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Martinez, Jose Leonardo, 1971-
For Leonardo Martinez, the United States was never meant to be a destination—it was merely a short stop along the way as he awaited the day he could safely return to his family in El Salvador. Now a man who embraces the occasional Big Mac from McDonalds but never turns away a Salvadoran pupusa, Leonardo has embraced both places as home with memories that took him from his humble upbringings in Santa Lucía to the bright lights of the city of Las Vegas.
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Smith, Samuel, 1943-
Samuel Smith was born July 26, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Smith moved to New York to finish high school, and stayed in the city to become a police officer. He stayed there until 1978, when he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. He took a job as an inspector with the fire department, and remained in that position until he retired in 2003.
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Bartlett, David, 1940-
David Bartlett’s Nevada roots run far and deep. He was born in Las Vegas in 1940 (son to Fred Bartlett), but his family moved to Reno when David was in grade school. A great joy was for him to return to Las Vegas and spend time with both sets of grandparents: David and Julia Lorenzi (maternal) and Byron and Dessa Bartlett (paternal). In local history, both families represent the early entrepreneurship and craftsmanship of residents: from the Bartlett Brothers Hardware to Grandfather Lorenzi’s stonework that still graces such landmarks as the grottos at St.
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Hausch, Mary, 1949-
Mary Hausch was born September of 1949 in Akron, Ohio. Hausch arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada during a spring vacation with four friends. The spontaneity of the trip and her enjoyment of the weather resulted in her applying for, and getting, a reporter position at the Las Vegas Review- Journal (R-J). For the next nineteen years, she worked her way up the newspaper ladder, covered local education issues that included desegregation, a groundbreaking series of Prisoners of War- Missing in Action war stories, and the Nevada legislature.
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Las Vegas Art League
Lucille Bruner founded the Las Vegas Art League in 1950 after she moved to the city from Santa Fe, New Mexico. When the City of Las Vegas bought the Twin Lakes Lodge in what is now Lorenzi Park in Las Vegas, Nevada the Las Vegas Art League requested and obtained three buildings in which to teach and display art. The Art League became the Las Vegas Art Museum (LVAM) n 1974.
The Las Vegas Art Museum relocated to the Sahara West Library and Fine Art Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1997. They remained in operation until 2009.
Corporate Body
Newsletters, 2012
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southwest Oral History Association Records
Box/Folder: Box 13
Archival Component
Photographs, 2012
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southwest Oral History Association Records
Box/Folder: Box 13
Archival Component