Black and white image of Dean Martin and Joey Bishop at the "Ocean's 11" premiere in front of The Fremont Theatre. Site Name: Fremont Theatre (Las Vegas, Nev.) Street Address: Fremont Street
Black and white image of Dean Martin and an unidentified man at the "Ocean's 11" premiere in front of The Fremont Theatre. Site Name: Fremont Theatre (Las Vegas, Nev.) Street Address: Fremont Street
The poster reads: "Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, Georgia Chakiris, France Nuyen, and James Darren 'Diamond Head' Next Attraction Fremont Theatre." Site Name: Fremont Theatre (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Black and white image of the Palace Theatre (later changed to the Guild Theatre). The marquee was advertising Yul Brynner and Gary Cooper, Solomon and Heba, and Wreck of the Mary Deare. A second sign was advertising, "cooled by refrigeration." Site Name: Palace Theatre (Las Vegas, Nev.)
A man wearing a sign advertising Guild Theatre. The sign reads: "Now Showing Guild Theatre 'The Gay Deceivers' in Simply Devine Color." Site Name: Guild Theatre (Las Vegas, Nev.)
A 12-photograph proof sheet of several Minsky's cast members displaying costumes in various poses. The male dancers are wearing dark pants, white shirts, and neckerchiefs. Many of the female dancers are wearing bikini-style costumes with a mirror-like reflective tile skirt, white knee boots, and white hats. One female dancers is wearing a long evening gown.
The town of Lucky Boy was born as a result of the discovery of lead-silver ore in the vicinity in 1906. The camp experienced a boom in 1908 when exploration opened a number of rich veins in the district. Lucky Boy's population peaked in the 1910 at over 800, then declined rapidly as the high grade was mined out. The mines produced ore on a small scale through the 1950s.
A Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad train takes on water and fuel at Millers, NV, winter, 1933. "The winter of '33 was one of the most severe recorded in central Nevada up to that time. Snow isolated many outlying communities for weeks at a time and temperatures dropped to the -30s. On a number of occasions the trains were marooned in the snow drifts between Millers, Tonopah and Goldfield and had to be dug out by hand."