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Bet Knesset Bamidbar

Congregation Bet Knesset Bamidbar or ‘Congregation in the Desert” is the largest age 50-and-over Jewish congregation in the Las Vegas Valley. It was founded in 1990 and meets in Sun City, Summerlin.  BKB is a traditional reform temple.
 
With services in the heart of community, BKB grew under the leadership of Rabbi Hershel Brooks. Its membership peaked to over 1,100 members in 1999.

Audio clip of an inteview with Chris Ramirez by Wendy Starkweather on October 2, 2013.

Date

2013-10-02

Archival Collection

Chris Ramirez and Greg Ramirez oral history interview

Description

Chris talks about living in Las Vegas since he was 6 months old. He also talks about starting his own valet parking company while he was in college. Later Chris talks about Silver State Film Productions, a film company he founded. The schools Chris attended during his childhood were located in Las Vegas, Nevada at that time. Film producer Chris Ramirez moved from Colorado to the east side of Las Vegas in 1973, when he was six months old. Son of Greg Ramirez, owner and founder of Viva Zapatas restaurants, Chris and his family moved to Rancho Bel Air, where he completed his school years, in about 1980. Chris and other Clark County School District students of his age participated in a school desegregation program unique to Las Vegas. After completing fifth grade at Howard Wasden Elementary School, Chris and his classmates rode a bus for one year to Mabel Hoggard Sixth Grade Center in North Las Vegas. After sixth grade he attended Hyde Park Middle School and Bishop Gorman High School. Chris’s family and school connections combined with the barter culture in Las Vegas combined to create an emphasis on “who you know” rather than “what you know.” Chris formed his film companies on the basis of his Las Vegas knowledge and his contacts and credits Las Vegas for allowing him to be in the right place at the right time to meet and work with celebrities and become an entrepreneur. Chris enjoys the urban excitement of living, doing business, and participating in the revitalization of downtown Las Vegas.

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Photographs of La Bayou Casino, Las Vegas (Nev.), June 24, 2016

Date

2016-06-24 to 2017-09-08

Archival Collection

Southern Nevada Neon Survey Records

Description

The permanently closed Labayou Casino sits at 15 Fremont Street at the Fremont Street Experience. Information about the sign is available in the Southern Nevada Neon Survery Data Sheet.
Site address: 15 Fremont St
Sign owner: Derek Stevens
Sign details: Opened 1920 as Northern Club By Mayme Stocker. 1943-1960 operated as a few different businesses. 1970 opened as The Coin Castle, 1999 was renovated and opened as La Bayou, 2016 bought by Derek Stevens and torn down.
Sign condition: No longer there
Sign form: Architectural sign
Sign-specific description: Three neon signs site on top of a shack made of wood and sheet metal that is meant to represent something that might be seen in Louisiana. Two windows with green shutters are "open" with T.V. screens inside. Two neon signs sit at the top of the shack that spell out La Bayou in red neon and the cabinet is trimmed with purple neon. At the front of the property, above the entry, is a red neon sign that says "26 New Orleans Daiquiris."
Sign - type of display: Neon and incandescent
Sign - media: Steel, fiberglass
Sign environment: Part of the Fremont Street Experience, next to Golden Gate Casino
Sign - date of installation: c. 1999
Sign - thematic influences: The property has a theme element, which was popular of casinos of Las Vegas in the 1990s.
Sign - artistic significance: Property was decorated with a Louisiana inspired bayou, swamp motif.
Survey - research locations: Newspapers
Survey - research notes: https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/mermaids-la-bayou-and-glitter-gulch-come-to-a-close-on-fremont-photos/ https://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/jun/25/patrons-say-farewell-to-mermaids-and-la-bayou-in-d/ http://classiclasvegas.squarespace.com/downtown-history/?currentPage=3
Survey - other remarks: Property was razed 2016
Surveyor: Wyatt Currie-Diamond
Survey - date completed: 2017-09-08
Sign keywords: Architectural; Neon; Incandescent; Steel; Fiberglass

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, December 7, 1976

Date

1976-12-07

Archival Collection

Consolidated Students of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Records

Description

Agenda and meeting minutes for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Senate. CSUN Session 5 Meeting Minutes and Agendas.

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Letter from Francis M. Bunker and John M. Bunker's Mother, Bunkerville, Nevada to John M. Bunker

Date

1894-09-29

Archival Collection

Syphus-Bunker Papers

Description

From the Syphus-Bunker Papers (MS-00169). The folder contains an original handwritten letter, a typed transcription of the same letter, and a copy of original letter attached.

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Purchase offer from Las Vegas Valley Water District to Union Pacific Railroad Company, Salt Lake Railroad Company, and Las Vegas Land and Water Company, October 15, 1952

Date

1952-10-15

Archival Collection

Union Pacific Railroad Collection

Description

$2,500,000.00 offer from the Las Vegas Valley Water District to purchase all water production lands and facilities, with exceptions noted that were owned by the Union Pacific Railroad Company and subsidiaries.

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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Theta Theta Omega Chapter connections committee reports

Date

2001-02-09
2002-03-02

Archival Collection

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Theta Theta Omega Chapter Records

Description

From the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Theta Theta Omega Chapter Records (MS-01014) -- Chapter records file.

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