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Photograph showing a production of Pzazz! 70 staged by Donn Arden, Desert Inn Hotel, Las Vegas, circa 1970

Date

1969 to 1971

Archival Collection

Description

On a production stage decorated with gold platforms and white fog, entertainers perform Act 2: "Hollywood and All That Jazz," Scene 2: "The Golden Galaxy" of the show Pzazz! 70 staged by Donn Arden at the Desert Inn Hotel, Las Vegas. Male and female performers pose across the stage as a crowd of people watch from below. While the female dancers are dressed in sparkling, gold two-piece costumes dripping with strings of silver beads and a matching pink headpieces, the male performers are wrapped in twinkling strings of gold beads with a matching gold g-strings and pink capes.
Show Name: Pzazz! 70
Performance Name: Hollywood and All That Jazz: The Golden Galaxy

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Letter from F. H. Knickerbocker to A. L. Coey, June 6, 1933

Date

1933-06-06

Archival Collection

Description

After the discovery of a dead man in a swimming hole on Union Pacific property, the removal of the swimming hole was suggested.

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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to J. P. Mack (Los Angeles), March 11, 1939

Date

1939-03-11

Archival Collection

Description

Walter Bracken urging the Union Pacific Railroad Company that serious maintenance needs to be made to a wooden pipeline which was leaking badly in numerous places with summer quickly approaching.

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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to J. P. Mack (Los Angeles), June 10, 1939

Date

1939-06-10

Archival Collection

Description

Walter Bracken urging the Union Pacific Railroad to pay serious attention to maintaining a wooden pipeline, which was leaking badly in numerous places in summer. The reservoir level was at seven feet and falling.

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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to J. P. Mack (Los Angeles), June 12, 1939

Date

1939-06-12

Archival Collection

Description

Telegram informing that the Las Vegas Land and Water Company crew repaired 108 holes in their main pipeline and gained a foot of water in the reservoir overnight.

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Letter from E. E. Cunningham (Yermo, Cal.) to J. P. Mack, November 27, 1930

Date

1930-11-27

Archival Collection

Description

Discussion of selling water to people living next to the Arden Pipeline, provided they were not using the water to manufacture moonshine.

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