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File
Archival Collection
UNLV Libraries Collection of Regional History Files
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Collection Number: MS-00547
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Regional History Files
Box/Folder: Box 22
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Regional History Files
Box/Folder: Box 22
Archival Component
Female go-go dancers at Gelo's Sports Club (Gelo's Lounge) grand opening, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital image
Date
1965-11-01
Archival Collection
Description
From the Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263) -- LGBTQ+ events and organizations in Las Vegas, Nevada -- Digital images file. Notes from the donor, Dennis McBride: Gelo's Sports Club became a gay bar known as Gelo's Lounge in about 1980. This photograph belongs to the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas [Mitchell photograph no. VR 3264 L].
Image
World AIDS day Nevada AIDS vigil flyer
Date
1995-11-30 to 1995-12-03
Archival Collection
Description
From the Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada (MS-00802) -- Alphabetical research files -- AIDS: Organizations: Names Project [AIDS quilt] file.
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Transcript of interview with Norma Friedman by Barbara Tabach, November 19, 2015 and April 06, 2016
Date
2015-11-19 to 2016-04-06
Archival Collection
Description
It was a scorching Fourth of July, when Norma (n?e Adler) and Leon Friedman rolled into their new home of Las Vegas in 1973. Nevertheless, they were content with leaving Gary, Indiana behind, and starting fresh with the family?s new ownership of Walker Furniture. Norma recalls her first stop in checking out Las Vegas was to visit the synagogue ? Temple Beth Sholom being the only option. Her oldest son would soon become a bar mitzvah. Feeling good about that, she and her sister-in-law who was also relocating to Las Vegas for the furniture business, searched for new homes. Norma settled into the community through volunteer work as well as through employment outside the family business. She worked in the real estate briefly and in a jewelry store at the Dunes. A natural organizer, she immersed herself in religious and civic organizations including the Jewish Federation, Jewish Family Service Agency, and volunteering at Selma Bartlett Elementary School in Henderson. Norma shares stories of her Jewish heritage and upbringing in Pittsburgh, the decision to move to Las Vegas, making fast friendships during her life in Las Vegas and the joy she has in traveling the world with Leon, who passed in 2004. In 2017, Norma was honored by the Jewish Family Service Agency.
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