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Arrangement note: Series V. Glass slidesSite name: Carriers' Building and Common Laborers Union, Local 872 (building) (Las Vegas, Nev.)

Arrangement note: Series V. Glass slidesSite name: Carriers' Building and Common Laborers Union, Local 872 (building) (Las Vegas, Nev.)

Narrator affiliation: Operations Mining Superintendent, Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECo)

Narrator affiliation: Special Assistant Manager, U.S. Department of Energy

Location photos taken by Maggie Mancuso for production of the 1995 motion picture "Casino." Five photographs taped together to create panoramic view of residential home at 1801 Atlantic St., Las Vegas, Nevada, summer 1994. 

Address: 1801 Atlantic St.

Architecture Period: Mid-Century Modernist

Along with the information is this card entitled "Record Breaker." It reads: "First product of Hughes Aircraft Company was Howard Hughes' uniquely designed H-1. Experts said it was farther ahead of its time than any plane built since the Wright brothers'. In 1935 Hughes flew the H-1 to a world's land plane speed record of 352 mph, many years before any military pursuit planes attained this speed, and in 1937 Hughes flew the H-1 from Los Angeles to New York in seven hours, 28 minutes, a record which stood for eight years. The H-1 was the first plane with a smooth metal surface, leading edge air duct intakes, jet thrust exhaust, bell-shaped cowling, drooping ailerons, and the first to have a power-driven retractable landing gear. -0- "