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Stardust Hotel and Casino bomb scare: video
Date
1996-02-05
Archival Collection
Description
Local news reports of The Stardust Hotel/Casino evacuated due to a bomb threat and subsequent scare of a suspicious package found in the poker room on February 5, 1996. The video consists of 12 segments from three different stations. Includes soundbites from Las Vegas Metro Police Sergeant Greg McGurdy that the suspicious package was not an explosive device, followed by brief soundbite from bystander. Includes aerial footage of the Stardust and reporters on the scene. Original media VHS, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486. From the Stardust Resort and Casino Records (MS-00515) -- Photographs and audiovisual material -- Digitized audiovisual material file.
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New Years Eve firework celebrations in Las Vegas: video
Date
2000-12-31 to 2001-01-01
Archival Collection
Description
Aerial footage from local Las Vegas, Nevada news stations of New Years Eve fireworks going off along Las Vegas Boulevard. Various songs play over the video footage; for other videos you can hear crowds cheering, fireworks erupting, and music playing in the distance. The Stardust Hotel is featured in most of the videos. Final segment is an actual newsbroadcast segment that also shows Times Square in New York City. Original media VHS, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486. From the Stardust Resort and Casino Records (MS-00515) -- Photographs and audiovisual material -- Digitized audiovisual material file.
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Photograph of a shack house in West Las Vegas, located between Van Buren Avenue and the North Project Boundary, and H and J Streets, Las Vegas, Nevada, October, 1957
Date
1957-10
Archival Collection
Description
A shack house located between Van Buren Avenue and the North Project Boundary, and H and J Streets, West Las Vegas, Nevada. There is a shell of an old school bus under a roof extension that has been fitted with an air conditioner. A sign leaning against a metal tank that is located under the air conditioner reads "8." The photograph was taken by Henry Elder, City Building Inspector, October, 1957. Refer to photo #0310 0058 (pho017999) for an aerial view of the area.
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Topographic map of the northeast quadrangle of the metropolitan Las Vegas, Nevada area, 1967
Date
1967
Description
Scale 1:24,000 ; polyconic proj. (W 115°730--W 115°0000/N 36°1500--N 36°730) ; 1 map : col. ; 58 x 47 cm ; 7.5 minute series (topographic) ; Relief shown by contours and spot heights ; Filing title: Las Vegas NE, Nev ; "AMS 2956 II NE--Series V896." ; Contour interval 20 feet ; "Topography by photogrammetric methods from aerial photographs taken 1965. Field checked 1967." ;Includes quadrangle location map ; Interior--Geological Survey
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