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Jewish Federation correspondence, meeting minutes, and other records, item 41

Description

Annual report for the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, January 1990-June 1991.

Scrapbook pages from the Las Vegas Chapter of Hadassah, 1968-1969

Date

1968 to 1969

Description

This folder contains loose scrapbook pages documenting the years 1968 and 1969 for the Las Vegas Chapter of Hadassah. The pages hold photographs, pamphlets, invitations, newspaper clippings and other ephemera about the active chapter.

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Las Vegas Stadium site pre-construction, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-05-10

Description

The corner of Polaris Avenue and Russel Road is slated to see monumental change in the coming years as the Las Vegas Stadium project is slated for its northeast corner.

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Eric Mendoza oral history interview: transcript

Date

2021-11-29

Description

Oral history interview with Eric Mendoza conducted by Holly O'Donnell on November 29, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. In this interview, Eric Mendoza shares his family's chain migration history from Manila, Philippines to the United States and his difficult immigration and naturalization process once arriving in America in 1996. He talks about what brought him to live in Las Vegas, Nevada, his education and professional pursuits, what his life is like in the United States compared to that of the Philippines, and the lives of his eight siblings. Eric Mendoza discusses the historical past of the Philippines, the infrastructure in place there, and government corruption. He also speaks to Filipino traditions and festivals, food and customs, his cultural identity, and assimilating to American culture.

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Marcelina Sandusky standing in backyard located within the original Sunrise Acres community with the water tower visible in the background: photographic print

Date

1983 to 1986

Description

Around the turn of the century, Ramon Sanchez emigrated from Spain to the United States where he became a rancher in Tremonita, New Mexico. Many years later, his son, Cesario, migrated to Liberal, Kansas, to work on the railroad. It was there that his daughter, Marcelina, pictured above, was born and raised and where she eventually met and married her musician husband, Gene Sandusky. In 1941, the Sanduskys moved to Las Vegas where they settled in a new housing tract called Sunrise Acres. Some 45 years later, Mrs. Sandusky stands in her back yard with the original Sunrise Acres community well and water tower looming prominently in the background. Presently, Mrs. Sandusky is working hard to gather the history of that still cohesive neighborhood, one of the earliest in Las Vegas.

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