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Helen Anderson and Karen Walker oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Helen Anderson and Karen Walker conducted by Claytee D. White and Barbara Tabach on February 21, 2014 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. Anderson and her mother, Walker, discuss owning Hamburger Heaven, a Westside-famed restaurant, and the West Las Vegas, Nevada community changes over the years.
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Michael Saltman oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Michael Saltman conducted by Barbara Tabach on December 16, 2014 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Saltman talks about doing business in Las Vegas, Nevada over the years, being Jewish, his wife Sonja serving on the Anti-Defamation League, and other topics pertaining to him being a businessman.
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Transcript of interview with Michael J. Montandon by Stefani Evans and Claytee D. White, September 22 & October 4, 2016
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Mike Montandon, former Arizonan and former three-term mayor of the City of North Las Vegas (1997-2009), is a natural storyteller. As he recalls municipal governance during a period of record-breaking growth, he talks of forming relationships with developers, legislators, and other municipalities; he speaks to land use, open space, parks, trails, conservation and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act (SNPLMA). He shares histories and stories of the Becker family's role in developing Clark County, of the Combs family's North Las Vegas pig farm; of the drama that routinely characterized BLM land auctions, and of why North Las Vegas spent millions of dollars to build its own sewage treatment plant. The guy who never ran for office in high school or college moved to North Las Vegas in 1992 and four years later was elected as mayor of one of the nation's fastest-growing cities. He ran because he realized the City was populated with people just l
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Audio clip from interview with Andy Katz, February 16, 2016
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In this clip, Andy Katz discusses the programs at Manpower, an employment agency franchise that his parents established in Las Vegas in the 1960s, and still exists today. Katz became involved at an early age, and talks about employment opportunities he had growing up.
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Newspaper clipping, NLV honoring Goynes for community contributions, Las Vegas Sun, June 19-21, 1998
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Article by Adrienne Packer for Las Vegas Sun lauding the community contributions of Theron Goynes, dated June 19-21, 1998.
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Transcript of Interview with Lovell Gaines, July 1, 2009
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Lovell Gaines moved to Las Vegas from Reno in 1975, becoming the local NAACP President in early 1980s. Lovell worked at the Nevada Department of Corrections for over 30 years.
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John Charles Fremont: drawing
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Georgia Mae Thompson with her eleven children: photographpic print
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Photograph of Cyril Wengert, circa 1919
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