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Interview with William John Mayer, July 20, 2004

Date

2004-07-20

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Narrator affiliation: Electrical Engineer; Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Interview with Clifford Olsen, September 20, 2004

Date

2004-09-20

Description

Narrator affiliation: Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Interview with NDE Immersion Group, January 13, 2006

Date

2006-01-13

Description

Narrator affiliation: Peace Studies, Nevada Desert Experience

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Interview with Erik Thompson, March 4, 2006

Date

2006-03-04

Description

Narrator affiliation: Board of Trustees, Nevada Desert Experience

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Nympha Comacchio oral history interview: transcript

Date

2022-05-09

Description

Oral history with Nympha Comacchio conducted by Cecilia Winchell and Stefani Evans on May 09, 2022 for the Reflections: the Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. In this interview, Comacchio recalls her childhood in the Philippines and growing up in a large family. After attending elementary school, Comacchio immediately went to work on her father's lumber farm, performing manual labor until she was seventeen. Later, she recalls finding employment as a seamstress in Manila, where she met her first husband when she left to work in Saudi Arabia for better pay. Comacchio describes how she was able to receive a student visa to finally immigrate to the United States, where she first arrived in California. Eventually, after meeting her second husband and hearing about housing prices in Las Vegas, Nevada, they purchased a house in the city in 2000. After briefly working for the New Frontier, Comacchio began working for the Wynn and Encore, where she found out about the Culinary Workers Union and became more active in that organization. Throughout the rest of the interview, Comacchio touches on the responsibilities of being a housekeeper, the current challenges they face, and how she feels about the growing AAPI population in southern Nevada.

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