Oral history interview with Julie Brinkerhoff-Jacobs conducted by Stefani Evans on September 30, 2016 for the Building Las Vegas Oral History Project. Brinkerhoff-Jacobs talks about her childhood in Southern California and Europe, the history of Lifescapes International, how she came into the business, and how the company came to do most of the major projects on Las Vegas, Nevada Strip as well as other Clark County locations.
Jerry Dye, librarian; Alice Brown, at left; and Mrs. Gordon (Goodie) Murphy, at right, in the library office in Grant Hall at Nevada Southern University (NSU).
A picture of the exterior of the North Las Vegas City Hall its and Christmas decorations. The decorations were put up by North Las Vegas Fire Department.
Note: Coat of arms with motto "Est voluntas Dei" and a greyhound and primroses (the Coates family crest) at top left of cover. "Table water from Bethsaida Springs." Restaurant: The Coates Location: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
When Julie Brinkerhoff-Jacobs talks about the landscape architecture firm her parents, Barbara and Don Brinkerhoff, began in their home in 1958, she brightens and leans in. Since joining her parents’ firm in 1982, Julie gradually assumed responsibility for Lifescapes International’s sales, marketing, financial management, and strategic planning and serves as President and Chief Financial Officer. Here, Brinkerhoff-Jacobs talks of her life before joining and outside of Lifescapes: her family; her youth; her charity, HomeAid; her leadership activities; and her personal interests. Her focus, though, is Lifescapes and the Las Vegas people and the iconic projects that not only altered the ways that visitors perceive Southern Nevada but also changed the business of Lifescapes. “Not just in Las Vegas, but around the world people hire us because of what we've done in Las Vegas.” For Julie, one of the greatest joys of working alongside her parents was discovering them as peers—learning to know them as two people who “chose to live an incredibly artistic life together.” Her mother passed in 2014, but Julie and her father continue to work with and learn from each other.
From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). The slide reads: "Comparison of the cumulative estimated dose with diagnostic x-rays 1951 to 1958.