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CD cover, Back to the Old School, featuring Hamburger Heaven sign, undated
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"Back to the Old School" audio CD cover featuring Hamburger Heaven sign.
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Newspaper clipping, Training is best bet in managing disasters, Las Vegas Review-Journal (?), July 16, 2011
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Las Vegas Review Journal article quotes Greg McCurdy about local FEMA disaster training and plans.
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Robin Greenspun oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Robin Greenspun conducted by Barbara Tabach on February 09, 2017 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview, Greenspun discusses her family background and growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada. She talks about her early interest in the arts, working in television productions, and becoming a film director.
Archival Collection
Transcript of interview with JoNell Thomas by Claytee White, January 12, 2010
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JoNell Thomas grew up in a large Utah family, went to Utah State and law school at University of Utah. She moved to Nevada in 1992; first as with the Nevada Supreme Court and then as a staff attorney with a Las Vegas firm, and currently is an attorney with the Clark County Special Public Defender's office. She and her husband, Billy Logan and their twin daughters have lived in the John S. Park Neighborhood since 2001. Their residence was constructed in 1956 on a large corner lot with lots of trees and a fifty-year-old swimming pool. JoNell offers her observations on a variety of JSP events: Stratosphere's failed rollercoaster across the Strip idea; the proposed high-rise complexes; the Monorail lack of convenience to locals; effects of dropping home prices and downturn of economy; the homeless population and closing of Circle Park. She helped create the early online community called the Downtown Neighbors website which provided information regarding , part activist, part pra
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Mamie Buettner oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Mamie Buettner conducted by Gertrude Anne Moore on February 21, 1975 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. During the interview Buettner discusses the history of Las Vegas, Nevada and offers insight into the day-to-day life of a Las Vegas old timer.
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Donald Edward Borsack oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Donald Edward Borsack conducted by Stephen Compan on March 02, 1980 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. During this interview Borsack discusses the growth of Nevada, and sports and recreation in the early days, including Nevada’s first professional baseball team.
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Dr. John E. Craddock oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Dr. John E. Craddock conducted by Melody Craddock on April 10, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview John Craddock discusses the development of Twin Lakes and Lorenzi Park, atomic testing, hunting in Nevada, and the development of different local airports.
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John Wittwer oral history interview
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Oral history interview with John Wittwer conducted by Perry Kaufman on May 17, 1972 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Kaufman discusses living in Santa Clara, Utah and describes families from Switzerland migrating there as converts to the Latter-Day Saints Church.
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