry sharing his vision of the valley's future. Thus began a successful journey that traverses decades of Las Vegas history and breathtaking growth in which the Macks were active participants and leaders. Joyce recalls the people the first met, who they raised their children side-by-side with and became lasting friends. These people were other Las Vegas pioneers including the Greenspuns and mostly importantly her husband's partnership with Parry Thomas which created the Bank of Las Vegas. It was their partnership she explains that reduced the presence of the mob element. As members of the small Jewish community of the late 1940s, the Macks would participate in the founding of Temple Beth Sholom.

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Photographs of Hangar Seven at Paradise Aviation, approximately 2008

Date

2008

Archival Collection

Description

This group of photographs shows the exterior of Hangar Seven used for private aircraft in Paradise, Nev.

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Transcript of interview with Sharon Walker by Barbara Tabach, October 8, 2014

Date

2014-10-08

Description

Sharon Walker is a real estate investor, retired stockbroker and former loan officer. She was born on December 8, 1949 in Toledo, Ohio, and moved to Las Vegas with her family in 1963, where they started Walker Furniture, a store which they later sold to the Alterwitz family. Sharon's father, Julius Walker, was also in the casino business, becoming an owner of the El Cortez Hotel and Casino with Jackie Gaughan. Her mother, Anne Walker was a founding member of the first local Hadassah, The Women?s Zionist Organization. Sharon continues the family tradition of being active in Hadassah as well as being a Board Member of Jewish Family Service Agency. In November 2014 she was an honoree of Hadassah Leadership. In this interview, Sharon describes her adolescence in Las Vegas and the differences in culture as compared to her childhood in Toledo, Ohio. She also recalls the Walker Furniture business, her father?s careers, and her uncles Ed ?E? Walker and Lou ?Paddock? Walker.

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Audio clip from interview with Mark Fine, November 18, 2014

Date

2014-11-18

Archival Collection

Description

Part of an interview with Mark Fine on November 18, 2014. In this clip, Fine talks his relationship with his former father-in-law, Hank Greenspun.

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Photographs of Jewish Federation Land Acquisition Conference, 1999

Date

1999

Archival Collection

Description

Photographs of the Jewish Federation Land Acquisition conference, including site plans.

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Photographs of Molasky Corporate Center, approximately 2008

Date

2008

Archival Collection

Description

These photographs show the exterior and interior of Molasky Center.

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Video, Park Towers at Hughes Center: The One Address in Las Vegas, circa 2000

Date

2000

Archival Collection

Description

Marketing production for Park Towers at Hughes Center, a highrise residential complex in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Moving Image

Photograph of Levy Realty Ext. 2 buildings, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1960s-1970s

Date

1960 to 1979

Archival Collection

Description

An exterior view of Levy Realty Ext. 2 buildings in Las Vegas, Nevada. 120mm negative.

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Video, News 13 segment on the growth of Jewish population in Las Vegas, March 22, 1999

Date

1999-03-22

Archival Collection

Description

Segment from News 13 on the Jewish community in Las Vegas and Henderson, Nevada.

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