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Expense form 30, San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, Las Vegas (Nev.), July 1, 1909

Date

1909-07-01

Archival Collection

Description

Form 30 of San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company. Expense request submitted on July 1, 1909 by W. H. Bancroft, signed by J. Ross Clark; approved by E. G. Tilton on July 12, 1909. All signatures are stamped. Request is approval of funds to construct 20 four-room and 20 five-room employee cottages. The cottages were built by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company for employees of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. This initial request for construction of 40 dwellings would be followed by 24 more for a total of 64. E. G. Tilton was the chief engineer for the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company. W. H. Bancroft was the first vice president of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company. J. Ross Clark was the second vice president of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company.

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Irwin Molasky oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01310

Abstract

Oral history interview with Irwin Molasky conducted by A. D. Hopkins on June 08, 1999 for the Las Vegas Review-Journal First 100 Oral History Project. In the interview, Molasky discusses his early life in Ohio and moving around the United States before settling in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1951. He then talks about his company, the Molasky Group of Companies, and projects the company had been associated with. One project Molasky focuses on is the design and opening of Sunrise Hospital in 1958, located in Las Vegas. He recalls Nevada Senator Howard Cannon cutting the ribbon for the hospital's opening, as well as business partners for the hospital including Allard Rowan, Morris Barney "Moe" Dalitz, and Roy Cohn. Other Las Vegas projects Molasky discusses include the Boulevard Mall, Paradise Palms housing community, and the Bank of America Plaza near Fremont Street. Molasky also talks about a vocational outreach project he helped develop at the Irwin & Susan Molasky Junior High School. Lastly, Molasky talks about his personal hobbies and Las Vegas's urban growth.

Archival Collection

Photographs and Maps, undated, 1978

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Series

Scope and Contents

The Photographs and Maps Series (undated, 1978) consists of color and black-and-white photographs during the appraisal process. It also contains plat maps of Las Vegas, Nevada with notes about sales data.

Archival Collection

Elmo C. Bruner Architectural and Real Estate Appraisal Records
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Collection Number: MS-00177
Collection Name: Elmo C. Bruner Architectural and Real Estate Appraisal Records
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Fong, Wing, 204-206 No. 13th St.; 232 No. 20th St.; 1211 So. 10th St.; 2000 block E. Charleston Blvd.; 5 acres north of Charleston Blvd., west of Rainbow Blvd.; 2.5 acres between Sunset Rd. and Warm Springs Rd., at intersection of Maule Ave. and Gillespie St., 1953-1973

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File

Archival Collection

Elmo C. Bruner Architectural and Real Estate Appraisal Records
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Collection Number: MS-00177
Collection Name: Elmo C. Bruner Architectural and Real Estate Appraisal Records
Box/Folder: Box 12

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Mindy Unger-Wadkins oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02479

Abstract

Oral history interview with Mindy Unger-Wadkins conducted by Barbara Tabach on October 28, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Unger-Wadkins discusses her childhood in Las Vegas, Nevada, working in Yucca Mountain, Nevada Power, land development with her brothers, and her leadership in the Jewish community.

Archival Collection

Unger, Robert G. "Bob"

Bob Unger is a businessman and real estate developer in Henderson, Nevada. A long-time resident of the Las Vegas Valley, Unger attended Valley High School and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. After attending Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, California, Unger practiced law in Las Vegas from 1977 to 1989. He represented business on the Strip and in real estate before undertaking his own development projects. He is president of Unger Development and is responsible for the Showcase Mall on the Las Vegas Strip and the Tuscany neighborhood in Henderson.

Person

Behar, Maurice Halfon, 1938-

Maurice “Maury” Halfon Behar was born August 27, 1938 in Biarritz, France and spent his early childhood in Bayonne, France. On January 12, 1944, the Nazis took his parents from their home, but Behar was left behind due to a bout with measles. He was then cared for by his neighbor, Marie Cazous, passing as her son, until he was adopted by relatives from the United States and moved to New York City, New York in 1947.

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Escrow instructions to the First National Bank of Nevada regarding the transfer of Las Vegas water production from the Union Pacific Railroad to the Las Vegas Valley Water District, June 21, 1954

Date

1954-06-21

Archival Collection

Description

Escrow instructions for the transfer of Las Vegas water production from the Union Pacific Railroad to the Las Vegas Valley Water District. Contract between the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, the Union Pacific Railroad, and the Las Vegas Land and Water Company.

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