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Transcript of interview with Connie Hill Sheldon by Claytee White, February 11, 2013

Date

2013-02-11

Description

Connie Hill Sheldon and her identical twin, Billie, also were members of Rancho High School 's first graduating class of 1962. Connie and Billie were born in 1944 in Oklahoma and spent their early years in southern California before moving to Las Vegas in 1956 with their mother, brother, and stepfather, Gerald Elmore. In Las Vegas Connie and her siblings attended Sunrise Acres Elementary School before going to Rancho, and the family was active with Homesite Baptist Church. While she was at Rancho Connie worked at the Huntridge Theater, and she continued working there after she graduated. In 1968 Connie married fellow Rancho '62 classmate Clyde Sheldon in Goldfield, Nevada. At the time of their marriage Clyde was an active-duty Marine. Over the course of his twenty-year USMC career the Sheldons lived in several places, but following his 1983 retirement they returned to Las Vegas and then moved to Pahrump. In this interview Connie particularly focuses on military life in New Yo

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Interview with Nick C. Aquilina, June 25, 2004

Date

2004-06-25

Description

Narrator affiliation: Manager, Department of Energy Nevada Operations Office (NVOO)

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Interview with Laurie Joe (L. Joe) Deal, September 27, 2005

Date

2005-09-27

Description

Narrator affiliation: Director, Atomic Energy Commission Civil Effects Group

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Interview with Leslie Ray Hill, February 17, 2006

Date

2006-02-17

Description

Narrator affiliation: Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories

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Book, The Marshall Plan, by Jack Sheehan, 2013

Date

2013

Description

Art Marshall is one of the founders of the Marshall-Rousso chain of women's dress shops that started in casinos in Las Vegas. He is also a banker, a member of the Nevada Gaming Commission, is active in the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, is an art collector, and is a philanthopist, especially for Jewish faith-based causes and for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Interview with John S. Coogan, May 1, 2008

Date

2008-05-01

Description

Narrator affiliation: Health Physicist, Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECo), Public Health Service (USPHS), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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Clarence Stay, Jr. real estate documents

Date

1960 to 1969

Archival Collection

Description

Clarence Stay, Jr. real estate documents

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Joseph Kine interview, March 02, 1976: transcript

Date

1976-03-02

Description

On March 2, 1976, collector Debbie Nesbit interviewed Joseph Kine (born November 16th, 1906 in Elkhart, Iowa) in his home in Boulder City, Nevada. In this interview, Mr. Kine discusses working at Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) as a high scaler. He also speaks about living in Boulder City in its very beginnings as a town.

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Transcript of interview with Donald E. Klinker by Barbara Fidelman, February 13, 1975

Date

1975-02-13

Description

On February 13, 1975, Barbara Fidelman interviewed former Caesar’s Palace cage manager, Donald E. Klinkner (born November 28th, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) in his home about his life and perspectives on Southern Nevada. The two discuss the different recreational activities that Klinker participated in during the fifties and sixties. The interview concludes with Klinkner explaining the misconceptions that tourists have about Las Vegas, Nevada.

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